{"id":411,"date":"2016-10-24T03:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/?p=411"},"modified":"2016-10-24T03:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:02:07","slug":"this-week-in-food-102316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/2016\/10\/24\/this-week-in-food-102316\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Food (10\/23\/16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These past two weeks have flown by! But we are back, well-rested, and ready for a second half of the semester filled with food and fun. Here are some tid-bits from this week&#8217;s food news.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We are still processing Psyche Williams-Forson&#8217;s public lecture, &#8220;Eating While Black.&#8221; In her discussion, Dr. Williams-Forson discusses slave food culture and the African American heritage to which it gave rise.\u00a0Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/people-and-culture\/food\/the-plate\/2016\/09\/5-foods-from-africa\/?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_content=link_twfd20161022food-nutday&amp;utm_campaign=Content&amp;sf39535093=1\">here<\/a> to learn more about some foods so entrenched in American culture that you would never know\u00a0they are African transplants.<\/li>\n<li>Tomorrow is Food Day! In celebration, FRESHFARM Markets has put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/us11.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=3684757e290b8af057c99d3f3&amp;id=74dd729b0d&amp;e=f0a2a2d522\">list<\/a> of non-profits that are doing amazing work in the nation&#8217;s capital. If you are from the DC Metro area and are searching for ways to help out while you are home for the holiday season&#8230;look no further!<\/li>\n<li>The US Secretary of Agriculture addresses the Future Farmers of America at the 89th Annual FFA Convention and Expo. Watch his speech <a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.ffa.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/20\/video-u-s-secretary-of-agriculture-tom-vilsack-addresses-89th-national-ffa-convention-expo\/?utm_content=buffer24cbd&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Whirpool, Blue Apron, Zero Percent, and TriplePundit engaged in a Twitter Chat on food waste in America. Checkout the discussion highlights by searching #FoodWaste3p.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These past two weeks have flown by! But we are back, well-rested, and ready for a second half of the semester filled with food and fun. Here are some tid-bits from this week&#8217;s food news. We are still processing Psyche Williams-Forson&#8217;s public lecture, &#8220;Eating While Black.&#8221; In her discussion, Dr. Williams-Forson discusses slave food culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}