The photo above depicts students learning about different types of chocolates at Mitchell’s Fine Chocolates.
Feature Essays
E!S!D!L! feature stories explore an issue of food or drink and the places where they are grown, produced, transported, prepared, or consumed. They are inspired by the features in Gastronomica, drawing upon both personal experience and experts, whether they be scientific or literary.
Food, Five Love Languages in One
Food is on the first level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which means its presence is essential for humans to move on to higher levels…
Alcohol, the Almighty Liquid
Flying from Cleveland to Shanghai, I had three connecting flights that amounted to 40 hours of total travel time. By my second flight, I was…
Growing Through Coffee
A photo of Post sitting on the beach of Lake Erie during Fall of 2020. They’re in a red swimsuit top, blue shorts, and rocking an Oberlin College floppy hat. In their hands are an iced coffee from Dunkin and a plain bagel with cream cheese. They’re smizing and are sunburnt.
Family Meals Across Households
Subtopic 1: Eating Out and Single Parenting Growing up, me and my mom rotated around a set selection of restaurants. Among them was Blair Garden,…
Slow Train Chat
About the creator: Linnea Colton is an Oberlin College student graduating this spring with a psychology degree, and with an interest in environmental systems. Her…
Dunked in Tea: Observations of British Tea Culture
In Robert Icke’s The Doctor, a hugely popular West End play, a kettle was one of the only props in the entire play. The main…
A Genealogy of Kashrut in my Family
The Kosher truck I couldn’t tell you when my family started observing the laws of Kashrut, but we can safely say that it was many,…
Animal Spirits
As I sit in my room, Air Pods nestled in my ears, all I hear is the pressing sound of silence. I put my playlist on…
Feature Essay: Ruby Feurstein
After my first breakup, I was in pieces. I was inconsolable– not that there was anyone around to console me. I had been inconveniently dumped…
Connecting Under One Dining Table from FUKUSHIMA
Although it’s still nine o’clock in the morning, I feel terribly hot. The sun helps grow vegetables, but it just melts humans. Today, we are…
Pain, Pleasure, & Process: The Making of Hot Sauce
This past summer, I joined Joey and his ragtag Friday crew at a warehouse in Prospect, OR where we produced hundreds of bottles of Joey’s…
Queering Gastro-Tourism in Mexico
This table displays the food that my friends and I had on our first night in Merida at Museo de la Gastronomía Yucateca. I wasn’t…
