art – Kera Lovell, Ph.D.

Hawaiian Food Flag

As one component of the final project for my AMST 202 class at Honolulu Community College this semester, students were asked to create a food flag. And as I’ve mentioned in this past blog post, I love food flags! A flag is a symbol of national identity – we salute flags, we sing to flags,Continue reading “Hawaiian Food Flag”

Coffee is simple

I love coffee. I drink it everyday – all day. I like to dip my doughnuts in it. I like to sip it in small glasses from hipster coffee shops. I like it from Italian highway rest areas. I like coffee. It is sometimes difficult to communicate to other people what type of coffee youContinue reading “Coffee is simple”

Eating America

I’m in the process of creating a syllabus for a 200-level undergraduate course on unpacking the transnational roots of core American food ingredients, and in looking for a good image for the syllabus have discovered a beautiful array of US flags made of food. Now, for the Fourth of July, I’ve always loved to make aContinue reading “Eating America”