I’m in the throes of organizing a course for the American Studies program at Purdue on food studies – a class exploring the connections between food, identity, and place. Today’s visual inspirations are maps I’ve found trying to embed certain recipes within US regions and cities. What could you add to these maps? How would yourContinue reading “Teaching Spotlight: Maps of American Food”
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The World’s Best Cookie Recipes
My heart is going to explode with happiness. Food52 just released an infographic (by Jordan Sondler), map, and list with some of the world’s best cookie recipes. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about cookie recipes in preparation for holiday gifts, and now I’m overwhelmed with the urge to retire early and spend theContinue reading “The World’s Best Cookie Recipes”
Teaching Spotlight: Mapping Youth Culture
How do you visualize youth culture through a mind map? My American Studies undergraduate class and I attempt that difficult feat.
Inspiration: Dubai’s World Expo, 2020
To begin, I want to start by connecting you with my other blog, Global Food Studies, in which I unpack my exploratory research trip to the 2015 World Expo in Milan, Italy where I analyzed transnational American food studies. In this post, I include graphics just released that visualize Dubai’s plans for its own WorldContinue reading “Inspiration: Dubai’s World Expo, 2020”
Expo 2020 – Dubai
In a spark of pure wonderful coincidence, I stumbled across the concept visualization of Expo 2020 in Dubai – and boy does it look amazing, so I wanted to share. To begin, Dubai’s Expo abstract theme, “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future,” is organized into three main sub-themes: mobility, sustainability and opportunity that are visualized by threeContinue reading “Expo 2020 – Dubai”
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