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Feta, Blintzes, And Burritos: The Evolution Of The Diner And Immigrants' Role In Defining American Food Culture, Alexis Kimberly Maresca Jan 2020

Feta, Blintzes, And Burritos: The Evolution Of The Diner And Immigrants' Role In Defining American Food Culture, Alexis Kimberly Maresca

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Rewriting The Haggadah: Judaism For Those Who Hold Food Close, Rose Noël Wax Jan 2020

Rewriting The Haggadah: Judaism For Those Who Hold Food Close, Rose Noël Wax

Senior Projects Spring 2020

American Jews, specifically those who do not observe, often turn towards food as a performance of Jewish identity, both publicly and privately. Longing for roots, these Jews reach for a piece of Jewish culture that can make them not only feel Jewish, but also grounded in a longstanding tradition that explicitly ties Judaism to a dynamic food culture. In doing so they invent traditions, creating habits sometimes loosely based in prescribed or familial tradition, sometimes not at all. In this way, food, through invented traditions, allows modern non- observant American Jews to make their Jewish identity tangible.


Multiple Perceptions Of Soil Health: A Transdisciplinary Collaborative Study Of Two Contrasting Grain Farms In Columbia County, Ny, Gemma G. Allen Jan 2020

Multiple Perceptions Of Soil Health: A Transdisciplinary Collaborative Study Of Two Contrasting Grain Farms In Columbia County, Ny, Gemma G. Allen

Senior Projects Spring 2020

The global carbon pool located in soils is being depleted with time, partially contributing to anthropogenic climate change by means of land use changes and management of soils for food production. Farmer adoption of conservation practices geared towards soil carbon sequestration is an opportunity to reverse this depletion of the soil organic carbon pool. In this project, I investigated farmer perceptions of certain management strategies that have been shown to sequester soil carbon and improve soil health. By interviewing two prominent farmers in Columbia County, I assess options for improving their farms soil health and soil carbon, in addition to …