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Mountains To Main Streets: Negotiating Authenticity In Appalachia’S 21st Century Moonshine Distilleries, Ty Jonathan Holtzman Jan 2021

Mountains To Main Streets: Negotiating Authenticity In Appalachia’S 21st Century Moonshine Distilleries, Ty Jonathan Holtzman

Senior Projects Spring 2021

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.


Reproducing Culture Through Terroir: Following Raclette Du Valais From The Alps To The Consumer, Sophia Rose Jan 2019

Reproducing Culture Through Terroir: Following Raclette Du Valais From The Alps To The Consumer, Sophia Rose

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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


Drowning In Plenty: Bulk, Waste And Countercultural Revival In The Anthropocene, Olivia Shuang Horwitz Jan 2018

Drowning In Plenty: Bulk, Waste And Countercultural Revival In The Anthropocene, Olivia Shuang Horwitz

Senior Projects Spring 2018

This senior project examines the potential for the bulk food section in American food stores to reduce both food and packaging waste. I chose to analyze the American supermarket because of its immense influence it has on consumer purchases and its role in society as a place of resource to acquire foodstuffs therefore becoming a necessity for the twenty-first century consumer. The type of bulk my research examines as one solution to these problems is not the bulk buys from big box stores like Costco or Wal-Mart, which retain prepackaged marketing, but rather from the aisles in supermarkets and grocery …