I never thought about getting a degree in Food when I was (morosely) considering college majors, way back, second half of last century (that would be 1968).
Maybe there weren't degrees in Food? I mean fun Food degrees. Surely I would have noticed. I do love food.
I guess there were serious Food degrees...but these I would definitely not have noticed. Serious smacked of Science or Math degrees. No more need be said on that matter.
Well, the latest Food degree, totally new and different and special and better than ever, and furthermore, the most comprehensive Food degree ever, gets its start this fall at the Indiana University in Bloomington...I nearly wrote Bloomingdale's...I don't know...that word just seemed to want to slip out--
Never mind that--
I want to know why all the fun stuff like this degree is happening when it would so NOT be reasonable for me to drop my life and go back to school to pursue a degree, and not just any ole degree, but a Ph.D, mind you, in Food. A Doctorate in the Social Science of Food. These students will also be considered ' academic pioneers'. The 'scope and breadth' of this program has never been done before--
I can't tell you how that pushes all my I WANT IT buttons.
They will be studying such interesting things as the history of chocolate, the diet of primates, what the study of bones and teeth reveal about ancient diets, the social and environmental causes of famine, followed by fair trade coffee, food and identity, cooking with herbs...I think I just made that one up.
"Hi, my name is Ruth and I am a Doctor of Food. C'mon ask me, ask me anything about food and everything else, and I'll tell you."
Maybe it's where I am in my life right now, but this seems like a perfectly sane, indeed soul-enhancing, way to spend the next five years of my life.
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