Stony Brook Southampton is offering a new noncredit course, Edible Education, about contemporary food culture, that starts this month.
The course consists of eight classes held between October 25 and December 20 and two supplemental “gardening intensives,” with Brian Halweil, the founding editor of Edible East End.
According to Stony Brook Southampton, the course is designed around the concept of building food skills, knowledge and community, and will demonstrate why food and agriculture are the biggest ways that humans have an impact on the planet. Among the topics included in the curriculum are the farm-to-table movement, organic versus local versus biodynamic, culinary diversity, Long Island wine, and food politics. Part of each class will be a food skill lesson, such as cooking, gardening and preservation.
“The course is for teachers, health care providers, food entrepreneurs, parents or anyone interested in making food a bigger part of their career and life,” Mr. Halweil said in a statement. “When we understand food and drink more, we can enjoy it more. Students will gain the ability to evaluate and understand contemporary food issues as they relate to local and global challenges. Course materials will draw on current events, popular media and published research in food and drink, and will also be guided by the students’ interests.”
Classes will take place at Chancellors Hall and South Fork Kitchens on the campus in Shinnecock Hills on Thursdays from 5:20 to 8:10 p.m. The gardening intensives will be on Saturdays, November 10 and 17, from 9 a.m. to noon. Tuition is $985. Visit stonybrook.edu/commcms/southampton/mfa/edible/ or email southamptonarts@stonybrook.edu.
The registration deadline is Monday, October 22.