Essay - Food and Communication

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In the Communication Studies course, “Media, Food & Foodways,” Assistant Professor Teddy Workneh, Ph.D., asked his students to dig deep into their family’s history to understand the ways in which food has shaped inter-generational relationships and values.

Elias Shingleton, a senior in the School of Emerging Media and Technology, reflected on the way his family’s recipe for halupki has been handed down throughout generations. Halupki is an Eastern European dish; the tradition arrived in his family with his great-great-grandparents’ emigration from the former Czechoslovakia to the United States in 1925.

Read Elias's essay