
Fieldwork: The Heavy Absence of Sardinian Spikes
Penelope spent March and April exploring public and private archives on the coast of Sardinian cities in search of sea urchin histories. Between Alghero and Cagliari, memories of this delicacy are strong.

Now Online: ‘Culinary Claims’ Book Talk
ollowing the recent release of her book Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada, cultural historian L. Sasha Gora joined the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series …

Fermentation Special Issue
In November 'Food, Culture & Society' published Sasha's article “Time and Microbes, Tides and Bodies,” and it is a delight to see that the whole issue has now been released.

Previewing SKREI - Museum Nord
As part of her March research trip to the cod capital that is Lofoten, Norway, Sasha had the pleasure of previewing SKREI, a museum project currently under construction and scheduled to open in 2026. Read the full story here.

The University of Toronto Press publishes 'Culinary Claims'
Sasha's first book has just been published by the University of Toronto Press as part of its Culinaria series …

Mallory R. Cerkleski visits Augsburg
Mallory Rose Cerkleski, a doctoral candidate in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, stopped by Augsburg in January en route to Kerala.
Chapter in 'Chefs, Restaurants, and Culinary Sustainability'
Sasha was invited to contribute a chapter to the book 'Chefs, Restaurants, and Culinary Sustainability'.

The Resource Kitchen is Open!
The Resource Kitchen is open! Learn more about our shared online library.

Fieldwork: Penelope in the silently loud Arctic
Two months of intense research diving into the presence and absence of seawater spikes in Arctic waters.

New article in 'Food, Culture & Society'
In anticipation of a forthcoming special issue about the wild and wonderful world of fermentation…