VIRTUAL GREENBELT
Another wonderful site for food studies teachers, Virtual Greenbelt
contains images, interviews, and other materials related to Greenbelt,
Maryland, a New Deal-era planned community in the suburbs of Washington,
D.C. Tied to an introductory American Studies course on Material
Culture taught at the University of Maryland College Park, the site
contains student-designed exhibits, projects, and papers all devoted to
the analysis of middle calss American life in the 1930s-1940s. Much of
this deals with food, cooking, kitchens, and family meals. Students
also contribute comparisons with food-related behavior and artifacts of
the 1990s. Virtual Greenbelt is a model of computer-based teaching at
its best and offers much inspiration for everyone interested in pushing
students to think critically about the artifacts of daily life.
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~vg/
Fall 1999 Newsletter of the Association for the
Study of Food And Society