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Food News

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  Habit Makes Bad Food Too Easy to Swallow

  September 8, 2011

  Do you always get popcorn at the movies? Or snack while you’re on the couch watching television? A new paper by USC researchers revealed why bad eating habits persist even when the food we’re eating doesn’t… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: food, habits, psychology, publication, social sciences, wendy wood

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  Hungry Minds and Green Thumbs

  December 14, 2010

  Anne McKnight’s class took the idea of farm-to-table cuisine literally when they prepared lunch to mark the end of the Fall semester. On December 2, the class of 25 students gathered in a small kitchen at the University… more>

  tags: community, comparative literature, culture, food, garden, humanities, literature

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  Sour Research, Sweet Results

  November 24, 2010

  This Thanksgiving, when you nibble the cranberry sauce and the tartness smacks your tongue as hard as that snide comment from your sister, consider the power of sour. Of the five taste sensations — sweet, bitter,… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: biology, emily liman, food, natural sciences, neurobiology, neuroscience, proceedings of the national academy of sciences, publication, taste

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  Feelings, Oh, Oh, Oh!

  September 8, 2010

  Even a cognoscente of the written word like Aimee Bender admits the difficulty in communicating feelings. In her new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Random House), the professor of English in USC College… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: aimee bender, book, english, food, humanities, writing

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  Add Two Cultures and Stir

  June 5, 2009

  Pork barbecue, corn bread, black-eyed peas, fried green tomatoes — and Korean-style chicken and dumplings. When Southern soul food comes to mind, flavors of Eastern cuisine are not usually part of the picture. For… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: chef, cooking, drama, food, humanities, korea, political science, show, social sciences, television