Western Washington University: Traveling - Study Food in Europe, Switzerland & Italy

This multicultural, excursion-rich, and food-focused program offers intensive study and numerous field trips in major European business and cultural centers: Basel, Switzerland and Florence, Italy and their surrounding countrysides. Study is in ecogastronomy, economic, and social movements at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, as well as in sensory taste sciences at the University of Florence. Students study food cultures and gastronomy entrepreneurship—and experience a unique food economy at Camporbiano in the Tuscan countryside. Experience Business and culture at the Istituto Galileo Galilei, authentic regional cuisine and cooking (50 meals), and residential stay at the beautiful‎ Begungzentrum in Dornach and Casa Tosi in Florence.

The format for this course is a 24-day intensive ending in Grosetto, Italy (near Florence). The intensive consists of one day of lectures and meetings on the WWU campus prior to departure, and about one week in Switzerland and two weeks in Florence.