Coffee Lives in Japan: the place of coffee in Japan’s “third spaces”
Professor Merry “Corky” White, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Monday, November 17 at 1 p.m., in-person at 60 Turner Street
Bio: Merry (“Corky”) White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, with specialties in Japanese studies, food, and travel. A caterer prior to entering graduate school, she has written two cookbooks, one of which—first published in the mid- 1970s—was recently reissued by Princeton University Press. She currently has the following projects in the works:- Completing a study of Japanese food workers and conducting new research on the Japanese whiskey industry, including distillery visits, interviews, and participant observation.
- “Don’t Tell the Kinder,” a family history of art and rescue in the exhibition, “Try All What is Possible”: How Emil Singer’s Art Saved Lives, 1936-1942.
- Co-Curator, “Objects of Use and Beauty” Exhibition of Japanese Culinary Tools, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2018
- Co-author with Dr. Benjamin Wurgaft, “Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture,” Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. Coming out in eight foreign language editions. Currently on book tour