About The Blog
The Plate Gazer is a home for visual snapshots of good food, as well as information about where readers and fellow eaters can get those meals themselves.
Whether it be cheap Lebanese food in Montreal or the perfect bagel with Boursin cheese in Boston’s South End, The Plate Gazer will leave no plate unturned in the pursuit of delicious, well-made, authentic eating experiences.
The Plate Gazer is also the creative component to my Honor’s Thesis, which is the capstone to my honor’s degree from Emerson College. The thesis is an exploration of the meaning of food in our individual lives, and how we determine if the food we eat is authentic. I am exploring the question of how our eating choices reflect our class structure and our positions in society, but also how those choices define our sense of self and illuminate our identities, both for ourselves and in the eyes of others.
I’m including some of the sources I am using for the project below. The completed thesis will be available here soon!
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