For their final foreign stage before graduation, University of Gastronomic Sciences third-years will travel to India, visiting the cities of Delhi and Dehradun and exploring traditional Indian cooking and food culture.
The group, traveling from July 9 to 21, will take part in an intense program of site visits, discussions, seminars, and meetings with such food leaders as Vandana Shiva, founder of the Navdanya project. Over the course of their time in India, the students will deepen their knowledge of its history and anthropology, as well as the socio-economic and other emerging issues facing the complex and intensely populous country.
The trip will include time in the megalopolis of Delhi, India’s crucible of culture and ethnic diversity, as well as the rural landscapes of Dehradun. In addition to studying rice, mango, and mustard-seed oil production, the UNISG group will consider Indian food culture today within the context of Mahatma Gandhi’s historic values and teachings. Such contemporary issues as biopiracy, gene patenting, and the role of women in agriculture will also be tackled. The group will also visit several Terra Madre food communities, traveling to the rural village of Hyun and the Chamiyala area, Uttarkhand, the Tehri Dam, the campus of Bija Vidyapeeth and the spectacular Taj Mahal.
For complete details of the India stage, visit:
https://www.unisg.it/eng/stage_india.php