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Chocolate as my new hobby
My Chocolate story:
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The Houston Chronicle and Austin American Statesman
Newspaper Article
(Photo Ha Lam): I have found that everyone has a chocolate story to share. My chocolate
tastes used to be limited to mainly Snickers bars until my travels for research sent me to northern Europe, esp.
Belgium and Denmark. During this time, I gained an appreciation for really dark chocolate,
from "grocery" store brands to specialty shops. Before traveling, I had the idea
to use American candy bars to teach biological concepts.
During my stay in Belgium, I wrote an article
about my idea and the foundation for a whole seminar
about chocolate started to set. Click on the picture or the following for the
complete story.
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News 8 Austin (video)
Video:
From 2004 to 2007, I read different books on chocolate and tried to develop a sense for how
chocolate could be used a model to explore different disciplines that you find
at a small liberal arts college such as Southwestern. You can hear me talk about it in this
News 8 Austin video by Paul Brown (just click on the picture and the video will start).
Fall 2007 brought the first multidisciplinary
FYS on chocolate which
I will repeat in Fall 2008.
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Syllabus: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Academic Profile:
You can download the
syllabus for
the course. Or, read about the details in
an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (requires subscription).
More Chocolate Info
Local Austin Chocolatiers
Book List (plan for Sept. launch)
Tasting Guides by Students (plan for Oct. launch)
Weblinks about chocolate,
please searchdel.icio.us for "FYS_Chocolate"
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