Princeton Studies Food is inspired in part by pieces of deeply resonant initiatives under way at other universities; here’s a sampling:

• Princeton Theological Seminary’s Farminary program that connects land to spirituality;
• The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy at Columbia University, which “serves as the intellectual hub for multidisciplinary research in nutrition and health while preparing the next generation of food and nutrition professionals and leaders;”
• the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, the 18-year-old interdisciplinary “do-tank” effort to interrupt “the ‘vicious spiral’ of population growth, poverty and environmental degradation – each component exacerbating and accelerating the trend toward destruction of the biosphere;”
• MIT Media Lab’s partnership with Target to explore the future of food;
• the 23-year-old Agrarian Studies Program at Yale, aiming to “reshape how a new generation of scholars understands rural life and society;”
• University of California Global Food Initiative, with its land-grant mission;
• Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University;
• Harvard Engineering’s public lecture series featuring its researchers and world-class chefs, Science and Cooking; its videos on youtube; its free online course, its class, Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter; and its collaboration on sustainable seafood research & advocacy with Chef Barton Seaver via its School of Public Health;
• The Agriculture and Food Systems track of the Five College Sustainability Studies Program for Smith and Mount Holyoke;
• the Food Studies degree at Hostos, a community college of the City University of New York in South Bronx;
• the Chicago Area Food Studies working group at the University of Illinois;
• Establishment at Statler, a refined casual dining restaurant in the School of Hotel Administration that is staffed and operated by students at Cornell;
• degree programs focused on organic and sustainable agriculture at Vermont’s Sterling College; and,
• the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, dedicated to creating food systems that are more sustainable, just, and humane, at the Vermont Law School.