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Theresa McCulla
Food Literacy Project Administrator

Theresa McCulla joined Harvard University Dining Services in 2007 as the Food Literacy Project (FLP) Administrator. McCulla graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a degree in Romance Languages. She has worked as a CIA European media analyst by day and as an assistant pastry chef, line cook, and researcher for a food writer by night. Theresa loves anything and everything food and happily goes to great lengths to enjoy the perfect pho, pupusa, or fresh-picked plum.

 


Name: Lewis Ward
Year: 2010
House: Winthrop House
Food Interests: Vegetarianism, sustainability, and cooking (everything is better homemade).  
Fun Food Fact: The first eukaryotic genome to be completely sequenced was that of baker's yeast.
Name: Maren Shapiro
Year: 2010
House: Currier
Fun Food Fact: President of the Culinary Society. Spent summers in high school working on the set of a food network show in Napa, CA.

 

Name: Maya Sugarman
Year: 2012
House: Pforzheimer/First-Year Reps Captain
Favorite Food: Cupcakes and popcorn
Fun Food Fact: Ketchup was almost declared a vegetable under the Reagan administration.
Food Interest: Everything - nutrition, sustainability, food as an expression of culture...
  Name: Jessica Luna
Year: 2010
House: Lowell House
Favorite Foods: Avocado, eggplant, and homemade bread
Food Interests:
Sustainable agriculture, community food security, and vegan baking

 Elan Nguyen

Name: Elan Nguyen
Year: 2013
Dorm: Greenough
Favorite foods: Sushi, fried chicken, chocolate covered strawberries, bubble tea
Food interests:
Nutrition and going organic
Food fact:
I have attended two cooking camps in the past few summers - one at Kendall Culinary College in Chicago and another at Johnson & Wales Culinary University in Providence

Name: Robb Fitzsimmons
Year: 2010
House: Pforzheimer
Favorite Food: Sauteed broccoli rabe with lots of garlic and red pepper!
Food Interest: Nutrition, Cooking, and Food Culture
Name: Sarah Yang
Year: 2010
House: Quincy!
Favorite Foods: I crave noodle soups, chocolate tweed cake, curly fries, and doh-wha.
Food Interest: Ethnic Foods :)
 Tian Feng Name: Tian Feng
Year: 2011
House: Eliot House
Favorite foods: Anything spicy or with mushrooms, and occasionally both
Food interest:
Cooking processes

Name: Kelly Evans
Year: 2010
House: Adams House
Food Fact: Every summer we eat an excessive amount of summer squash grown in my sister's garden (it's the only vegetable that doesn't die) - but I love squash!
  Name: Li Jin
Year: 2012
House: Dunster House
Favorite Food: Sushi (unagi!)
Fun Food Fact:
I once got fooled into eating sea tortoise (which is endangered!) by my father, who told me it was just "a fish with four legs"
Food Interest:
Baking -- everything tastes good with lots of butter and sugar

Judy Fan 

Name: Judy Fan
Year:
2010
House:
Leverett House
Favorite Food Things:
braising, using more garlic than called for, caramelizing bananas, oatmeal with the former, fluffy eggs, peeling hard boiled eggs, almond paste, dusting powdered sugar on things unless things include black t-shirts, chocolate where you didn't think you'd find it, bakery hopping, the smell of sugary starches, non-chalky, smooth steeping teas (sencha ftw!), rolling gnocchi, making that...but in a rice cooker

  Name: Ali Occhialini
Year: 2010
House: Cabot
Favorite foods: ribollita (a soup from Tuscany), and my grandmother's lasagna
Food Fact:
I spent last summer working at Gourmet magazine and with my foodie idol, Ruth Reichl

 
Name: Jonathan Rosenthal
Year: 2013
House: Hurlbut
Favorite foods: Anything freshly picked, pasta
Food Interests:
Farming, sustainable agriculture (local and global), eating while sitting down
  Name: Paige Qin
Year: 2013
House: Thayer
Favourite food: hotpot, gelato, sushi-all-you-can-eat's, fushion foods, anything picnicable
Food interests:
ethnic cooking, restaurant-hunting, anti-wasting
Fun food fact:
I never developed a taste for soymilk, until I got to Annenberg, where 2% cow milk is not available

Name: Cassie Snow
Year: 2010
House: Kirkland
Favorite Food: mashed potatoes and gravy
Food Interest: I'm particularly interested in nutrition and food sustainability

Name: Marena Lin
Year: 2011
House: Mather
Food Interest: cultural context of food, sustainability, global health, agriculture and climate change