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Tasting Histories is a free (pre-registration is required) three-day conference to be held Friday-Sunday, February 27-March 1, 2009 on the UC Davis campus.  This event is open to scholars, scientists, growers and farmers, and members of the general public.  It will take place in the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, a new facility on the UC Davis campus that houses together the programs in sensory science, food, science and technology, as well as viticulture and enology and creates a collaborative space for the study of food, wine, and culture.  The event will highlight the connections between scholars in the humanities and sciences and the innovations of our regional farmers and producers, all of whom work at the nexus of taste, food, region, globe, and history.  We anticipate a lively two-days of conversations and meals after which participants will have a new understanding of how “taste” and “history” can be seen anew when viewed by experts from different points of view who break bread together.

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This event is sponsored by the UC Davis Humanities Institute and the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.

Co-sponsored by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on World History; the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Food and the Body; Dean of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies; Dean of Social Sciences; Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Science; Vice Chancellor of Research; Department of Food Science and Technology; Department of Viticulture and Enology; Foods for Health Initiative.