Harrington Wins Top Enometrics Research Presentation Award
Professor Robert Harrington, University of Arkansas 21st Century Endowed Chair in Hospitality
Professor Robert Harrington, who holds the University of Arkansas 21st Century Endowed Chair in Hospitality, won the top research presentation award at the 19th annual Enometrics research conference in Coimbra and Viseu, Portugal, June 1. The conference is jointly sponsored by the Vineyard Data Quantification Society, European Association of Wine Economists and Gastronometrica – Society for Quantification in Gastronomy.
Harrington's research presentation was based on a study titled “The impact of food and wine knowledge, wine acidity level, wine sweetness level, and wine tannin on perceived match with food.”
Harrington's study was co-authored with University of Arkansas graduate student Rebeckah Koones, Mario Gozzi of George Brown College (Toronto), and Michelle McCarthy of the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers.
Harrington coordinates the hospitality and restaurant management concentration in the food, human nutrition and hospitality major in the School of Human Environmental Sciences, which is part of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. He is the author of the text Food and Wine Pairing: A Sensory Experience and teaches a course on "Food and Wine."
Contacts
Howell Medders, Coordinator
AGCS
575-5647,
hmedders@uark.edu
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