About Fabio Parasecoli

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Fabio Parasecoli is Professor of Food Studies in the Nutrition and Food Studies Department at New York University. His scholarly work explores the cultural politics of food, partocularly in media, food design, and food heritage. He studied East Asian cultures and political science in Rome, Naples and Beijing, and earned a PhD in Agricultural Sciences with a concentration in Gender and Nutrition from Hohenheim University, Germany. He has lectured at the Bologna Business School, the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, Elisava in Barcelona, and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra, Italy.

After covering Middle and Far Eastern political issues for newspapers and magazines in Italy, France, Spain, and Mexico, Fabio wrote as the U.S. correspondent for Gambero Rosso, Italy’s authoritative food and wine magazine. Among his recent books: Al Dente: A History of Food in Italy (2014, translated into Italian in 2015, into Korean in 2018, and into Chinese in 2020), Feasting Our Eyes: Food, Film, and Cultural Citizenship in the US (2016, authored with Laura Lindenfeld), Knowing Where It Comes From: Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete in a Global Market (2017), Food (2019),  Global Brooklyn: Designing Food Experiences in World Cities (2021, co-edited with Mateusz Halawa), Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics (2022), Practicing Food Studies (2024, coedited with Amy Bentley and Krishnendu Ray), and The Pierogi Problem: Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Cuisine (coauthored with Agata Bachórz and Mateusz Halawa, 2025).

Recent projects include a grant from the National Science Centre of Poland to explore the revaluation of traditional and regional food in Poland; a grant from the Ministry of Culture of Spain to study Food Heritage; collaborations with various museums (Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of the City of New York, M9 Museum in Mestre, The Museum at FIT); and workshops that connect food studies, ethnography, and design.

Fabio lives in Fort Lee, NJ and often travel to his hometown Rome, Italy. He is not a chef, but he enjoys cooking: you can see what he makes on his Instagram feed @fparasecoli. You can also follow him on Twitter (@fparasecoli), Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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