“Global food” has a bad ring to it. We inevitably think of industrialized, delocalized products without roots in any specific culinary tradition. It is the convenient, accessible, and affordable stuff we may find in any supermarket or corner store around the world:...
What is Italian cuisine? What kind of national identity does it reflect, considering that Italians are famously attached to their local and regional culinary traditions? These are the central questions that food historian Massimo Montanari and comparative law...
Bong Joon-ho’s use of food, eating, and dystopic food systems to develop his arguments has not garnered the attention it deserves. Which is quite strange, as those elements are in your face, all the time, like in his last film Mickey 17. Class stratification and...
Maria Contreras illustration for Foreign Policy The dinner table unites and divides, especially the question of what we eat and how we eat it. It is therefore not surprising that politicians frequently use food as a wedge issue to push their ideological agendas and...
This is a draft of my review of Diana Garvin’s book, Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work, published on the journal MLN. Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 film Bicycle Thieves has marked world cinema with its raw representations of post-World War II poverty...
