With Agata Bachórz What’s the value of time? How do we invest it in shopping, cooking, and eating? How do we balance convenience with comfort and pleasure? And how choices about time express who we feel we are as individuals and communities? At times, looking at...
I was looking at old notes, and I realized it was precisely in the fall of four years ago that my contact with the food of Poland happened. I thought it would be fun to go back to the first posts I published and share some of those first impressions. After four...
A sense that the food system has overall withstood the COVID-19 shock has prevailed, with little or no discussion about lessons learned and possible improvements or interventions. Food in the US remains a private or, at most, a local matter. As I watch presidential...
Food constitutes an important feature in today’s nativist movements. It prompts us to reflect on how embodied and emotional politics bypass organized ideologies, coming across as spontaneously flowing from the ever bubbling spring of the “real people,” regardless of...
In their emphasis on personal responsibility and the central role of community Slow Food and Pope Francis appear to be less distant that one may think. Food and pleasure provide a shared terrain to discuss sustainability, biodiversity, and other urgent issues. “There...
