Stories
Tequila and Power: Salma Hayek’s “Monarca” on Netflix
In Salma Hayek's "Monarca" on Netflix, three siblings from the Mexican 1% learn how to manage their lives and their family Tequila company between personal vicissitudes, corporate intrigue, and the social constraints that the narrative presents as powerful as any...
Food, Migrants, and the Making of Traditions
For migrant communities, food is more than just physical sustenance: it produces meaning and sense, creating infinite culinary variations where ingredients, dishes, and meal structures can express agency, pride, comfort, but also embarrassment and cultural...
Wine, Potatoes, and Canned Soup: Food in Contemporary Polish Plays
Food appears where one would less expect it, including the stage. In a few contemporary Polish theater plays, it represents on the one hand a tangible sign of economic wealth and a reassuring proof of economic success, on the other the cause of tension between comfort...
Promoting food heritage abroad: a case study from Spain
Can food heritage be activated as a development tool to promote and support local productions and traditions, both nationally and abroad? What negotiations and compromises are necessary to make it available and understandable to consumers? During the time spent in...
Food Studies in the Time of Sovranism
When it comes to the current political climate, I am not even remotely qualified to suggest to anybody how and when to work through their own fears, grief, and anger, or how to navigate the future. Personally, I feel I can’t enjoy the luxury of separating theory and...
Eating and Drinking in Global Brooklyn
Why do many restaurants and cafes around the world all look the same? Why they all seem to display similar upcycled materials, mismatched chairs, blackboards, plants, and menus that at times require some effort to interpret - let alone enjoy? Welcome to Global...