Stories
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...
A cookbook for those alone and those in love: negotiating gender and class in socialist Poland (part 2)
A cookbooks author’s passion for food and his need to fit in the cultural and political expectation of his times allow us to peek into the material culture of later 1950s and early 1960s socialist Poland, where class differences were a touchy topic. How could a gay...
A cookbook for those alone and those in love: negotiating gender and class in socialist Poland (part 1)
How could a gay man who loved food express his passion for cooking and eating in socialist Poland? Easy: he created a fictional straight couple and had them write a cookbook meant to help singles (and the soon-to-be-married) improve their quality of life, at least in...
Food, sovranism, and Antonio Gramsci
In many countries around the world, farmers frequently support sovranist leaders and governments whose policies actually damage their business. These loyalties fluster political opponents, who often are not able to explain the how and why of these dynamics. Reading...