Stories
Food Traditions, Culture, and Politics
When it takes place within conservative cultural frameworks and political propaganda, the rediscovery of food traditions can bolster moral values and patriarchal social structures based on the ideological myth of a time that knew neither disruptions nor crises – maybe...
How does our Food Get to Us?
The global circulation of food products, which for instance makes chili peppers from Tanzania available, convenient, and affordable in Rome, is often beyond what we can grasp. And, frankly, we may not be that interested in figuring it out either, as long as the food...
Why Do We Care about Food Heritage?
Boqueria, Santa Caterina market, tapas, experimental cuisine… So many reason to be in Barcelona if you are interested in food. In the past couple of decades, the capital of the autonomous region of Catalonia has turned into a major hub for culinary experimentation but...
Heavenly Meals: Food in Amazon’s Good Omens
What do angels eat? And can food be a good reason for having a body, rather than being spirituals entities dancing on the head of a pin? These existential questions run through Good Omens, the adaptation of the1990 novel co-written by Neil Gaiman (who also wrote the...
Food: A Citizen’s Manual
I was recently shopping at the Trionfale market in my Roman neighborhood of Prati. The place is brimming with all kinds of produce and products, mixing the artisanal and the industrial, the convenient and the traditional. The market is now inside a recently built...
Cooking with Others, Learning with our Bodies
I am not a chef. I am just a moderately proficient homecook (you can check what I cook on my Instagram account @fparasecoli) I have not been to culinary school (although maybe... at some point...). I have never gone through any kind of formal process to learn about...