Stories
Infinite Appetite: Food in The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy
Food satire in US TV comedy shows, animated sitcoms such as South Park, and Internet videos provides an outlet to reflect on social and cultural problems, including racism. It also offers a rather benign critique of the vices of the average American. After all, the...
Beyond Tapas: Catalan Cuisine as Food Heritage
The culture of tapas is well known around the world, and very popular in Barcelona, the city with most tourists in Spain. But Catalan cuisine has much more to offer in terms of food heritage, as Xavier Medina, UNESCO Chair on Food, Culture and Development at the...
The Choices We Make when We Write about Food
It is has become crucial for us as consumers to become more aware about the complexities of the contemporary global food system. Achieving a better understanding of the networks of goods, people, finance, and ideas in which we find ourselves entangled is a first step...
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...