Stories
Searching for Italy: CNN, Travel, and Food
Almost one year into the pandemic, Stanley Tucci’s new show on CNN, Searching for Italy, provides pleasant succor without wallowing too much in pastoral fantasies or good savage characterizations. What can be better than enjoying a stroll in the creative, buzzing mess...
What does Global Brooklyn look like?
The photo gallery that accompanies the Global Brooklyn book is now online! There are many reasons that convinced us to launch the gallery. Visual digital media have supported the global diffusion of Global Brooklyn, its looks, and its feel, from fonts to the plating...
The Present and Future of Food and Technology
Illustration by Pablo Delcan. Here is a brief excerpt of my article in The Food Issue of the MIT Technology Review, in which I reflect on how the impact of technology on the food system depends on political choices and the priorities we embrace as a society. The issue...
Food on the Frontier: First Cow
What counts is not the uniqueness or the fanciness of what one cooks, but the sense of comfort and satisfaction food provides, the consolation, the sensations it brings back, or the fantasies it creates with fragments of memories and emotions. All of which can be...
Untested Flavors: Understanding Food through Design
Photo: a dessert at Epoka restaurant, Warsaw, Poland What is design for in a food course that does not include making anything? How can we leverage design methods and practices when students don’t built, shape, or even taste food? It is almost the end of the semester,...
Seasons and Leisure: Time, Food, and Cooking in Polish Food Media
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...