Stories
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...
My First Impressions of Food in Poland
I was looking at old notes, and I realized it was precisely in the fall of four years ago that my contact with the food of Poland happened. I thought it would be fun to go back to the first posts I published and share some of those first impressions. After four...
No Food in the US Presidential Debates
A sense that the food system has overall withstood the COVID-19 shock has prevailed, with little or no discussion about lessons learned and possible improvements or interventions. Food in the US remains a private or, at most, a local matter. As I watch presidential...
What the Real People Eat: Nativist Food and Fascist Aesthetics
Food constitutes an important feature in today’s nativist movements. It prompts us to reflect on how embodied and emotional politics bypass organized ideologies, coming across as spontaneously flowing from the ever bubbling spring of the “real people,” regardless of...