“Global food” has a bad ring to it. We inevitably think of industrialized, delocalized products without roots in any specific culinary tradition. It is the convenient, accessible, and affordable stuff we may find in any supermarket or corner store around the world:...
Bong Joon-ho’s use of food, eating, and dystopic food systems to develop his arguments has not garnered the attention it deserves. Which is quite strange, as those elements are in your face, all the time, like in his last film Mickey 17. Class stratification and...
This is a draft of my review of Diana Garvin’s book, Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work, published on the journal MLN. Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 film Bicycle Thieves has marked world cinema with its raw representations of post-World War II poverty...
Just like a brunch is about leisure and relaxation with friends and family, The Big Brunch on HBO Max builds culinary entertainment that is good-natured, with contestants supporting each other, with less frantic rhythm and editing style, without bombast and brashness....
Present-day gastronativism differs from previous manifestations. It inevitably reflects not only the structure and flows of the global food system but also the social, economic, and political power relations that underpin it and determine its mechanisms. “The...
An excerpt from my new book Gastronativism: why reflecting on the connections between food, identity, and politics is important. “IN MANY ways, this book has been in the making for a long time. I have been interested in international politics for many years: I...
