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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
