Who doesn’t love tacos? But again, what is a taco? What are our expectations for what has become an American staple? Who determined them? And have all expectations equal importance and visibility on the food scene? These are some of the topics that constitute the...
When cooking, I often use no recipe. I rarely can tell quantities. I can more or less explain what I am doing, but it is just a way to rationalize and make sense of movements and gestures that I have internalized. Both the embodied and the rational aspects of my...
Thinking about the past helps us define ourselves. And understanding how we locate ourselves in time and how we create connections between our perceptions of the past, our experience in the present, and our expectations of the future, can provide insights on the...
As China is changing its recycling policies, cities are trying to adapt to the new regulatory landscape. Community initiatives are considered central in teaching citizens how to rethink their relationship to garbage and food waste, just as their levels of consumption...
Irony and a keen sense of the absurdity of contemporary consumer society allow Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, director of the global hit film Parasite, to deal with surreal plot lines while emphasizing the tangible elements of everyday life – including food...
China is still in flux, a complex country with layers and layers of history and stories. In any metropolis, upscale real estate and old buildings coexist. Affluent citizens may live in proximity of rural migrants, while ignoring their existence. A community garden in...
