Having grown up in Rome, Italy, it is always nice to find myself in a place where the smells, the colors, and the flavors of the food remind me somehow of my own culinary background. In particular, tomatoes are a marker of home. Plump, tasty, aromatic, they were a...
Squarely at the center of conversations and controversies about what Poland is and should be in the future, food has great political value due to the nation’s recent past as a socialist country in the USSR sphere of influence, its post-socialist transformation, and...
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...
What would a better food system look like? Is it possible to turn debates around food politics and popular culture into arenas where a positive dialogue could develop between groups looking at the world from different points of view? Could food become an arena where a...
In Salma Hayek’s “Monarca” on Netflix, three siblings from the Mexican 1% learn how to manage their lives and their family Tequila company between personal vicissitudes, corporate intrigue, and the social constraints that the narrative presents as powerful as any...
For migrant communities, food is more than just physical sustenance: it produces meaning and sense, creating infinite culinary variations where ingredients, dishes, and meal structures can express agency, pride, comfort, but also embarrassment and cultural...
