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...
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,...
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...
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...
