My chapter in Food heritage and Nationalism in Europe, edited by Ilaria Porciani, reflects on how connections between tradition, heritage and intellectual property have been activated in the global food market. In the chapter, I also discuss the role and function of...
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...
Central to citizens’ physical survival and social identity, food can play a central in role in politics, the organized effort to define, manage, and determine goals for communities at all scales. Ingredient, dishes, and eating customs may end up becoming tools –...
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...
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,...
