Research
Fabio Parasecoli’s work ranges from food studies and the cultural politics of food heritage to food design and food business. His research interests extend to the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Click on the following links to explore his research projects:
Global Brooklyn
Food Heritage
Food in Poland
Food + Ethnography + Design
Workshops
Curatorial Work
Food and Culture
Talks, Conferences, Events
.
Gastropopulism: food and identity politics
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 - or...
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite: Food and Inequality
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 - as...
The Mediterranean Diet between Heritage and Design
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...
From Bread Lines to Pea Soup: Notes on Food and Politics in Socialist Poland
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...
Building community in a Shanghai neighborhood garden
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...
Imagining a Different Food System
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...
Tequila and Power: Salma Hayek’s “Monarca” on Netflix
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...
Food, Migrants, and the Making of Traditions
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...
Wine, Potatoes, and Canned Soup: Food in Contemporary Polish Plays
Food appears where one would less expect it, including the stage. In a few contemporary Polish theater plays, it represents on the one hand a tangible sign of economic wealth and a reassuring proof of economic success, on the other the cause of tension between comfort...
Promoting food heritage abroad: a case study from Spain
Can food heritage be activated as a development tool to promote and support local productions and traditions, both nationally and abroad? What negotiations and compromises are necessary to make it available and understandable to consumers? During the time spent in...