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.
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Global Brooklyn
Food Heritage
Food in Poland
Food + Ethnography + Design
Workshops
Curatorial Work
Food and Culture
Talks, Conferences, Events
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Infinite Appetite: Food in The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy
Food satire in US TV comedy shows, animated sitcoms such as South Park, and Internet videos provides an outlet to reflect on social and cultural problems, including racism. It also offers a rather benign critique of the vices of the average American. After all, the...
Beyond Tapas: Catalan Cuisine as Food Heritage
The culture of tapas is well known around the world, and very popular in Barcelona, the city with most tourists in Spain. But Catalan cuisine has much more to offer in terms of food heritage, as Xavier Medina, UNESCO Chair on Food, Culture and Development at the...
Food Traditions, Culture, and Politics
When it takes place within conservative cultural frameworks and political propaganda, the rediscovery of food traditions can bolster moral values and patriarchal social structures based on the ideological myth of a time that knew neither disruptions nor crises – maybe...
Why Do We Care about Food Heritage?
Boqueria, Santa Caterina market, tapas, experimental cuisine… So many reason to be in Barcelona if you are interested in food. In the past couple of decades, the capital of the autonomous region of Catalonia has turned into a major hub for culinary experimentation but...
Heavenly Meals: Food in Amazon’s Good Omens
What do angels eat? And can food be a good reason for having a body, rather than being spirituals entities dancing on the head of a pin? These existential questions run through Good Omens, the adaptation of the1990 novel co-written by Neil Gaiman (who also wrote the...
Cooking with Others, Learning with our Bodies
I am not a chef. I am just a moderately proficient homecook (you can check what I cook on my Instagram account @fparasecoli) I have not been to culinary school (although maybe... at some point...). I have never gone through any kind of formal process to learn about...
Polish Cuisine on Display in Warsaw
Interest in Polish cuisine is growing fast, and it has started putting itself on display. In mid-May, 50 of the most visible Polish chef got together for the Taste Masters event, which we previously announced on Gambero Rosso. Organized by Justyna Adamczyk, director...
From the Kitchen to the Page and Back
I originally published this article on the Huffington Post back in 2016. It was the beginning of an adventure that took me to unexpected experiences: cooking on a wood stove from the 1940s; writing an essay for a book on food, memory, and imagination; and contributing as an expert advisor to the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition Food: Bigger than the Plate. To be continued…