F Parasecoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 20888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Parasecoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Parasecoli |
| SIGNATURE | PARASECOLI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7301-0053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Struggle for Wheat: The Weaponization of Trade Interdependence in the Russia-Ukraine War
Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work by Diana Garvin (review)
Reviewed by: Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work by Diana Garvin Fabio Parasecoli Diana Garvin. Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022), utorontopress.com/9781487528195/feeding-fascism, xvi+276 pages Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) marked world cinema with its raw representations of poverty in Italy following World War II. Faithful to its neoreali…
Food design, nutrition, and innovation
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 24 October 2022Sec. Public Health and Nutrition Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1039795
Designing the Future of Polish Food
This article explores the cultural work behind the newly emerging interest in Polish cuisine, culinary traditions, and local ingredients among urban, educated, upwardly mobile middle-class foodies who a decade earlier would distinguish themselves by conspicuously consuming foreign fare. Cultural intermediaries, or tastemakers, have been central to this process of creating new forms of value and meaning in Polish food. Given their reflexivity, the…
The War in Ukraine and Food Security in Eastern Europe
This dispatch outlines some of the immediate consequences and long-term challenges posed by the Ukraine war on food security and production systems in Eastern Europe. We draw particular attention to the food aid and provisioning realities around many million (and increasing) numbers of Ukrainian refugees, and the current lack of systemic, government-coordinated responses to the humanitarian crisis. Further, we outline the distinct forms of agricu…
Eating on the go in Italy: Between cibo di strada and street food
This article provides an initial assessment of the emergence of what Italians now call street food, in English. The relatively new and fashionable expression in a foreign language refers to the contemporary evolution of what used to be called cibo di strada (street food, in Italian). Both supported and stimulated by the media over the past decade, culinary entrepreneurs and creative chefs have been providing affordable and exciting dishes and sna…
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media
This article examines the future-oriented use of the culinary past in Poland’s food discourse through a qualitative analysis of popular food media (printed magazines and TV). We analyze how interpretations of food and culinary practices from the past are connected to contemporary debates. We contend that media representations of the culinary past co-create projects of Polish modernization in which diverse voices vie for hegemony by embracing diff…
Why should we care? Two experiences in the politics of food and food research
The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an object of study. The first author of the article has studied Polish society as an insider, while the other author had previously conducted research in other countries and three years ago started exploring Poland and Polish gastronomy, finding himself in the role of outsider. Both scholars have been recently working together. The power relations betwee…
Eating and drinking in Global Brooklyn
This essay proposes an analytical framework for studying the emergent cultural formation around eating and drinking that we call Global Brooklyn. It is a recurring, vaguely codified set of material objects, environments, practices, and discourses which materialize in cities throughout the world in coffee places, restaurants, and food halls. Taking an ideal type approach, we describe: (1) the designed materialities of rugged postindustrial setting…
Teaching Food History: A Discussion Among Practitioners
This roundtable discussion examines pedagogical practices in the emerging field of food history. Participants shared their experiences in a wide variety of different institutional settings and considered the differences between a food history classroom and more traditional history courses. Topics included how best to teach the history of taste, chronological and temporal scales of analysis, and issues of social justice. Discussants also problemat…
Global Trade, Food Safety, and the Fear of Invisible Invaders
Global Trade, Food Safety, and the Fear of Invisible Invaders Fabio Parasecoli (bio) in recent decades, food has emerged as an increasingly relevant domain in social and political debates. In this context, the attention paid to how food is produced, distributed, bought, cooked, and disposed of has reached new heights, causing unprecedented anxiety at all levels, from the personal to the international. Wherever there is a body, be it physical or p…
Starred cosmopolitanism: Celebrity chefs, documentaries, and the circulation of global desire
Several documentaries about celebrity chefs were released between 2010 and 2012, building on trends that have turned knowledge of and access to fine dining restaurants into a crucial arena for globalized elite's construction of social status and cultural capital. The analysis of three of these films - Three Stars, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and Step up to Your Plate - indicates how media contribute to the formation of a global canon of practices, perf…
God’s Diets: The Fat Body and the Bible as an Eating Guide in Evangelical Christianity
As much as some Christians may want to distance themselves from secularism, they find themselves immersed in a cultural environment that draws attention not only to their physical condition, but also to their body image. Particularly in the United States, where being “overweight” is often interpreted as a sign of lack of will and determination, an expression of psychological disorders, and a sure cause of health problems, Christians have been loo…
Tasting a New Home: Food Representations in Italian Neorealist Cinema
This article explores how representations of food contribute to the construction of home as an imagined place and shows that different representations result in multiple meanings of home. As food and the lack thereof constituted urgent issues in post-World War II Italy, directly impacting the welfare of individuals and communities, it is not surprising that Italian Neorealist films frequently featured representations of food production, preparati…
Food, Identity, and Cultural Reproduction in Immigrant Communities
Immigrants cope with the dislocation and disorientation they experience in their new environment by re-creating a sense of place in their domestic environment around food production, preparation, and consumption. Cooking and other food-related practices play a crucial role as they negotiate their presence in post-industrial societies where individuals and groups define their identities around lifestyles and consumer goods. The exploration of pers…
Gluttonous crimes: Chew, comic books, and the ingestion of masculinity
Savoring semiotics: Food in intercultural communication
Food is both a relevant source of signification and an effective form of communication, based on a limited – although very wide – variety of edible substances, practices, beliefs, and norms that form a network of interconnected systems. These systems and their uses in social practice, constituting a specific semiosphere, are challenged when their users travel and are confronted with unfamiliar foodways in terms of ingredients, cooking techniques,…
Shared Meals and Food Fights: Geographical Indications, Rural Development, and the Environment
The article highlights relevant issues within the global debate on geographical indications, as they relate to food products. Geographical indications, a form of intellectual property designated by considering principally the place of origin of products, have become a hot topic among producers, activists, economists, and politicians worldwide. Commercial and legal issues related to them have generated complex negotiations in international organiz…
English: Maribel (or Butch Firbank)
December 01 2010 English: Maribel (or Butch Firbank) English English Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information English Online ISSN: 1531-4812 Print ISSN: 0961-1215 © 2010 ISAST2010 Leonardo Music Journal (2010) 20: 103. https://doi.org/10.1162/LMJ_a_00035 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio…
A Taste of Louisiana: Mainstreaming Blackness Through Food in The Princess and the Frog
P rofusion et P énurie: L es H ommes F ace à L eur B esoins A limentaires edited by Martin Bruegel
Jam, juice and forbidden fruits: Edible Black masculinities in contemporary pop culture
Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men's Fitness Magazines
Body image has become relevant to many men, as the flourishing of male fitness magazines and the consequent development of theoretical studies on the subject demonstrate. In this article, I will examine the close connections between food, masculinities, and body image in male fitness magazines, a booming sector of the fitness and wellness publishing industry. I will attempt a qualitative analysis of editorial features and advertising pages of the…
E l B ulli 1998–2002, by Ferran Adriá, Juli Soler, and Albert Adriá
(2004). El Bulli 1998–2002, by Ferran Adria, Juli Soler, and Albert Adria. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 160-162
Food and Pop Culture: Teaching Critical Theory Through Food
Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men's Fitness Magazines
Body image has become relevant to many men, as the flourishing of male fitness magazines and the consequent development of theoretical studies on the subject demonstrate. In this article, I will examine the close connections between food, masculinities, and body image in male fitness magazines, a booming sector of the fitness and wellness publishing industry. I will attempt a qualitative analysis of editorial features and advertising pages of the…
Savoring semiotics: Food in intercultural communication
Food is both a relevant source of signification and an effective form of communication, based on a limited – although very wide – variety of edible substances, practices, beliefs, and norms that form a network of interconnected systems. These systems and their uses in social practice, constituting a specific semiosphere, are challenged when their users travel and are confronted with unfamiliar foodways in terms of ingredients, cooking techniques,…
Food, Identity, and Cultural Reproduction in Immigrant Communities
Immigrants cope with the dislocation and disorientation they experience in their new environment by re-creating a sense of place in their domestic environment around food production, preparation, and consumption. Cooking and other food-related practices play a crucial role as they negotiate their presence in post-industrial societies where individuals and groups define their identities around lifestyles and consumer goods. The exploration of pers…
Eating and drinking in Global Brooklyn
This essay proposes an analytical framework for studying the emergent cultural formation around eating and drinking that we call Global Brooklyn. It is a recurring, vaguely codified set of material objects, environments, practices, and discourses which materialize in cities throughout the world in coffee places, restaurants, and food halls. Taking an ideal type approach, we describe: (1) the designed materialities of rugged postindustrial setting…
A Taste of Louisiana: Mainstreaming Blackness Through Food in The Princess and the Frog
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media
This article examines the future-oriented use of the culinary past in Poland’s food discourse through a qualitative analysis of popular food media (printed magazines and TV). We analyze how interpretations of food and culinary practices from the past are connected to contemporary debates. We contend that media representations of the culinary past co-create projects of Polish modernization in which diverse voices vie for hegemony by embracing diff…
Starred cosmopolitanism: Celebrity chefs, documentaries, and the circulation of global desire
Several documentaries about celebrity chefs were released between 2010 and 2012, building on trends that have turned knowledge of and access to fine dining restaurants into a crucial arena for globalized elite's construction of social status and cultural capital. The analysis of three of these films - Three Stars, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and Step up to Your Plate - indicates how media contribute to the formation of a global canon of practices, perf…
Why should we care? Two experiences in the politics of food and food research
The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an object of study. The first author of the article has studied Polish society as an insider, while the other author had previously conducted research in other countries and three years ago started exploring Poland and Polish gastronomy, finding himself in the role of outsider. Both scholars have been recently working together. The power relations betwee…
Gluttonous crimes: Chew, comic books, and the ingestion of masculinity
E l B ulli 1998–2002, by Ferran Adriá, Juli Soler, and Albert Adriá
(2004). El Bulli 1998–2002, by Ferran Adria, Juli Soler, and Albert Adria. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 160-162
Food and Pop Culture: Teaching Critical Theory Through Food
Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men's Fitness Magazines
Body image has become relevant to many men, as the flourishing of male fitness magazines and the consequent development of theoretical studies on the subject demonstrate. In this article, I will examine the close connections between food, masculinities, and body image in male fitness magazines, a booming sector of the fitness and wellness publishing industry. I will attempt a qualitative analysis of editorial features and advertising pages of the…
Jam, juice and forbidden fruits: Edible Black masculinities in contemporary pop culture
English: Maribel (or Butch Firbank)
December 01 2010 English: Maribel (or Butch Firbank) English English Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information English Online ISSN: 1531-4812 Print ISSN: 0961-1215 © 2010 ISAST2010 Leonardo Music Journal (2010) 20: 103. https://doi.org/10.1162/LMJ_a_00035 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio…
A Taste of Louisiana: Mainstreaming Blackness Through Food in The Princess and the Frog
P rofusion et P énurie: L es H ommes F ace à L eur B esoins A limentaires edited by Martin Bruegel
Savoring semiotics: Food in intercultural communication
Food is both a relevant source of signification and an effective form of communication, based on a limited – although very wide – variety of edible substances, practices, beliefs, and norms that form a network of interconnected systems. These systems and their uses in social practice, constituting a specific semiosphere, are challenged when their users travel and are confronted with unfamiliar foodways in terms of ingredients, cooking techniques,…
Shared Meals and Food Fights: Geographical Indications, Rural Development, and the Environment
The article highlights relevant issues within the global debate on geographical indications, as they relate to food products. Geographical indications, a form of intellectual property designated by considering principally the place of origin of products, have become a hot topic among producers, activists, economists, and politicians worldwide. Commercial and legal issues related to them have generated complex negotiations in international organiz…
Gluttonous crimes: Chew, comic books, and the ingestion of masculinity
Food, Identity, and Cultural Reproduction in Immigrant Communities
Immigrants cope with the dislocation and disorientation they experience in their new environment by re-creating a sense of place in their domestic environment around food production, preparation, and consumption. Cooking and other food-related practices play a crucial role as they negotiate their presence in post-industrial societies where individuals and groups define their identities around lifestyles and consumer goods. The exploration of pers…
God’s Diets: The Fat Body and the Bible as an Eating Guide in Evangelical Christianity
As much as some Christians may want to distance themselves from secularism, they find themselves immersed in a cultural environment that draws attention not only to their physical condition, but also to their body image. Particularly in the United States, where being “overweight” is often interpreted as a sign of lack of will and determination, an expression of psychological disorders, and a sure cause of health problems, Christians have been loo…
Tasting a New Home: Food Representations in Italian Neorealist Cinema
This article explores how representations of food contribute to the construction of home as an imagined place and shows that different representations result in multiple meanings of home. As food and the lack thereof constituted urgent issues in post-World War II Italy, directly impacting the welfare of individuals and communities, it is not surprising that Italian Neorealist films frequently featured representations of food production, preparati…
Starred cosmopolitanism: Celebrity chefs, documentaries, and the circulation of global desire
Several documentaries about celebrity chefs were released between 2010 and 2012, building on trends that have turned knowledge of and access to fine dining restaurants into a crucial arena for globalized elite's construction of social status and cultural capital. The analysis of three of these films - Three Stars, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and Step up to Your Plate - indicates how media contribute to the formation of a global canon of practices, perf…
Teaching Food History: A Discussion Among Practitioners
This roundtable discussion examines pedagogical practices in the emerging field of food history. Participants shared their experiences in a wide variety of different institutional settings and considered the differences between a food history classroom and more traditional history courses. Topics included how best to teach the history of taste, chronological and temporal scales of analysis, and issues of social justice. Discussants also problemat…
Global Trade, Food Safety, and the Fear of Invisible Invaders
Global Trade, Food Safety, and the Fear of Invisible Invaders Fabio Parasecoli (bio) in recent decades, food has emerged as an increasingly relevant domain in social and political debates. In this context, the attention paid to how food is produced, distributed, bought, cooked, and disposed of has reached new heights, causing unprecedented anxiety at all levels, from the personal to the international. Wherever there is a body, be it physical or p…
Eating and drinking in Global Brooklyn
This essay proposes an analytical framework for studying the emergent cultural formation around eating and drinking that we call Global Brooklyn. It is a recurring, vaguely codified set of material objects, environments, practices, and discourses which materialize in cities throughout the world in coffee places, restaurants, and food halls. Taking an ideal type approach, we describe: (1) the designed materialities of rugged postindustrial setting…
Why should we care? Two experiences in the politics of food and food research
The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an object of study. The first author of the article has studied Polish society as an insider, while the other author had previously conducted research in other countries and three years ago started exploring Poland and Polish gastronomy, finding himself in the role of outsider. Both scholars have been recently working together. The power relations betwee…
Eating on the go in Italy: Between cibo di strada and street food
This article provides an initial assessment of the emergence of what Italians now call street food, in English. The relatively new and fashionable expression in a foreign language refers to the contemporary evolution of what used to be called cibo di strada (street food, in Italian). Both supported and stimulated by the media over the past decade, culinary entrepreneurs and creative chefs have been providing affordable and exciting dishes and sna…
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media
This article examines the future-oriented use of the culinary past in Poland’s food discourse through a qualitative analysis of popular food media (printed magazines and TV). We analyze how interpretations of food and culinary practices from the past are connected to contemporary debates. We contend that media representations of the culinary past co-create projects of Polish modernization in which diverse voices vie for hegemony by embracing diff…
Food design, nutrition, and innovation
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 24 October 2022Sec. Public Health and Nutrition Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1039795
Designing the Future of Polish Food
This article explores the cultural work behind the newly emerging interest in Polish cuisine, culinary traditions, and local ingredients among urban, educated, upwardly mobile middle-class foodies who a decade earlier would distinguish themselves by conspicuously consuming foreign fare. Cultural intermediaries, or tastemakers, have been central to this process of creating new forms of value and meaning in Polish food. Given their reflexivity, the…
The War in Ukraine and Food Security in Eastern Europe
This dispatch outlines some of the immediate consequences and long-term challenges posed by the Ukraine war on food security and production systems in Eastern Europe. We draw particular attention to the food aid and provisioning realities around many million (and increasing) numbers of Ukrainian refugees, and the current lack of systemic, government-coordinated responses to the humanitarian crisis. Further, we outline the distinct forms of agricu…
Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work by Diana Garvin (review)
Reviewed by: Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work by Diana Garvin Fabio Parasecoli Diana Garvin. Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022), utorontopress.com/9781487528195/feeding-fascism, xvi+276 pages Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) marked world cinema with its raw representations of poverty in Italy following World War II. Faithful to its neoreali…
The Struggle for Wheat: The Weaponization of Trade Interdependence in the Russia-Ukraine War
Sociology (16 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Art (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Social science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)