Fabio Parasecoli

Food Studies, specializing in the cultural politics of food, including media, design, heritage and international affairs

Fabio Parasecoli is one of the great international voices in Food Studies. Professor at New York University, where for years he has led reflection on the political and cultural uses of food, he explores how cuisine shapes identity, heritage and power relations between nations. His concept of "gastronativism", which he theorized in his eponymous work, illuminates the ideological use of food to define who belongs to a community and who is excluded, a rare and powerful prism for reading the heritage tensions around the table. Former correspondent for the Italian magazine Gambero Rosso after a career as a political journalist in Asia and the Middle East, he embodies a rare complementarity between academic rigor and accessible writing.

Institution

Professeur au Department of Nutrition and Food Studies de la New York University (NYU Steinhardt)

Nationality

Italian

Website

fabioparasecoli.com