Fabio Parasecoli

Fabio Parasecoli is associate professor and director of Food Studies Initiatives at the New School in New YorkCity. After covering Middle and Far Eastern political issues, he wrote for many years as the U.S. correspondent for Gambero Rosso, Italy's authoritative food and wine magazine.  His research explores the intersections among food, media, and politics, particularly in popular culture. He is author of Bite Me! Food in Popular Culture (Links to an external site.) (2008) and Al Dente: A History of Food in Italy (Links to an external site.) (2014), translated into Italian in 2015. He is co-editor of the six-volume Cultural History of Food (Links to an external site.) (2012). His present book projects are 
Unequal Territories: Food, Place, and Power in the Global Market (forthcoming 2017) and Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films, and Cultural Identity in the U.S. (forthcoming November 2016). In his blog on the Huffington Post (Links to an external site.) Parasecoli explores food, media, and contemporary issues.