✨ The next event in our Online Event Series is the half-baked talk “Imagining Flavors” by Benjamin Young!
🗓️ February 26th at 4:30 PM (Milan Time)
🔗 Register here to join the event: www.culinarymind.org/benjamin-young
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Newsletter 5, 2026 | Culinary Mind
Research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food. Based at University of Milan and established in 2017
✨ Issue 5 of Crumble, our philosophy of food newsletter, is now online! ✨
👉 The newsletter brings together opportunities and updates in the philosophy of food, from calls for papers and workshops to conferences, job openings, and more.
🔗 Link below!
www.culinarymind.org/issue-5-crum...
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🚀 Part II of the Online Event Series kicks off with the Half-Baked Talk “Cocktail Custodians: Recipes, Identity, & Authority” by Neil Williams.
🗓️ January 30th at 5 pm (Milan Time)
🔗 Register here to join the event: www.culinarymind.org/neil-william...
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📅 Mark your calendars!
✨ We’re excited to share the new schedule for our Online Events Series Part II
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Krishnendu Ray | Half Baked | Culinary Mind
Research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food. Based at University of Milan and established in 2017
If you couldn’t attend the half baked talk “Aftertaste of Empire: Cultural Imperialism and Asian Culinary Nationalisms” with Krishnendu Ray, you can now watch it here and share!
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www.culinarymind.org/ray-half-baked
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If you're in Milan on the 26th, come by and join us! Don’t forget to sign up at info@politelia-centrostudi.org. We look forward to seeing you there!
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✨ Don’t miss the last event of our Online Event Series: a Colloquium with Krishnendu Ray presenting “Aftertaste of Empire: Cultural Imperialism and Asian Culinary Nationalisms”.
🗓️ November 17 at 4:00 PM (Milan Time)
🔗 Register here to join the event: www.culinarymind.org/ray-half-baked
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✨ The third event in our Online Event Series is the symposium “Food and Media”, featuring Keri Matwick, Jacqui Kong, and Michelle Phillipov.
🗓️ November 4th at 9:00 AM (Milan Time)
🔗 Register here to join the event: www.culinarymind.org/foodandmedia
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Culinary Mind/Gastronomica Lecture in Philosophy of Food
Research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food. Based at University of Milan and established in 2017
✨ Together with the Gastronomica Editorial Collective, we are excited to announce the call for submissions for the inaugural Culinary Mind/Gastronomica Lecture in the Philosophy of Food, taking place in mid-March 2026.
🔗 Full details here: www.culinarymind.org/culinarymind...
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✨ The second event in our Online Event Series brings together Jane Dryden, Christopher Mayes, and Lisa Heldke for a symposium on “Food and Microbiome”.
🗓️ October 15 at 10:00 PM (Milan Time)
🔗 Register here to join the event: www.culinarymind.org/food-microbi...
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🚀The Online Event Series kicks off on September 9 with the symposium ‘Food Tourism’, presenting Eerang Park, Prima Nurahmi, and Kelsi Matwick.
🗓️ September 9 at 9:00 AM (Milan Time)
🔗 Register here to join the event: www.culinarymind.org/food-tourism
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🗓️ Mark your calendars! We’re pleased to share the schedule for Part I of the Online Event Series 2025–2026.
💌 A poster with the registration link will be shared in due course, but if you’d like to get all event links directly, sign up for our mailing list here: www.culinarymind.org/contact
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Newsletter 4, 2025 | Culinary Mind
Research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food. Based at University of Milan and established in 2017
We’re excited to share Issue 4 of Crumble: a philosophy of food newsletter! ✨
The newsletter brings together opportunities and updates in the philosophy of food—from calls for papers and workshops to conferences, job openings, and more.
🔗 Link below!
www.culinarymind.org/crumble-4-2025
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YouTube video by Culinary Mind – Center for the Philosophy of Food
Ian Werkheiser: Good Food for Good People
Resharing Ian Werkheiser’s talk “Good Food for Good People” from last year’s Half-Baked Series
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9heM...
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Resharing Tammara Soma’s talk, “Critical Food Pedagogy: The Role of Unpaid Food Work in Food Waste Prevention and Reduction", from our Spring 2024/25 Online Colloquia Series: it's available on YouTube!
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YouTube video by Culinary Mind – Center for the Philosophy of Food
Dorota Koczanowicz: Art versus the Climate Crisis: Visualizing Responsibility in Culinary Practices
Watch the recording of Dorota Koczanowicz’s talk, “Art Versus the Climate Crisis”, from our Spring 2024/25 Online Colloquia Series on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=garU...
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YouTube video by Culinary Mind – Center for the Philosophy of Food
Nicola Perullo: Is There Such a Thing as a “Food Criticism”?
Nicola Perullo’s talk, “Is There Such a Thing as a 'Food Criticism'?”, from our Spring 2024/25 Online Colloquia Series is now available to watch on YouTube!
Here’s the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1dd...
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YouTube video by Culinary Mind – Center for the Philosophy of Food
Kwabena Edusei: Cooking Immigrants with Culinary Racism: 'The White House will smell like Curry.’
The Spring 2024/25 edition of our Online Colloquia Series has concluded!
Watch all the talks on YouTube, including the last lecture in the series: “Cooking Immigrants with Culinary Racism” by Kwabena Edusei
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Yj...
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Nicola Perullo April 9, 2025 | Culinary Mind
Research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food. Based at University of Milan and established in 2017
The next session of our Half Baked online seminar will take place April 9, 2025, 5pm (CET):
Nicola Perullo (Univ. of Gastronomic Sciences): "Is there such a thing as a “food criticism”? Metacritical reflections on the difference between criticism, review, advertising, and branding"
Register here:
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MEDIA | Culinary Mind
Discover our Videos, articles, podcasts and more
Don't hesitate to consult our media archive and enjoy one of the many past talks of our Half-Baked online seminar!
www.culinarymind.org/media
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Faculty @ UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics. Writing about waste, food, health & environmental justice. Former post-doc @ UCLA Ctr for Study of Women. Human to Juniper-the-punk-kitten. Professional consumer of cake. Opinions my own
Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Reframing European Gastronomy Legacy through Innovation, Sustainability and Heritage. Project: 101177427 – RELISH – HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01. Funded by the European Union.
MD turned historian of medicine, science, food, environment | author of WONDER FOODS (@ucpress.bsky.social '22) http://shorturl.at/nuGP7 | @gastronomica.bsky.social | living in Amsterdam | #histstm #histmed #foodhistory #foodstudies | she/her
Media studies professor & faculty in residence at UTulsa // Books: Diners, Dudes & Diets (‘20) & Food Instagram (‘22) // emilycontois.com
Assistant Professor of Communication & Digital Media Studies, Ontario Tech U. I study finance, food, agriculture, and now dirt. Associate Editor at Journal of Cultural Economy.
Not ready for any labels… just trying to enjoy what’s ahead
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Medical/environmental anthropologist, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Research on global and planetary health, Sahelian grains, and everyday eating in Dakar
Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Geography of food and agriculture, Japan, chickens, disease, artisan and traditional foods. At Utsunomiya University. He/him
queer geographer extraordinaire / phd geography, minor in gender studies / food culture, race, development / philosophy of space & subjectivity / phenomenology, assemblage / queer, feminist & trans studies / DEI in HE / grant writer / editor / artist
environmental historian and writer, & asst. prof @UMaryland: Environmental justice histories, food systems, agrochemicals, & racial ecologies in Mexico & the Americas. @nacla @PlantPerspectives
Research Prof at U Texas,, author of "Stuffed and Starved", co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" http://antsandgrasshopper.org, co-author "Inflamed", out now!
FKA eatwithnia | #eattolearn
pronounced Ni-ya
I don’t eat peas or beans | Food is political | typos are seasoning | food selfies got me into a phd program | intersection of food policy & culture
Mi corazón es en Brooklyn
A Roman in NYC. Author, writer, Food Studies professor at NYU. My last book is “Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics.” Posting stuff on fabioparasecoli.com.
Professor of Dutch History, University of Amsterdam | Co-founder of SEVEN | Research Group Environment & Society
Anthropologist interested in Black Geographies | Transnational food commodity chains | Afro–Diasporic Identities | Political Economy | Political Ecology | The Anthropocene
Infodemiologist | Associate Professor | 🇲🇽🇺🇸 | Wife | Momx3 | 🐈⬛ Lover. I study media, inequality, & health especially re: food & nutrition. #healthcommunication #foodstudies #foodpolicy #AcademicSky #CommSky #CDoH
Religion. Food. TV. Dogs. Scholar of some, enthusiast for all. University of Rochester.
