This is Your Brain on Food by Uma Naidoo (2025)

Nicola Perullo, "Food"

Glossary of Morphology, 2020

Draft of "Food" in "Glossary of Morphology" edited by F. Vercellone and S. Tedesco

“A Sign of Life”: The Role of Food in Contemporary Prose by Romanian Women Writers

Food Cultures across Time, 2021

In the past, critics considered that literature and food had very little in common. Even today, some critics believe that the study of their relationship is strictly part of cultural studies and has nothing to do with aesthetic values. However, literary criticism has slowly been influenced by the field of food culture. What is food doing in novels, diaries or memoirs? Why has food garnered narrative attention? Among the reasons for the explosion of food culture, Carole M. Counihan and Penny Van Esterik (2013) list feminism and women’s studies, the politicization of food, the social movements linked to food, and its relevance for the scholarly mill. There may be other factors. The present article explores this relationship in contemporary Romanian fiction by women writers, with the purpose of identifying critical points of suture between the two fields, pertinent both to private and public spheres. By drawing on Romanian literary criticism, recent translation theory related to food culture and ecology, translation statistics as an expression of intercultural consumption, and theory about food culture, it suggests that contemporary women writers employ the force of direct or indirect confession to depart from resignation or denial, to create consciousness-raising literary experiences and to give examples of creative moral truths.

Review of "Patima si Desfatare" by Ioana Baciu

HSS, 2016

[co-translator] Appetites for Thought, by Onfray

Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher’s banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging from fillet of cod to barley soup, from sausage to wine and coffee. Tracing the edible obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, Onfray considers how their ideas relate to their diets. Would Diogenes have been an opponent of civilization without his taste for raw octopus? Would Rousseau have been such a proponent of frugality if his daily menu had included something more than dairy products? Onfray offers a perfectly Kantian critique of the nose and palate, since “the idea obtained from them is more a representation of enjoyment than cognition of the external object.” He exposes Nietzsche’s grumpiness—really, Nietzsche grumpy?—about bad cooks and the retardation of human evolution, and he explores Sartre’s surrealist repulsion by shellfish because they are “food buried in an object, and you have to pry them out.” A fun romp through the culinary likes and dislikes of our most famous thinkers, Appetites for Thought will intrigue, provoke, and entertain, and it might also make you ponder a bite to eat.

“You’ll even eat fire”: Food in Contemporary Prose by Romanian Women Writers

JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, 2017

The following article is a brief exploration of several depictions of food and their functions in seven literary works, authored by contemporary women writers born in Romania and published over the last two decades: Exuviae (1997) by Simona Popescu, Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta (1999) by Aglaja Veteranyi, The Girl from the Oblong House (2006) by Ana Maria Sandu, Burying the Typewriter (2010) by Carmen Bugan, Lenka (2010) by Elena Netcu, 42 Cățelu Road (2012) by Alina Nedelea and Dogs With Bagels (2013) by Maria Elena Sandovici. These seven writers approach various themes in which food representations play different roles in describing life during and after the communist decades, either in Romania or abroad, in EU countries or in the USA, which reveals important changes in mentality and attitudes. For research purposes, these roles are grouped in four categories: ritual and sacrifice; space and boundaries; production and trade; last but not least, language, writing and creativity. While Popescu, Sandu and Netcu write their novels from within the former communist bloc, Veteranyi’s, Bugan’s, Sandovici’s and Nedelea’s books offer the perspective of those who left the country before or soon after 1989, with their families or by themselves, for whom food scarcity and general poverty were reasons of departure.

Before Our Very Eyes by Dapo Adelugba, Ed

Ufahamu a Journal of African Studies, 1988

Ygdrasil - Vol 4 , No. 10 - October 1996 - EGO NON MI ASSOLVO by Rita Stilli

Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts, 1996

INTRODUCTION...................................Rita Stilli Ego non mi assolvo.............................I can't absolve myself Non ho chiesto di me...........................I don't ask about my self Un filo di attesa..............................A thread of waiting Amara risposta.................................Bitter reply La mano tesa...................................The outstretched hand Domani.........................................Tomorrow Leggerezza.....................................Lightness Alla deriva....................................Adrift La maschera bagnata............................The wet mask Il vento della scelta..........................The wind of choice L'eco del silenzio.............................The Echo of silence Lasciatemi.....................................Let me ... Soave..........................................Sweetness Tutto e' asciugato.............................Everything is dry Senza oltre....................................Without over Il rischio di vincere..........................The risk of winning Quando un sogno dorme..........................When a dream sleeps La tregua......................................The truce E alla fine....................................And ... at last ... Adriana........................................Adriana Bugie..........................................Lies Macchie di lacrime.............................Spots of tears Frammenti di riflessi..........................Fragments of reflexes L'ultima poesia................................The Ultimate poetry L'immagine ingannata...........................The Cheated Image Quel tappeto...................................That carpet Tempo perso....................................Lost time Leggere........................................Read Senza data.....................................Without date La vita in faccia..............................Life in Your Face L'ultimo rifugio...............................The last shelter L'ombra dell'assenza...........................The shadow of absence E..............................................And... Non resta che tacere...........................Don't Remain Silent Nulla..........................................Nothing Ad ogni costo..................................At all costs Non Capisco....................................I don't understand Ogni notte.....................................Every night Punto interrogativo............................Question point Dove...........................................Where Lieve e' il silenzio...........................Silence is sweet POST SCRIPTUM Rendezvous..................................Rita Stilli

Mind - by Eric Matthews

Philosophical Books, 2007

Buzan Tony - Use Your Head

Mutfakta El Lezzeti̇ Mi̇ Maki̇ne Lezzeti̇ Mi̇ (Hand or Machine Taste in the Kitchen)

Journal of gastronomy, hospitality and travel, 2023