Fabio Parasecoli

Fabio Parasecoli (born in 1964) is an Italian academic and author, whose work focusses on the intersectionality of food, media and politics. He is currently a Food Studies professor at NYU Steinhardt.

Parasecoli was born in Rome, and studied contemporary Chinese history for two years in Beijing University under a graduate fellowship before obtaining a PhD in agricultural sciences with a focus on gender and nutrition from Hohenheim University. He moved to the United States of America in 1998, initially working as the US correspondent for Gambero Rosso. His writing style has been criticized as being excessively complicated. In 2018, Parasecoli started a three year long research project examining the renewed interest towards traditional, local and regional food in Poland through a grant received from the National Science Centre. In 2022 he received a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport for a project on cultural heritage and design.

Books Libano: Ritorno al Paradiso (1996). Liber Internazionale Press Food Culture in Italy (2004). Greenwood Publishing Group Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture (2008). Bloomsbury Publishing Al Dente: A History of Food in Italy (2014). Reaktion Books Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States (2016; co-authored with Laura Lindenfeld). Columbia University Press Knowing Where It Comes From: Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete in a Global Market (2017). University of Iowa Press Food (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) (2019). MIT Press Global Brooklyn: Designing food experiences in world cities (2021; co-edited with Mateusz Halawa). MIT Press Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics (2022). Columbia University Press