On 9 December, Federico Bossone, the Editor-in-Chief of the latest issue of Diffractions, introduced the contents of No. 10, “You are what you eat”: On food, culture(s) and identities.
This issues considers the complex relationship between food, identity and culture. As Bossone points out, “food is not a neutral or purely sensory object but a powerful cultural medium—capable of negotiating and renegotiating heritage, contesting belonging, and acting as a means for humankind to perform status and shared ideologies […]. Its value lies in being a bearer of memories and a marker of identities. Whether examined through aesthetic practice, historical transformation, migratory flows, or ideological frameworks, food culture explores the tensions between the personal and collective, the local and global, the traditional and the innovative.” (2025, 1) The issue sets a diverse intellectual table including food memories, practices, and the ethics and politics of food, through the reflection by 9 international scholars and the artwork “Patuá: Where Portugal Meets Macau” by Eduardo Melo.
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