{"id":18216,"date":"2025-09-11T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=18216"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:01:58","slug":"book-talk-the-pierogi-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2025\/09\/11\/book-talk-the-pierogi-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk \u2013\u00a0THE PIEROGI PROBLEM: Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Friday, September 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/steinhardt.nyu.edu\/degree\/ms-nutrition-and-dietetics-foods-and-nutrition\"><strong>New York University<\/strong><\/a> 5th Floor, Room 510<br>411 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To RSVP, use the QR code on the image or click <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/46tfioa?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBEwd0JMdUxocHQwTVFrcjdPdQEejdMJEYM2hgG4yYjhXi0hCtImuyoGwDyEOKWVx-bN2b8MvZQc-K8R4NhM1f8_aem_v4oTpaVv8cB_gNMZ4mm_vg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><br>Enjoy the book discount code <strong>UCPSAVE30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Video recording is available on&nbsp;our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sf9I78xn2Qs&amp;t=2s\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Capture-3-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Capture-3-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Capture-3-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Capture-3-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Capture-3.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The culinary landscape of Poland is significantly changing, reshaped by a new generation of food producers, chefs, and media personalities. <em>The Pierogi Problem<\/em> examines people\u2019s networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized foodie culture. The decades following the end of Poland\u2019s socialist regime were marked by a rising interest in foreign cuisines and Western forms of consumption. Today, however, ingredients, cooking techniques, and dishes that were once considered ordinary or part of the country\u2019s uncomfortable past are being refashioned to reflect transformations in cultural hierarchies. This book chronicles how and why local, traditional, and artisanal foods are reemerging for changing cosmopolitan appetites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_1462\u00a9-2023-Chuck-Fishman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18251\" style=\"width:290px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_1462\u00a9-2023-Chuck-Fishman.jpg 600w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_1462\u00a9-2023-Chuck-Fishman-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett&nbsp;<\/strong>is University Professor emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University, where she taught \u201cFood and Performance,\u201d&nbsp;a graduate seminar, for many years. She is currently&nbsp;Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw. Her books include&nbsp;<em>Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage&nbsp;<\/em>(University of California Press, 1998);&nbsp;<em>Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864\u20131939<\/em>&nbsp;with Lucjan Dobroszycki (Schocken, 1987);&nbsp;<em>They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust<\/em>&nbsp;with Mayer Kirshenblatt (University of California Press, 2007);&nbsp;<em>The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times&nbsp;<\/em>with Jonathan Karp (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), and&nbsp;<em>Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory&nbsp;<\/em>with Jeffrey Shandler (University of Indiana Press, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was awarded the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Folklore Society; honored for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture; received honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University of Haifa, and Indiana University; the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award for her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry; and was decorated with the Officer\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and awarded the Dan David Prize. She serves or has served on advisory boards for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Council of American Jewish Museums, Jewish Museum Vienna, Jewish Museum Berlin, and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, and as vice-chair of ICMEMO International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes. She also advises on museum and exhibition projects in Lithuania, Belarus, Albania, Israel, New Zealand, and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:27px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Faculty_Fabio-Parasecoli-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18253\" style=\"width:280px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Faculty_Fabio-Parasecoli-.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Faculty_Fabio-Parasecoli--300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Faculty_Fabio-Parasecoli--150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fabio Parasecoli<\/strong> is Professor of Food Studies in the Nutrition and Food Studies Department at New York University and a fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research explores the cultural politics of food, particularly in media, design, heritage, and international affairs. Recent books include Knowing Where It Comes From: Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete in a Global Market (2017), Food (2019), Global Brooklyn: Designing Food Experiences in World Cities (2021, coedited with Mateusz Halawa), Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics (2022), Practicing Food Studies (2024, coedited with Amy Bentley and Krishnendu Ray) and The Pierogi Problem: Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food (2025, coauthored with Agata Bach\u00f3rz and Mateusz Halawa).&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/fabioparasecoli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fabioparasecoli.com<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/71BD0HSDA3L._UF10001000_QL80_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18227\" style=\"width:384px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/71BD0HSDA3L._UF10001000_QL80_.jpg 667w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/71BD0HSDA3L._UF10001000_QL80_-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:52px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Through multidisciplinary collaboration and autoethnographic reflection, the authors conceptualize the cultural ambitions, culinary identities, and political entanglements of Polish \u2018tastemakers\u2019 who (re)configure the historical and sensory qualities of local foods. A must-read for food scholars.<\/em>\u2014Cristina Grasseni,&nbsp;Professor of Anthropology, Leiden University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Much work looks at how 'traditional&#8217; foods become fashionable, but&nbsp;The Pierogi Problem&nbsp;goes deeper, unraveling the aspirations and anxieties tied up in the work of curating new Polish cuisine to fit twenty-first-century global trends, tastes, and digital spaces<\/em>.\u2014Michaela DeSoucey, author of&nbsp;<em>Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The culinary landscape of Poland is significantly changing, reshaped by a new generation of food producers, chefs, and media personalities.&nbsp;<em>The Pierogi Problem<\/em>&nbsp;examines people&#8217;s networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized food culture. The decades following the end of Poland&#8217;s socialist regime were marked by a rising interest in foreign cuisines and Western forms of consumption. Today, however, ingredients, cooking techniques, and dishes that were once considered ordinary or part of the country&#8217;s uncomfortable past are being refashioned to reflect transformations in cultural hierarchies.&nbsp;<em>The Pierogi Problem&nbsp;<\/em>chronicles how and why local, traditional, and artisanal foods are reemerging for changing cosmopolitan appetites. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/the-pierogi-problem\/paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Authors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/steinhardt.nyu.edu\/people\/fabio-parasecoli\">Fabio Parasecoli<\/a><\/strong> is Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. He is&nbsp;author of numerous books, including&nbsp;<em>Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/old-en.ug.edu.pl\/pracownik\/249\/agata_bachorz\">Agata Bach\u00f3rz<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gda\u0144sk, Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc.uw.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/halawa.pdf\">Mateusz Halawa<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;is an anthropologist and&nbsp;sociologist working between academic practice and design strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The event is co-organized with the Polish Cultural Institute New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1625\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-34.png 1625w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-34-300x45.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-34-1024x154.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-34-768x115.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-34-1536x231.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1625px) 100vw, 1625px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, September 26, 2025 at 5:30 PMNew York University 5th Floor, Room 510411 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003 To RSVP, use the QR code on the image or click here.Enjoy the book discount code UCPSAVE30 Video recording is available on&nbsp;our&nbsp;YouTube. 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The Pierogi Problem examines people\u2019s networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized foodie culture. The decades following the end of Poland\u2019s socialist regime were marked by a rising interest in foreign cuisines and Western forms of consumption. Today, however, ingredients, cooking techniques, and dishes that were once considered ordinary or part of the country\u2019s uncomfortable past are being refashioned to reflect transformations in cultural hierarchies. This book chronicles how and why local, traditional, and artisanal foods are reemerging for changing cosmopolitan appetites.\\nBarbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University, where she taught \u201cFood and Performance,\u201d a graduate seminar, for many years. She is currently Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw. Her books include Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (University of California Press, 1998); Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864\u20131939 with Lucjan Dobroszycki (Schocken, 1987); They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust with Mayer Kirshenblatt (University of California Press, 2007); The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times with Jonathan Karp (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), and Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory with Jeffrey Shandler (University of Indiana Press, 2012).\\nShe was awarded the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Folklore Society; honored for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture; received honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University of Haifa, and Indiana University; the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award for her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry; and was decorated with the Officer\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and awarded the Dan David Prize. She serves or has served on advisory boards for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Council of American Jewish Museums, Jewish Museum Vienna, Jewish Museum Berlin, and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, and as vice-chair of ICMEMO International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes. She also advises on museum and exhibition projects in Lithuania, Belarus, Albania, Israel, New Zealand, and the United States.\\nFabio Parasecoli is Professor of Food Studies in the Nutrition and Food Studies Department at New York University and a fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research explores the cultural politics of food, particularly in media, design, heritage, and international affairs. Recent books include Knowing Where It Comes From: Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete in a Global Market (2017), Food (2019), Global Brooklyn: Designing Food Experiences in World Cities (2021, coedited with Mateusz Halawa), Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics (2022), Practicing Food Studies (2024, coedited with Amy Bentley and Krishnendu Ray) and The Pierogi Problem: Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food (2025, coauthored with Agata Bach\u00f3rz and Mateusz Halawa). fabioparasecoli.com\\nThrough multidisciplinary collaboration and autoethnographic reflection, the authors conceptualize the cultural ambitions, culinary identities, and political entanglements of Polish \u2018tastemakers\u2019 who (re)configure the historical and sensory qualities of local foods. A must-read for food scholars.\u2014Cristina Grasseni, Professor of Anthropology, Leiden University\\nMuch work looks at how 'traditional' foods become fashionable, but The Pierogi Problem goes deeper, unraveling the aspirations and anxieties tied up in the work of curating new Polish cuisine to fit twenty-first-century global trends, tastes, and digital spaces.\u2014Michaela DeSoucey, author of Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food\\nAbout the Book\\nThe culinary landscape of Poland is significantly changing, reshaped by a new generation of food producers, chefs, and media personalities. The Pierogi Problem examines people's networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized food culture. The decades following the end of Poland's socialist regime were marked by a rising interest in foreign cuisines and Western forms of consumption. Today, however, ingredients, cooking techniques, and dishes that were once considered ordinary or part of the country's uncomfortable past are being refashioned to reflect transformations in cultural hierarchies. The Pierogi Problem chronicles how and why local, traditional, and artisanal foods are reemerging for changing cosmopolitan appetites. More...\\nAbout the Authors\\nFabio Parasecoli is Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. 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The Pierogi Problem examines people\u2019s networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized foodie culture. The decades following the end of Poland\u2019s socialist regime were marked by a rising interest in foreign cuisines and Western forms of consumption. Today, however, ingredients, cooking techniques, and dishes that were once considered ordinary or part of the country\u2019s uncomfortable past are being refashioned to reflect transformations in cultural hierarchies. This book chronicles how and why local, traditional, and artisanal foods are reemerging for changing cosmopolitan appetites.\nBarbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University, where she taught \u201cFood and Performance,\u201d a graduate seminar, for many years. She is currently Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw. Her books include Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (University of California Press, 1998); Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864\u20131939 with Lucjan Dobroszycki (Schocken, 1987); They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust with Mayer Kirshenblatt (University of California Press, 2007); The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times with Jonathan Karp (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), and Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory with Jeffrey Shandler (University of Indiana Press, 2012).\nShe was awarded the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Folklore Society; honored for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture; received honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University of Haifa, and Indiana University; the 2015 Marshall Sklare Award for her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry; and was decorated with the Officer\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and awarded the Dan David Prize. She serves or has served on advisory boards for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Council of American Jewish Museums, Jewish Museum Vienna, Jewish Museum Berlin, and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, and as vice-chair of ICMEMO International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes. She also advises on museum and exhibition projects in Lithuania, Belarus, Albania, Israel, New Zealand, and the United States.\nFabio Parasecoli is Professor of Food Studies in the Nutrition and Food Studies Department at New York University and a fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research explores the cultural politics of food, particularly in media, design, heritage, and international affairs. Recent books include Knowing Where It Comes From: Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete in a Global Market (2017), Food (2019), Global Brooklyn: Designing Food Experiences in World Cities (2021, coedited with Mateusz Halawa), Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics (2022), Practicing Food Studies (2024, coedited with Amy Bentley and Krishnendu Ray) and The Pierogi Problem: Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food (2025, coauthored with Agata Bach\u00f3rz and Mateusz Halawa). fabioparasecoli.com\nThrough multidisciplinary collaboration and autoethnographic reflection, the authors conceptualize the cultural ambitions, culinary identities, and political entanglements of Polish \u2018tastemakers\u2019 who (re)configure the historical and sensory qualities of local foods. A must-read for food scholars.\u2014Cristina Grasseni, Professor of Anthropology, Leiden University\nMuch work looks at how 'traditional' foods become fashionable, but The Pierogi Problem goes deeper, unraveling the aspirations and anxieties tied up in the work of curating new Polish cuisine to fit twenty-first-century global trends, tastes, and digital spaces.\u2014Michaela DeSoucey, author of Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food\nAbout the Book\nThe culinary landscape of Poland is significantly changing, reshaped by a new generation of food producers, chefs, and media personalities. The Pierogi Problem examines people's networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized food culture. The decades following the end of Poland's socialist regime were marked by a rising interest in foreign cuisines and Western forms of consumption. 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