Culinary Citizen, Episode 6: Dr. Johanna Mendelson Forman
Sam and Kelsey chat with Dr. Johanna Mendelson Forman about food, conflict, immigration, refugees, and food security.
Culinary Citizen Episode 5: News Roundup
This week, Kelsey and Sam talk about what’s been going on in the world of culinary diplomacy, from culinary nation branding in Ethiopia and Thailand, to a multicultural cook-off involving museum chefs in Melbourne. Take a listen! If you have … Continued
Culinary Citizen Episode 4: Professor Darra Goldstein
This week, Sam and Kelsey chat with Professor Darra Goldstein from Williams College about her many cookbooks (including her newest, Fire + Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking, as well as earlier titles like The Georgian Feast and A Taste of Russia), … Continued
Culinary Citizen Episode 3: My Lucky Tummy
This week, Kelsey and Sam talk to Adam Sudmann, founder of My Lucky Tummy, an international pop-up food court featuring cuisine from immigrant chefs in the Syracuse, NY area. Adam speaks about starting starting My Lucky Tummy through Kickstarter, working … Continued
Culinary Citizen Episode 2: Current Topics
This week we talk to Swiss practitioner Alessandra Roversi. In our discussion you will learn more about her time at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, the Club des Chefs des Chefs, and the Milan Expo 2015.
Culinary Citizen Episode 1: What is Gastrodiplomacy?
In Episode 1, we talk with Paul Rockower, one of the founders of the field of gastrodiplomacy and culinary diplomacy. Our discussion touches on definitions and origins of the field — laying the groundwork for the field and for all … Continued
Culinary Citizen Episode 0: Back to Basics
Join co-hosts Sam Chapple-Sokol and Kelsey Maher as they explore the basic elements of culinary diplomacy and discuss how their worldviews have changed due to food.
The Power of the WFP’s VoucherChef Project
The WFP’s voucher program is a perfect example of the power of food as a tool to promote cross-cultural understanding while also meeting the programme’s goal of feeding the world’s hungry.
Culinary Colonialism, or, Pour Quoi Bánh Mì?
This is a topic I’ve wanted to write about for a while, and I will dedicate more time (and deeper research) to it if I ever write a book or graphic novel or something like that. For now, though, I want to … Continued
To Johan Galtung: On Food, Culture, and Sex
I was recently approached on Twitter by Johan Galtung, the legendary scholar of peace studies and the creator of many ideas used by practitioners and students of peace and conflict: structural violence, negative vs. positive peace, and the whole concept … Continued