Fabio Parasecoli | |
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Born | 1964 | (age 60)
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome (1988), University of Naples "L'Orientale" (1991) and Hohenheim University (2009) |
Occupation(s) | Academic and author |
Website |
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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. [1] [2]
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. [2] He later worked as a professor at The New School, before moving to NYU Steinhardt. [1] His 2008 book Bite Me! Food in Popular Culture was praised as "a necessary addition to the analysis of the popular and the edible". [3] His writing style has been criticised as being excessively complicated. [4] 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. [5] In 2022 he received a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport for a project on cultural heritage and design. [6]