The Other Gourmand
Gastronomic sociologist, between Lisbon and the Dolomites. Food Heritage PhD candidate at the University of Coimbra (Mountain Foodways)
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Overtourism VS overTRUISM (opens the original)
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We should start being more honest with the fellow Norther European and, by extension, Mayflower-sprouting US and Canadians (non-natives/FirstNations). I call them The Global North. We should be more honest, but our countries (Central, East/West-Southern Europe) have decided that the ebst way to make money is to invest in “tourism”. We, the people of said countries, are not entirely sure of it: our degrees (from medicine to engineering, from sociology to physics) are rendered useless due to the d
Ilenia's Gluten-Free Tiramisu (opens the original)
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As a Swiss mountain ranger, she is the happiest, hiking around with her beautiful samoyed puppy. She deserves a break from all that walking, and this tiramisu is our joint recipe: we made it together on 31st December 2016, in Vienna, the day before I went to the New Year’s Concert of the Wiener Philharmoniker. A dream came true, like this gluten and lactose-free tiramisu. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB-n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progre
One year into my PhD journey (opens the original)
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One year of lessons and classes. We kicked off with a seminar on Food Cultures, Identities and Heritage, learning how to study food and food practices as products and producers of diverse cultural identities, and how to analyse food cultures as expressions of heritage and objects of patrimonialisation. In parallel, we attended the seminar on Research Methodologies in Food Heritage and Cultures, aimed at creating capacities for the design, planning, and development of theoretical and empirical st
Eat Like a Saint: Saint Claire of Assisi (opens the original)
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A Green-haired Cook (opens the original)
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