On Food & Culture
Food is direct cultural memory; it nourishes as it keeps us alive and connects us to the past — our own, our families,’ our communities.’ Our media is also direct cultural memory. It has the fierce ability to nourish our consciousness just as powerfully and […]
Notes on Cookingthree-minute interviews with chefs, filmmakers and food activists This week Chef Iliana De La Vega, acclaimed authority on Mexican Cuisine, explains the Spanish and Arab influences on Mexican Cuisine. Noting her philosophy of food, she advocates not covering up flavors with heavy lard […]
notes on cooking… a series of video shorts “critical thinking about food and its meanings” 3 minutes with a chef, filmmaker or food activist. The series covers trends in food pathways, food conglomerates, kitchens, farms, labor and entertainment. Issues about social justice and the cultivation […]
“Semiotics Of The Kitchen” by Martha Rosler is a wonderfully severe, humorous early feminist video about cooking. Part of the collection at the Museum of Modern Art, the video is a performance by Martha Rosler who takes on the role of an apron-clad housewife and […]
Just wanted to make this quick post about the 2-hour documentary by Gereon Wetzel that I saw this week. “El Bulli: Cooking in Progress” is beginning to screen in theatres here in the US and the critics are somewhat tepid about it. I loved the […]
Cooking delicious Mexican food is at the heart of justice and mercy. “El Tren de las Moscas” is a 14-minute video that truly grips. One of those gems of art that keeps hope alive that art is well and growing. I always ask: “Can there […]
Last night Stewart and Karen Hoover took me (as in treated me) to dinner at Frasca one of the region’s highly acclaimed restaurants. The Northern-Italian-inspired food is fresh, direct, but subtle and I found the subtlety hugely enjoyable. The trend in many fine dining restaurants […]
The Edible Metaphor is the title of a lecture given by Peter Kubelka at the Berlin Talent Campus. An avant-garde filmmaker, Peter Kubelka explores the relationship between food and film. According to Kubelka, “…everybody who makes films should also cook. Cooking is performing art, and […]
It’s been a long dry spell of non-blogging but now I’m back into a routine of cyber access. Para mis amigos en América Latino les recuerdo inscribirse para participar en el congreso nacional de software libre en Chile. This week I shared with friends the […]
Max sent me this link to the commercial that aired during the superbowl because it reminded him of the documentary that I mentioned here a week ago, Rafael Salaberry’s piece about bilingual, two-way education here in Houston. The angry voices that punished me for speaking […]