The New Gastronomes

Maybe you consider yourself a food neophiliac, relishing the moment to demonstrate gastronomic bravery. Maybe you claim to eat anything in the world except for okra. Or, like many of us at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, you wear these experiences as badges of honour. You may indulge in statements like, “Yes I too have [...]

Within the bubble that is life as a UNISG Food Culture student in Parma/Colorno, the primary social network is your 23 fellow students. When we are at Uni we have six hours of class, eat lunch together, and in our spare time socialise in smaller groups. On stage it’s togetherness-plus, with between 3 and 7 [...]

Sunny Sicily, east coast
food, culture, pastries.
citrus, nuts, ass and beef. baked.
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Apart from endlessly eating, a UNISG student does an awful lot of sitting. There’s six hours of patiently sitting in class every day, one and a half hours’ sitting on the bus between Parma and Colorno and then another three hours in the evening sitting in front of the computer, or the barman.
But what really [...]

We weave our way along the shoddy paved roads that lead from the Cretan capital city of Heraklion to Anogeia, the highest village on the island. Hills rise and fall and the sun flutters in a cloud-filled sky. Our beat-up white Citron van slowly putt-putts up the increasingly steep road leading out of Anogeia to [...]

It is dusk, late summer in north county Dublin. My mother is in her garden picking caterpillars from a gooseberry bush. I am five, or maybe six because I am confident on this blue bicycle with two white tyres – a ‘dido’ it’s called, but I don’t know why. My brother is in front of [...]