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]

Books

• Libano: Ritorno al Paradiso (1996). Liber Internazionale Press ISBN 978-8880040422
• Food Culture in Italy (2004). Greenwood Publishing Group ISBN 978-0313327261
• Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture (2008). Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN 9781847884534
• Al Dente: A History of Food in Italy (2014). Reaktion Books ISBN 978-1780232768
• Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States (2016; co-authored with Laura Lindenfeld). Columbia University Press ISBN 978-0231172509
• Knowing Where It Comes From: Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete in a Global Market (2017). University of Iowa Press ISBN 9781609385330
• Food (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) (2019). MIT Press ISBN 978-0262537315
• Global Brooklyn: Designing food experiences in world cities (2021; co-edited with Mateusz Halawa). MIT Press ISBN 978-1350144477
• Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics (2022). Columbia University Press ISBN 978-0231202077