A few days ago I had the opportunity to interview Maciej Blatkiewicz, a well-known food critic in Poland, the owner of a popular YouTube channel (292,000 subscribers as of March 13, 2023) which has existed since 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA4aEii08Mk The purpose of the conversation was to find the relationship between the habits learned from the family home and pushing one's own habitual boundaries during several years of professional work directly related to food testing. I also wanted to find out how Maciej opened up to new flavors, and whether his choices and eating habits have changed. What did he pay attention to when...

The menu, like most movies lately, is a hybrid of genres. On the one hand, it is a parody of culinary programs, where the preparation of dishes and their presentation resembles a show of the latest Victoria's Secret products - you simply cannot take your eyes off the sense of the spectacle, as well as the form or (as the charismatic psychopath chef mentions in the film) the consistency of what what we see. On the other hand, it is a comedy with a strong accent of satire, because it is a mockery of the catering industry and its side...

Knowledge is a collection of information and facts that you accept as true. However, if you accept some things as true, it means that you believe other things to be false. So epistemology focuses on the criteria that prove knowledge. The first question is how can you find that truth. If you believe you can reach it through your senses, you are an empiricist. On the other hand, if you believe you can arrive at the truth by reason, you are a rationalist. The second question relates to the object of truth. If you believe that the object of this truth...

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Brazilian food photographer Sergio Coimbra has become one of the most popular professionals among chefs around the world with his signature work and stunning food photography. His career began more than 10 years ago with advertising photos, food catalogs and food campaigns.“Of course chefs are artists,” states Coimbra. “Food is an art in the hands of these professionals who push the boundaries to the next level by creating great recipes with rich aesthetics,” he adds. The Brazilian photographer argues that since we painted the first still lifes, we have learned to see the artistic value of food, which chefs have...

The inspiration for the creation of the cards is the philosophy of Satoyama a uniquely Japanese brand of environmentalism Japanese chef Yoshihiro Narisawa and his passion for “bringing nature to the plate.” And the book "Wild Kitchen" by Łukasz Łuczaj. Composition materials grew up around my house. Photo plants include hairy bittercress and dandelion. As a background, there was moss, stones from the garden, and bark from a tree found on a walk. I am satisfied with the first attempts. ...

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Łukasz Łuczaj - Polish botanist, Ph.D. in biological sciences, academic lecturer, head of the Department of Botany at the University of Rzeszów, popularizer of science, video blogger and nature conservation activist, author of publications on wild edible plants.His research interests include primarily plant ecology and ethnobotany, which is also related to folk taxonomy and wild edible plants. He is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journals "Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine" and "Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae" and the creator of the new Polish journal "Etnobiologia Polska". Scientifically, he organizes archival ethnobotanical data from Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and...

Food research is the critical study of food and its contexts in science, art, history, society, and other fields. It differs from other fields of study related to food, such as nutrition, agriculture, gastronomy, and culinary arts, because it goes beyond the consumption, production, and aesthetic appreciation of food and seeks to illuminate food as it relates to a huge number of academic majors. It is therefore a field that engages and attracts philosophers, historians, scientists, literary scholars, sociologists, art historians, anthropologists, and others.It is an interdisciplinary and growing field, and as such, there is a significant intersection of academic...

Michael Kevin Pollan is an American writer and journalist who is currently a Professor of Non-Fiction Practice and the first Lewis K. Chan Art Lecturer at Harvard University. At the same time, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where in 2020 he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, where he runs the public education program. Pollan is best known for his books that explore the sociocultural impact of food, such as The...