Asian Delicacies: Crisis Food and Colonial Blends

Asian Delicacies: Crisis Food and Colonial BlendsThe second food zine from Melon: Two Faces of Asian Delicacies: Crisis Food and Colonial Blends invites readers to look beyond the fashionable image of "Asian food." What appears today as cool, comforting, or exotic often carries complex histories of colonial extraction, agricultural reform, and ecological transformation. Many ingredients now circulating globally as delicacies were once emergency foods, wartime substitutes, or by products of imperial

Roxy Music

and we would be wise to learn from them

Motohiro Inaba (co-owner of the Wagashi Asobi specialty shop)

67 photos printed on Arena Smooth Ivory 140g and slot embossed (front and back cover)

she writes

but at least we are united by the knowledge that everything is broken and we seem unable to do anything about it

It is an exceptional space of cultural cooperation

which may come in the form of objects

the revolutionary Gaia paradigm holds important implications not only for understanding life's past but for shaping its future

the jazz trumpeter Don Cherry

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a reference to both Mother Earth and the self