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Book Review: The Great Debate about Art

The massification of food TV shows and magazines as well as lines of designer cookware evidence the contextualization of the culinary within consumer capitalism. It is difficult to ignore this now bloated industry as it instructs in good taste and parades appealing ‘food identities’ pre-designed to satisfy and stimulate more demand. This cuts to the point: embodied within the glossy images of feta-stuffed red peppers, pan-seared tuna steaks, and chocolatedipped strawberries are values and drives. What often goes unnoticed are the subtle ways that food practices can reify nationalist discourses and stabilize subjectivities, forming relationships between social semiotic orders and the materiality of the body. In other words, if ‘you are what you eat’, then you are not just materially constituted by food but socially constituted as well. This is precisely how Cecilia Novero, thinks about food in her new book, Antidiets of the Avant-Garde. And this is precisely why Antidiets is timely; read from today’s food-obsessed perspective, revisiting the subversive movements of the avant-garde is a much-needed dirty finger stuck right in the center of the new celebrity-chef-pie.