Jamie Oliver and the Gastrodiplomacy of Simulacra
By Francesco Buscemi
This work aims to investigate the gastrodiplomatic objectives of food travelogues on TV, and more precisely of the food travelogue Jamieʼs Great...
War and Peas: Culinary Conflict Resolution as Citizen Diplomacy
By Sam Chapple-Sokol
Food can be used as a tool of public diplomacy, variously known as culinary diplomacy, gastrodiplomacy, and diplomatic gastronomy. It remains a...
Cooking Up A Conversation: Gastrodiplomacy in Contemporary Public Art
By Carly Schmitt
Food is one of the oldest forms of exchange. Our mutual dependence on food is often cited as the most basic element...
A politician’s guide to winning the Internet (and influencing people)
It used to be easy to get the American public to pay attention to presidents. You could get the nation huddled around their radio...
Gastrodipomacy: The Case of the Embassy of Greece
Gastrodipomacy: The Case of the Embassy of Greece
By Zoe Kosmidou
In December 2013, the Embassy of Greece will begin applying the idea and theories of...
Like the cuisine, like the country
Thailand's gastro-diplomacy
THE Thai government has discovered that foreigners quite like Thai food. There are about 5,500 Thai restaurants around the world. In a plan...
U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul Blogs Farewell (Updated)
– Domani Spero
The U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael A. McFaul announced on his blog that he is stepping down from his position in Moscow...
More Russian politicians blog at their own risk
April 2, 2013 Dmitriy Romendik, special to RBTH
Having a blog is a modern trend in Russia's politics. Yet sometimes it results in high-profile scandals.
Having...
American Food 2.0: Culinary Diplomacy at Expo 2015
The theme of the 2015 Expo is food. The U.S. needs a culinary diplomacy plan that is both inclusive and exclusive.
Next year will bring...
The end of the beginning for GOV.UK
A project team in GDS is working to make sure GOV.UK can meet the needs of all its users, including specialists and professionals, when...