Cooking Memes book by Alessandro Mininno

Cooking Memes  by Alessandro Mininno is a singular book about food.

Published by Brescia-based Krisis Publishing who describe themselves as 'interested in the entanglement of theory, fiction, media and beliefs that invites us to see the world as it really is not'.

Over almost 500 pages the author collects food memes from a surreal digital landscape where food is reduced to an image, a slogan, or a remix, and becomes a lens through which to observe the sociopolitical tensions running through culture, economics and power. Culinary meme culture, Alessandro Mininno says, operates as an unruly semiotic system that cements stereotypes and subverts them, displays identities and dissolves them, and employs irony as an analytical tool. 

Pizza, carbonara, matcha, and vegan sushi don't just sit there looking innocent—they're flashpoints for class, gender, ethnicity, political stance, and how you want the world to see you. This gloriously unfiltered archive grabs fragments without apology, because even the most unhinged food meme deserves its place as a snapshot of right now.

Krisis Publishing, 2026 
Softcover, 496pp 
190 x 120mm