{"product_id":"alessandro-mininno-cooking-memes","title":"Alessandro Mininno: Cooking Memes","description":"\u003cp\u003eKrisis Publishing, 2026, softcover, 496 pages, 12 x 19 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCooking Memes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e collects food memes from a surreal digital landscape. Food, reduced to an image, a slogan, or a remix, becomes a lens through which to observe the sociopolitical tensions running through culture, economics, and power. Culinary meme culture operates as an unruly semiotic system: it cements stereotypes and subverts them, displays identities and dissolves them, and employs irony as an analytical tool.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePizza, carbonara, matcha, and vegan sushi appear not as neutral objects, but as focal points for class, gender, ethnicity, political affiliation, and self-representation. This open archive gathers fragments without deference, suggesting that even the most unhinged food meme can serve as a historical document of the present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60332501434752,"sku":null,"price":24.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/images_29.jpg?v=1793964119","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/alessandro-mininno-cooking-memes","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}