Melon #2 - Two Faces of Asian Delicacies: Crisis Food and Colonial Blends
This issue invites readers to look beyond the fashionable image of “Asian food.” What appears today as trendy, comforting, or exotic often carries longer histories of colonial extraction, agricultural reformation, and ecological transformation. Many ingredients that now circulate globally as delicacies were once emergency foods, wartime substitutes, or by products of imperial trade.
Contributor(s): Yen-Ting Kuan, Giulia Bellinetti, and Florian Cramer, Soyeon An
Editor: Yen-Ting Kuan
Graphic Design: Jhen Chen
Illustration: Han-Sheng Chen
Photo Credit: Florian Cramer, Camila Montenegro Pitteta, Carmen Pellon, Tom Mannion
Print: Limestone RISO
1st edition: 2024
2nd edition: 2026 January
