The Food that Binds (A Review)
The Food that Binds (A Review)

Summary/Abstract: While more like a book in the current sense of the word, everything in it – from its format, its cover (a watercolor by Horia Bernea, several of whose delicate pen and ink „vignettes“ are also included in the book), the quality of the paper, the ways in which images of various kinds relate to texts that are comparably diverse – makes of it an unusual book. It accompanies the recently opened exhibition at the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, devoted to Food, but it doesn’t turn – as many such publications nowadays do – into a substitute of the exhibition itself, to the point of discouraging its potential visitors from going to see it. It is, indeed, related to the display, in a close, but complementary, rather than substitutive manner.

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