Mukbang Videos and the War of Raging Appetites
The fundamental appeal of a mukbang video, then, is the promise of satisfaction through excess.

The fundamental appeal of a mukbang video, then, is the promise of satisfaction through excess.

When convenience is the highest good, we’re minimizing the time that we spend preparing and eating food, but it’s unclear what we’re saving time in order to do.

The tragedy of food waste is deeper than statistics about greenhouse gas emissions and money wasted. The story of most food waste is poor stewardship.

Consumerism is eating us alive. Save yourself! Save the world! Read this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

To critique a show, or an institution, or a dear friend can be an act of love.

By turning the cameras onto his guests, Bourdain revealed to his audience a world at once vastly diverse, painfully complex, and beautifully human.

The church has far too often failed to critique the way our culture shames the bodies of those outside the ideal and given theological weight to claims that some bodies are more godly than others.

When we eat with attention to the role of food in creation, by taking the physical world around us into our own bodies, we come to know more fully the God who created us and who created the world that feeds us.

In many ways, the story of Korean food and culture in my life, with its Kentucky Baptist roots, is the story of how we travel through the world.

Why do we fight with our food? Read about a few of those reasons in this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

It is over food that we relax, share our stories, our hopes, and often our dreams; we debate politics and argue sports over drinks and snacks; it can be argued that when food is present, we are most human.

We’re dishing on dishes of cultural cuisine in this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

For all our dietary awareness these days, one thing we don’t consider much is that our food has a backstory. While obsessing about gluten and fat and carbs, we are neglecting the culture and history and heritage.

The spicy sweetness of hot cross buns holds the juxtaposition of this odd day—while we mourn the darkness, we know the light is on its way.

Write for our digital magazine! Submit a pitch by 3/22 for a feature article on the theme of cultural cuisine.

We devote huge amounts of time and energy guilting each other over what we eat.
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