The game of gastrodiplomacy

How governments around the world market and leverage influence through food. Words by Dan Hong. Illustration by Sinjin Li.

Good morning and welcome to Vittles Season 7: Food and Policy. Each essay in this season will investigate how a single or set of policies intersects with eating, cooking and life. Our ninth newsletter for this season is by Dan Hong. In his essay, Dan writes about ‘gastrodiplomacy’, the phenomenon in which governments use cuisine to leverage influence, a…