About the book: 2004 / “When my friend returned from his first short trip to America, I couldn’t resist my base curiosity: “And what does it look like with American? “Fast, hygienic and tasteless,” he answered. “Like fast food.” The book by the famous Serbian journalist, professor at the University of Belgrade Neda Todorovic “Food as a Kind of Sex” (2001) is a collection of gastronomic essays written during the period when a shrinking Yugoslavia found itself under strict international economic sanctions. The author emphasizes that working on the book became for her an escape from the oppressive atmosphere of unbearable reality into an area of ​​research that seemed inaccessible, fabulous, exciting and incredibly tasty. However, it turned out that it was not at all safe here. Against.