Part I: Finding Global Brooklyn -- 1. Introduction: Global Brooklyn: How Instagram and Postindustrial Design Are Shaping How We Eat, Fabio Parasecoli, New York University, New York City, USA and Mateusz Halawa, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland Dispatch: Mobile Brooklyn: The Arrival of Food Trucks, Bryan Moe, Biola University, La Mirada CA, USA Part II: Exploring Global Brooklyn -- 2. Cape Town: Post-Industrial Chic in a Changing Society, Signe Rousseau, University of Cape Town, South Africa -- 3. Melbourne: Care, Ethics, and Social Enterprise Meet Global Cafe' Culture, Tania Lewis, RMIT University, Australia and Oliver Vodeb, RMIT University, Australia Dispatch: Global Zen and the Art of Local Coffee: Japanese Cafe's in the Age of Global Brooklyn, Helena Grinshpun, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel -- 4. Copenhagen: Porridge Bars, Nordic Craft Beer, and Hipster Families in the Welfare State, Jonatan Leer, University College Absalon, Roskilde, Denmark -- 5. Global Paris: Between Terroir and Hamburge's , Susan Taylor Leduc, Research Center of the Chateau of Versailles, France Dispatch - London: A Stroll in Hackney, Adriana Rosati, Independent Scholar -- 6. Rio de Janeiro: Tropical Global Brooklyn, Thiago Gomide Nasser, Junta Local, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dispatch: From Farm to Cup: The Emergence of Global Brooklyn Cafe' Culture in Thailand , Yoshimi Osawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan -- 7. Constructing New Communities: Global Brooklyn in Tel, Liora Gvion, Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel Dispatch: Accra: Who is Eating in Global Brooklyn?, JT Akai, journalist and author, Ghana -- 8. Mumbai: Importing and Glamorizing Social Values, Priyansha Jain, Independent Scholar, India -- Part III: BACK TO BROOKLYN -- 9. Brooklyn: Hipster Aesthetics, Foodways, and the Cultural Imaginary, Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, Marymount Manhattan College, New York City, USA Dispatch: Chicago: Design of Displacement, Mireya Loza, New York University, USA -- Conclusion: Thinking Food through Design, Fabio Parasecoli, New York University, USA and Mateusz Halawa, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland -- Bibliography -- Index.