Titlebook: Italians and Food; Roberta Sassatelli Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Natur

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Introduction: Food, Foodways and Italianicity,ns mark their national identity and to the consolidation of Italianicity in a global context. However, gastronomic identity, just like other aspects of identity, is a continuous construction that consolidates through practice across history and geography rather than an essence to be discovered in a

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The Invention of Authentic Italian Food: Narratives, Rhetoric, and Media, as changing performances of Italian identities both abroad and in Italy. Narratives and rhetoric devices in communication forms as diverse as advertising, marketing, memoirs, magazines, film, and TV shows have played a central role in constructing contemporary ideas about Italian food. Ideas about

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Italian Diasporic Identities and Food,igrant groups and mobile people, who carry with them their food habits and cultures and change those of their places of destination. The Italian case is paradigmatic: the proletarian diaspora of the nineteenth–twentieth century was the most important means of diffusion of a culinary model that penet

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Locating Italianicity Through Food and Tourism: Playing with Geographical Associations,ation. This chapter aims to explore the scalar geographical associations—particularly the ‘local’ and the ‘national’—that connote Italianicity as it emerges in food performances in the context of tourism. The discussion begins by examining the construction, circulation and consumption of food of loc

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Food Consumption and Food Activism in Italy,s and Cagliari (Sardinia) in the 2010s, it ponders how three specific characteristics of Italian food consumption habits contribute to people’s willingness and ability to resist the agro-industrial food system: the centrality of commensality, the devotion to taste and sensory pleasure, and the commi

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Good Food and Nice People: Hospitality and the Construction of Quality Among the Italian Middle Claearch project, extracting from approximately 400 hours of interviews with middle-class families from the North of Italy. In particular, we consider how these families bestow value onto food by constructing its “quality”. Reference to the local territory is often employed to construct a notion of foo

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Not a Matter of Fame: Constructing the Local as Brand Value,ood commodity chain, is the territory of our chapter. We shall, in fact, consider DegustiBo, a local seal of quality set up by the Bologna Province, and the way it organizes the local in an attempt to help small, local, traditional food producers to face global foodways, culture and chains. Focusing

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Cookbooks and the Representation of Italian Ways of Food,hrough that text, becomes something else. Looking deeper into this other thing it transforms into is not to be taken for granted. In this regard it may be useful to recall on what Arjun Appadurai wrote in ., when he defined recipes as: “humble literature of complex civilisation” and “revealing artef

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Roberta Sassatellimpact in a clear and accessible language, using the adequate tools in order to facilitate the spread of information among a larger audience. But when we refer to medicine and biology, this turns out to be even more important because is one area that impacts directly on all citizens, independently if