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Afterword: Italy represented

Peter Naccarato

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Peter Naccarato is Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Division at Marymount Manhattan College, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Zachary Nowak

Zachary Nowak (translator and editor) is pursuing his doctorate in American Studies at Harvard University, USA. He is also the Associate Director for the Food Studies Program at the Umbra Institute, in Perugia, Italy. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Elgin Eckert

Elgin Eckert

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Representing Italy Through Food

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...It is perhaps hardly surprising that three of the fourteen chapters in this volume discuss Italian pasta sauces. Sauce’s fluidity highlights the malleability of the meanings of Italian food, but this representational malleability...

Inspector Montalbano a tavola: Food in Andrea Camilleri’s police fiction

Elgin K. Eckert

Elgin K. Eckert is Assistant Professor for Italian and Cultural Studies at The Umbra Institute, Italy Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Representing Italy Through Food

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...In Andrea Camilleri’s highly popular series of crime novels featuring inspector Salvo Montalbano, food is one of the recurring elements that readers come to know and depend on. Montalbano and the descriptions of food in the narrative appear...

Theoretical Foundations and Diverse Perspectives

Francesca Ciancimino Howell

Francesca Ciancimino Howell is Adjunct Faculty in Resilient/Environmental Leadership at Naropa University, Colorado, USA Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food, Festival and Religion : Materiality and Place in Italy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...This chapter turns to a discussion of the critical theories engaged in the foundation and background of the research. Some of the theorists’ work underpinning the research ethnographies is reviewed and their theories are unpacked further...

Historic pizzerias

Antonio Mattozzi

Antonio Mattozzi is an independent scholar who has collaborated with the history department at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy, as well as the Didactic Committee for the Institute of Campania for the Resistance, Italy. He is a former high school literature teacher whose family has made pizza in Naples for over 160 years. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Donatella Mattozzi

Donatella Mattozzi

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Inventing the Pizzeria : A History of Pizza Making in Naples

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...There are only thee or four pizzerias that are referred to as “storiche” (historic) in Naples—in other words, the ones that go back to the beginning of the nineteenth century or even before and are still open today. If we add the few...

Analyses and Conclusions

Francesca Ciancimino Howell

Francesca Ciancimino Howell is Adjunct Faculty in Resilient/Environmental Leadership at Naropa University, Colorado, USA Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food, Festival and Religion : Materiality and Place in Italy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Book chapter

...The textual accounts in Chapters 3, 4 and 5 have laid the groundwork for the analyses presented in this chapter. The festivals were selected due to their distinctive qualities of performing place and place-based traditions, as well as,...

Introduction

Claudia Bernardi

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Claudia Bernardi is a Senior Lecturer in Italian at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Francesca Calamita

Francesca Calamita is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, USA Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Daniele De Feo

Daniele De Feo is Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society : Eve’s Sinful Bite

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...The multifaceted relationship between women and food in Western culture is captured by the Christian myth of the Fall narrated in Genesis with the well-known episode of Eve and the apple. Eve’s sinful bite represents a key symbolic meeting...

Conclusion

Francesca Ciancimino Howell

Francesca Ciancimino Howell is Adjunct Faculty in Resilient/Environmental Leadership at Naropa University, Colorado, USA Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food, Festival and Religion : Materiality and Place in Italy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...This section concludes by examining how the principal research questions on festival, materiality of place, lived religious traditions and foodways in Italy have been interrogated and answered. The book’s research and Italian fieldwork have...

Materiality, Things and Power

Francesca Ciancimino Howell

Francesca Ciancimino Howell is Adjunct Faculty in Resilient/Environmental Leadership at Naropa University, Colorado, USA Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food, Festival and Religion : Materiality and Place in Italy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...Place is powerful and active. It entangles intimately with lived religion, ecology, foodways and festivals. The Italian fieldwork and research presented in this book investigate how bonds with landscape and community...

Italianità in America: The cultural politics of representing “authentic” Italian cuisine in the U.S.

Ken Albala

Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific and chair of the Food Studies MA program in San Francisco. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Representing Italy Through Food

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...This chapter does not recount the story of Italian immigrants and Italian-American cuisine which has been well traversed by historians such as Hasia Diner, Donna Gabbaccia, Joel Denker, and others; rather, it examines the changing ways...

An Exotic American in Italy: 1573

Italy and the Potato: A History, 1550–2000

Continuum, 2012

Book chapter

...If the crisis of 1816–17 saw the third ‘introduction’ of the potato in Italy, and not an entirely successful one at that, when was the first? The earliest detailed, first-hand Italian description of the potato gives us an idea. It comes...