Italians and Food

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sassatelli, Roberta (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Consumption and Public Life
• Subjects: Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Culture.; Ethnology-Europe.; Self and Identity.; Sociology of Culture.; European Culture.

This book is a novel and original collection of essays on Italians and food. Food culture is central both to the way Italians perceive their national identity and to the consolidation of Italianicity in global context. More broadly, being so heavily symbolically charged, Italian foodways are an exce...