With her new book, Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia, cultural anthropologist Carole
Counihan makes a significant contribution to understanding the growing global movement …

This chapter examines the role of food consumption in food activism in Italy. Using data from
ethnographic fieldwork in Florence (Tuscany) in the 1980s and Cagliari (Sardinia) in the …

This chapter explores taste activism—the purposive public mobilization of the senses to
challenge the ills of the agro-industrial food system and promote local, sustainable, high …

This chapter explores the role of cultural heritage in food activism in Italy through an
ethnographic case study from the city of Cagliari on the island of Sardinia. It examines …

Sagre are festivals centered on food that are extremely popular all around Italy. In this paper,
we have explored sagre in three different settings in the Italian region of Umbria through …

This research draws from memories, and the deep sense of belonging, tradition, and
presence that is linked with a dish of Italian regional tradition; agnolotti pasta, one example …

This essay explores how food activists in Italy purposely shape food and language to
construct meaning and value. It is grounded in years of ethnographic fieldwork on food and …

This essay samples situated perspectives on food, history, and landscape in the
Mediterranean. Reflecting on moments of ethnographic research made resonant by …

Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an
important part in this romanticization–from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan …

This article provides an initial assessment of the emergence of what Italians now call street
food, in English. The relatively new and fashionable expression in a foreign language refers …