Grazia Ting Deng. Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2024. 288 … More
Category: Italy
Review: National Dish
Anya von Bremzen. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home. New York: … More
Review: Vino
Campanale, Joe, and Joshua David Stein. Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine. Clarkson Potter, 2022. 320 pp. ISBN … More
Review: Food Festivals
Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology. Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. London: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN #978-3-030-53321-2. … More
Review: Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia
Carole Counihan. Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia: Place, Taste, and Community. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. Pp. i-176. ISBN 9781474262286 (hardback) … More
“I Remember the Day I said ‘Okay, I’ve Read Everything,’” an Interview with Carole Counihan
David Sutton Here is the second in my series of video interviews with food anthropologists. This one is with Dr. … More
The Message(s) In the Bottle (or Keg)
Amy Trubek with Elisa Ascione and Manuel Barbato Why am I in Umbria spending time with craft brewers and tasting … More
Review: Authentic Italian
Di Maio, Dina M. Authentic Italian. The Real Story of Italy’s Food and Its People. ISBN#13:978-0-9996255-0-7 Francesca Gobbo University of … More
There is no such thing as spaghetti bolognaise: The rights and wrongs of a ragù
Markus Bell Arguably Italy’s most famous dish, certainly the one most likely to appear on the children’s menu in your … More
The Amatriciana per Amatrice Campaign: Reflections on Food, Solidarity, and the Earthquake in Central Italy
Elisa Ascione and Michael A. Di Giovine In the early hours of August 24, 2016, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocked … More
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