Representing Italy Through Food

Peter Naccarato is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College, USA Zachary Nowak is Associate Director for the Food & Sustainability Program at The Umbra Institute, Italy Elgin K. Eckert is Assistant Professor for Italian and Cultural Studies at The Umbra Institute, Italy

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Acknowledgments

Editors' Introduction: Presenting Food, Representing Italy
Peter Naccarato (Marymount Manhattan College, USA), Zachary Nowak, and Elgin Eckert (The Umbra Institute, Italy)

Part I: (Re)presenting Iconic Italy

1. The Belated Revenge of Today’s Farmers
Massimo Montanari (University of Bologna, Italy)

2. Authenticity all’italiana: Food Discourses, Diasporas, and the Limits of Cuisine in Contemporary Italy
Aliza Wong (Texas Tech University, USA)

3. Slow Food Movement and Facebook: The Paradox of Advocating Slow Living through Fast Technology
Ginevra Adamoli (Independent Scholar, Italy)

Part II: Representing Italy in Literature and Film

4. Casalinghitudine: Recipes for Political History
Ernesto Livorni (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

5. Inspector Montalbano a tavola: Food in Andrea Camilleri’s Police Fiction
Elgin Eckert (The Umbra Institute, Italy)

6. There’s a Mobster in the Kitchen: Cooking, Eating, and Complications of Gender in Mafia Movies and Television
Peter Naccarato (Marymount Manhattan College, USA)

7. In cibo veritas: Food Preparation and Consumption in Ozpetek’s “Queer” Films Elgin Eckert and Zachary Nowak (The Umbra Institute, Italy)
Part III: Marketing, Packaging, and Advertising Italy
9. Semiotics of Sauce: National Identity and Naming of Pasta Sauces Maryann Tebben (Bard College, USA)
10. Producing Consumers: How 1950’s Food Advertisements in La cucina italiana Evoke and Create Gendered Bodies Diana Garvin (Cornell University, USA)
11. A Kitchen with a View: Perspectives on Italian Gender Roles in Barilla Food Commercials 1950-1970 Antonella Valoroso (The Umbra Institute, Italy)
Part IV: Global Representations of Italy
12. Italian Food in the United States Ken Albala (University of the Pacific, USA)
13. Leggo’s not-so-Autentico: Toward an Alternative Account of 20th Century Italo-Australian Foodways Rachel Ankeny & Tania Cammarano, University of Adelaide, Australia
14. Italian Food in Israel: Stuffing Up in an Imagined Mediterranean Nir Avieli (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
15. Afterword: Italy Represented Peter Naccarato (Marymount Manhattan College, USA), Zachary Nowak, and Elgin Eckert (The Umbra Institute, Italy)
Bibliography
Index