Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage

Ronda L. Brulotte is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and faculty affiliate with the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. Michael A. Di Giovine is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a member of the American Anthropological Association's Task Force on Cultural Heritage.

Contents: Introduction: food and foodways as cultural heritage, Michael A. Di Giovine and Ronda L. Brulotte; Re-inventing a tradition of invention: entrepreneurialism as heritage in American artisan cheesemaking, Heather Paxson; Terroir in D.C.? Inventing food traditions for the nation's capital, Warren Belasco; Of cheese and ecomuseums: food as cultural heritage in the northern Italian Alps, Cristina Grasseni; Edible authenticities: heirloom vegetables and culinary heritage in Kyoto, Japan, Greg de St. Maurice; The everyday as extraordinary: revitalization, religion, and the elevation of cucina casareccia to heritage cuisine in Pietrelcina, Italy, Michael A. Di Giovine; Take the chicken out of the box: demystifying the sameness of African American culinary heritage in the U.S., Psyche Williams-Forson; Caldo De Piedra and claiming pre-Hispanic cuisine as cultural heritage, Ronda L. Brulotte and Alvin Starkman; Hallucinating the Slovenian way: the myth of Salamander Brandy, an indigenous Slovenian psychedelic drug, Miha Kozorog; Haute traditional cuisines: how UNESCO’s List of Intangible Heritage links the cosmopolitan to the local, Clare A. Sammells; Reinventing edible identities: Catalan cuisine and Barcelona’s market halls, Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes, Manel Guàrdia Bassols and José Luis Oyón Bañales; French chocolate as intangible cultural heritage, Susan Terrio; Daily bread, global distinction? The German bakers’ craft and cultural value-enhancement regimes, Regina F. Bendix; The Mexican and transnational lives of corn: technological, political, edible object, Erick Castellanos and Sarah Bergstresser; Cultural heritage in food activism: local and global tensions, Carole Counihan; Index.