Food Anthropology: Chitalian Cuisine
Last week, as part of a class on food anthropology, we all had to conduct an ethnographic study of a food production place in town using participant-observation methods (read: hanging out and...
View ArticleRecipe: Banana and Chestnut Bread, or a Celebration of Baking Powder in Italy
One of the (many) ironies of living in Italy is that I barely twitch my eyebrows at the products that gourmets fantasize about (white truffles, Barolo wine) because they are here in abundance, while...
View ArticleFinding Sticky Gold: The Greatest Grocery Store in Bra
Publication forthcoming in the January 2011 edition of the UNISG newsletter The discontent arrived in fits and starts. Mere days after arriving in Italy, I stood crestfallen at the market, valiantly...
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