Food Festivals and Expectations of Local Development in Northern Italy

Fontefrancesco, Michele Filippo

doi:10.2478/eas-2019-0006

Abstract

This essay offers an ethnographic analysis of the role of food in modern Italian food festivals. Starting from the ethnographic case of Borgonovo, a rural town in Southern Piedmont, and its festival, it highlights the nonlinear role played by food in the festivals and points out gastronomic festivals should be read as a local response of rural, and marginal communities to the phenomenon of their social marginalization.

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Food Festivals and Expectations of Local Development in Northern Italy

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