ISBN:
9781785332951
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
202 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Food, Nutrition, and Culture 5
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga of Strachitunt, a cheese that has been designated an EU Protected Designation of Origin after years of negotiation and competition involving cheese-makers, merchants, and Slow Food activists. The book explores how the reinvention of cheese as a form of heritage is an ongoing and dynamic process rife with conflict and drama.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Tables, Figures and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- -- Why cheese? -- Calibrating cheese -- Post transhumant timescapes -- -- PART I: THE WAR OF THE CHEESES -- Chapter 1. Patrimonio and Tipicità -- -- The Entrepreneur as Sovereign -- The Language of Tipicità -- -- Chapter 2. Cultures of Resistance -- -- The 'Mother of all Battles': Slow Food Bitto versus PDO Bitto -- The Niche PDO: Formai de Mut -- The Unachieved PDO: Branzi -- -- Conclusion of Part I -- PART II: WE, THE PEOPLE OF VAL TELEGGIO -- Chapter 3. A geography of Opposites -- -- Straddling uplands and lowlands -- How Taleggio cheese failed the Taleggio valley -- -- Chapter 4. The Best Cheese in Italy -- -- PDO Italian Style? -- The public trial of Strachitunt -- -- Conclusion of Part II -- PART III: DULCAMARA'S SENSES -- Chapter 5. Marketing the Sensorium -- -- Slow Food and the Geometry of Val Taleggio -- Taliban and Improvers -- -- Chapter 6. Reinventing Stracchino -- -- Deciphering a Meal -- Performing Cheese -- -- Conclusion of Part III -- Conclusion -- References --
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