... to fail, perhaps unknowingly, in local eyes. Keywords: authenticity, ethics, legalism and moralism, performance, China, Greece, Italy, Thailand RESEARCH ARTICLE | Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University GASTRONOMICA: THE JOURNAL OF CRITICAL FOOD STUDIES, VOL. 19, NUMBER 1, PP. 1 13, ISSN 1529-3262...

... and production in a country long known for its wine, its economic success at a time of ongoing and severe economic crisis in Italy, and the ways in which a love of drinking beer is driving many to choose to make it. Drawing on extensive survey data among craft brewers, ethnographic research, and interviews...

...Cristina Grasseni The reinvention of food is also a matter of re-localization. This means rethinking food chains in terms of their spatiality. This article deals with milk and cheese and their reinvention in Italy through two distinct, even opposing, strategies: automatization and face-to-face...

...Tracey Heatherington This essay samples situated perspectives on food, history, and landscape in the Mediterranean. Reflecting on moments of ethnographic research made resonant by particular tastes, it considers how sustainable foodscapes on the island of Sardinia, Italy, are rooted in both family...