Beschreibung
This study analyzes the ways in which Italian migrants commercialized food, constructed Italianness, and articulated community cohesion in Brussels at the turn of the twentieth century by focusing on Italian food businesses and the advertisements, names, people, practices, and products involved.
Autorenportrait
Olivier de Maret teaches Food Studies at Syracuse University in Florence. His research interests cover the relationship between food, migration, and identity, the history of Italian foodways, food history, and food systems. He is a member of the research group FOST (Social & Cultural Food Studies) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where he completed his doctorate.
Inhalt
Contents: Relationship between food and migration – Migrant entrepreneurship – How food habits change – Construction of identity through foodways – Italian food, migration, and identity.
