Published Online: Apr 06, 2019
Page range: 118 - 134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2019-0006
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© 2018 Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, published by Sciendo
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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.