Description
Book SynopsisFrom the history of Porta Palazzo, Western Europe's largest open-air market, to its current growing pains, this book turns an ethnographic eye on a meeting place for trade, cultural identity, and cuisine.
Trade Review"A robust, well-structured and argued book. [Rachel Black] provides us with a fresh, different slant on an urban space that, as she demonstrates, is far from being a place simply for buying and selling food." *
Anthropology of Food *
"A very readable and accessible ethnography of the Porta Palazzo open-air market in Turin, Italy." *
Journal of Modern Italian Studies *
Table of ContentsForeword
—Carlo Petrini
Introduction: Going to Market
Chapter 1. The Market as a Field
Chapter 2. The Evolution of a Market
Chapter 3. A Neighborhood, a Square, and a Market
Chapter 4. Fare la spesa: Shopping, Morality, and Anxiety at the Market
Chapter 5. Il Ventre di Torino: Migration and Food
Chapter 6. Kumalé: Ethnogastronomic Tourism
Chapter 7. Nostrano: The Farmers' Market, Local Food, and Place
Conclusion: La Piazza—City, Public Space, and Sociability
Afterword: Porta Palazzo Market and Urban Renewal
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
