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(More customer reviews)Long, a folklorist, provides the keystone to culinary tourism in the introduction and first chapter of this compilation of essays. In lucid prose, she lays out an excellent theoretical framework for positioning culinary tourism amidst other cultural practices. This framework includes defining culinary tourism as the "foodways of an other," broadening the scope of what we mean by "other," and unpacking key terms like "foodways." Although her approach is ostensibly "cultural construction"--she targets the social character of food--she displays an erudite and intimate relationship with culinary tourism that opens up theorizing to postcolonial, postmodern, posthuman approaches as well.
The essays build on her work and are equally well written, perhaps with Long's editorial stamp.
My only qualm is that culinary tourism is never historically situated, at least not with any great detail. It is hard to find a genealogy of culinary tourism: does modern culinary tourism arise in the mid-nineteenth century with mass tourism in England, or perhaps after World War II with a new global food regime? Perhaps Long intended these questions to be taken up by her readers.
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