Garlic Capital of the World: Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making of a Festive Foodscape - Couverture souple

Adema, Pauline

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1604731214 ISBN 13 : 9781604731217

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2009

Synopsis

How a local festival celebrating the odoriferous lily gave a town a marketable identity According to Pauline Adema, you smell Gilroy, California, before you see it. In Garlic Capital of the World, the folklorist and culinary anthropologist examines the role of food and festivals in creating a place brand or marketable identity. The author scrutinizes how Gilroy, California, successfully transformed a negative association with the pungent bulb into a highly successful tourism and marketing campaign. This book explores how local initiatives led to an iconization of the humble product in Gilroy. The city, a well-established agricultural center and bedroom community south of San Francisco, rapidly built a place-brand identity based on its now-famous moniker, "Garlic Capital of the World." To understand Gilroy's success in transforming a local crop into a tourist draw, Adema contrasts the development of this now-thriving festival with events surrounding the launch and demise of the PigFest in Coppell, Texas. Indeed, the Garlic Festival is so successful that the event is all that many people know about Gilroy. Adema explores the creation and subsequent selling of foodscapes or food-themed place identities. This seemingly ubiquitous practice is readily visible across the country at festivals celebrating edibles like tomatoes, peaches, spinach, and even cauliflower. Food, Adema contends, is an attractive focus for image makers charged with community building and place differentiation. Not only is it good to eat; food can be a palatable and marketable symbol for a town or region. Pauline Adema is staff folklorist for the Dutchess County Arts Council in Poughkeepsie, New York. She teaches at the Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, New York) and is a culinary anthropologist-consultant.

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À propos de l'auteur

Pauline Adema is staff folklorist for the Dutchess County Arts Council in Poughkeepsie, New York. She teaches at the Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, New York) and is a culinary anthropologist-consultant.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1604731214
• ISBN 13: 9781604731217
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
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• Personne responsable: non disponible