Tourism and Gastronomy

The conceptualization of gastronomy has undergone a major change over the last three decades in the field of the social sciences. Some authors suggested that gastronomy must be considered as the study of the relationship between culture and food in contemporary world (Bessière, 1998; Scarpato, 2002; Poulain, 2011). These approaches set the basis to explore from a wider perspective on how social actors and communities implied in gastronomy articulate their social life around this activity. Thu..