Memory Tourism and Traditional Food. Tastes and Knowledge of Preparing Meals in Istrian Agrotourism

U članku se prikazuje na koji su način vlasnici agroturizama u Istri prilikom osmišljavanja turističke ponude svojih objekata iskoristili proces komodificiranja osjećaja nostalgije. Pomoću ambijenta i prehrane koji evociraju prošlost, često i nedoživljenu, obraćaju se turistima koji se žele "vratiti" u zamišljeno djetinjstvo. Fokus rada usmjeren je na fenomen okusa koji u odnosu s fenomenom pamćenja postaje zanimljiv turistički proizvod te se pokazuje na koji način fenomen okusa vlasnici agroturizama u Istri pokušavaju "prenijeti" turistima.This article demonstrates in what way agrotourism owners in Istria have made use of the process of commodifying the feeling of nostalgia when designing what their sites will offer tourists. Through making use of ambience and food which evokes the past, often the unexperienced past, they address tourists who wish to "return" to an imagined childhood. The focus of this article is on the phenomenon of taste, which in relation to the phenomenon of memory becomes an interesting tourist product and demonstrates the way in which the owners of agrotourist businesses in Istria attempt to "convey" the phenomenon of taste to tourists