Papers by Karima Moyer-Nocchi
As the name The Eternal City implies, Rome is a useful exemplar for analyzing cultural tendencies... more As the name The Eternal City implies, Rome is a useful exemplar for analyzing cultural tendencies from the perspective of the longue durée. Its extensive, multifaceted history of food service, gastronomy, and tourism may be unique, but the issues that Roman chefs are currently facing in those sectors are not dissimilar to questions arising in other cities with a high influx of tourists and well-established gastronomic traditions.
Italian Foodways Worldwide, 2020
This chapter examines the Mediterranean Diet through the framework of a Barthesian modern mytholo... more This chapter examines the Mediterranean Diet through the framework of a Barthesian modern mythology, deconstructing the history and process it underwent in becoming a groupthink panacea, selling anything from cosmetics to dog food.
The Eternal Table - A Cultural History of Food in Rome, 2019
The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome is the first concise history of the food, g... more The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome is the first concise history of the food, gastronomy, and cuisine of Rome spanning from pre-Roman to modern times. It is a social history of the Eternal City seen through the lens of eating and feeding, as it advanced over the centuries in a city that fascinates like no other. The history of food in Rome unfolds as an engaging and enlightening narrative, recounting the human partnership with what was raised, picked, fished, caught, slaughtered, cooked, and served, as it was experienced and perceived along the continuum between excess and dearth by Romans and the many who passed through.
An examination of the development Italian middle class cookbook of the 19th century and its relat... more An examination of the development Italian middle class cookbook of the 19th century and its relationship to the sociopolitical trajectory from the birth of the nation to totalitarian nationalization.
Oral history as a mean of researching gastronomy - an Italian case study. Presented at the Oxford... more Oral history as a mean of researching gastronomy - an Italian case study. Presented at the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery in July of 2015.
Oral history projects are on the rise, particularly given the upcoming centennial dates of WWI-II. While the premise of each oral history project is highly individual, much can be gleaned by examining a project brought to fruition. This paper examines the ethnographic variables considered for the realization of the oral history based book "Chewing the Fat - An Oral History of Italian Foodways from Fascism to Dolce Vita".
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Papers by Karima Moyer-Nocchi
Oral history projects are on the rise, particularly given the upcoming centennial dates of WWI-II. While the premise of each oral history project is highly individual, much can be gleaned by examining a project brought to fruition. This paper examines the ethnographic variables considered for the realization of the oral history based book "Chewing the Fat - An Oral History of Italian Foodways from Fascism to Dolce Vita".
Book Reviews by Karima Moyer-Nocchi
Oral history projects are on the rise, particularly given the upcoming centennial dates of WWI-II. While the premise of each oral history project is highly individual, much can be gleaned by examining a project brought to fruition. This paper examines the ethnographic variables considered for the realization of the oral history based book "Chewing the Fat - An Oral History of Italian Foodways from Fascism to Dolce Vita".