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Food is a powerful cultural signifier 3
3 READ PART 2 3. Narratives of ethnic foods and national cuisines Validating that the cultural role of Food A signifier of country, commentators have argued that now nations areas National flag. Concurrently, studies carried out by Arjun Appadurai, Carol Helstosky, and Sally Howell have also illustrated how cuisines, particularly National cuisines, are discursively produced by national elites as tools of nation-building In turn. As I have addressed previously, ethnic foods and ethnicity just come To being when put against the grain of the non-ethnic other. Thus, we need to Explore how Australian and Italian national cuisines have been imagined and how They articulate with the kitchen and foods of the ethnic others with whom they share the same national territory. Italian cuisine and foodways are represented as strong signifiers of national culture and national identities. According to the Italian gatekeepers, The kitchen is integral to the narrative of Italian-ness. Yet, Italy ...
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