Urban Foodways and Communication

Casey Man Kong Lum, PhD, is Professor of Communication, William Paterson University. A member on the Board of Directors of the Urban Communication Foundation, Casey is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters in urban food cultures, media and culture, intercultural communication and diasporic studies. His book In Search of a Voice explores the role of karaoke singing in the social construction of identity. His authored/edited volume on The Media Ecology Tradition was the winner of the 2006 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics by the Media Ecology Association. He teaches graduate and undergraduate-level courses in media studies, food studies, and intercultural communication.Marc de Ferrière le Vayer, PhD, is Professor of Modern History at Université François Rabelais de Tours, France. A scholar in food heritage studies well-known around the world and an author of numerous publications, Marc is the Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair in the Safeguarding and Promotion of Intangible Cultural Food Heritage at the University of Tours since 2011.

• 1: At the Intersection of Urban Foodways, Communication, and Intangible Cultural Heritage: An IntroductionCasey Man Kong Lum and Marc de Ferrière le Vayer2: Bacalhau–A Love Story: An Ethnographic Study of Portuguese Foodways paula arvela3: Kimchi Nation: Constructing Kimjang as an Intangible Korean Heritage Chi-Hoon Kim4: The Lebanese Bigarade: A Tree at the Heart of Urban Foodways Aïda Kanafani-Zahar5: Shark Town: Kesennuma’s Taste for Shark and the Challenge of a Tsunami Jun Akamine6: The Story in My Matzah Ball Soup: Food as Memory, Identity, and Culture in Contemporary Jewish Barcelona Catherine Simone Gallin7: Gastronomic Festivals and Celebrations on the Montenegrin Coast: Promoting Multicultural Heritagethrough Traditional Foodways Ivona Jovanovic´, Andiela Vitic-Cetkovic, and Charles A. Baker-Clark8: FIFA vs. As Baianas de Acarajé and the Politics of the Cultural Imaginary Scott Alves Barton9: Edible Heritage: Tradition, Health, and Ephemeral Consumption Spaces in Mexican Street Food José Antonio Vázquez-Medina, Miriam Bertrán, and F. Xavier Medina10: Botteghe Storiche: A Study of the Disappearance of Historic Food Shops and Its Role in the Transformation of Rome’s Urban Social Life Sonia Massari, Elena T. Carbone, and Salem Paulos11: Urban Melting Pot: Food Heritage in Yakutia Isabelle Bianquis and Isabella Borissova12: Epilogue: Urban Foodways as Communication and as Intangible Cultural Heritage Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

Lum, de Ferrière le Vayer, and their collaborating authors provide an exciting new perspective on foodways as dynamic forms of communication within and among contested urban spaces. Sophisticated yet accessible, diverse yet coherent, fresh but well grounded, this volume dives deep into the material, symbolic, and political complexities of food as cultural heritage.