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According to Pauline Adema, you smell Gilroy, California, before you see it. In Garlic Capital of the World, the folklorist and culinary anthropologist examines the role of food and festivals in creating a place brand or marketable identity. The author scrutinizes how Gilroy, California, successfully transformed a negative association with the pungent bulb into a highly successful tourism and marketing campaign.
This book explores how local initiatives led to an iconization of the humble product in Gilroy. The city, a well-established agricultural center and bedroom community south of San Francisco, rapidly built a place-brand identity based on its now-famous moniker, "Garlic Capital of the World." To understand Gilroy's success in transforming a local crop into a tourist draw, Adema contrasts the development of this now-thriving festival with events surrounding the launch and demise of the PigFest in Coppell, Texas. Indeed, the Garlic Festival is so successful that the event is all that many people know about Gilroy.
Adema explores the creation and subsequent selling of foodscapes or food-themed place identities. This seemingly ubiquitous practice is readily visible across the country at festivals celebrating edibles like tomatoes, peaches, spinach, and even cauliflower. Food, Adema contends, is an attractive focus for image makers charged with community building and place differentiation. Not only is it good to eat; food can be a palatable and marketable symbol for a town or region.
| Preface | p. vii |
| Making a Foodscape: Gilroy and the Iconization of Garlic | p. 3 |
| The Festivalization of Garlic: Creating and Celebrating Community in Gilroy | p. 24 |
| From Foreign to Fad: Garlic's Twentieth-Century Transition | p. 44 |
| Garlic Galore: Festival Inversion, Subversion, and the Enactment of Labor Relations | p. 60 |
| Place Branding and Selling Place: Creating and Marketing Identity Capital | p. 82 |
| "This little piggy went to PigFest...": The Paradox of PigFest | p. 105 |
| Festive Foodscapes: Food Symbolization and Place Making | p. 141 |
| Appendix A | p. 151 |
| Appendix B | p. 153 |
| Notes | p. 155 |
| Bibliography | p. 173 |
| Index | p. 191 |
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ISBN: 9781604731217
ISBN-10: 1604731214
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 196
Published: 6th January 2009
Publisher: UNIV PR OF MISSISSIPPI
Dimensions (cm): 22.098 x 14.986
x 1.524
Weight (kg): 0.318
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