Communicating Food Across Cultures: A Taste of Italy at OliOliva 2026
How do we communicate Italian food and wine heritage to an international audience? And how can we make the diversity of Italian cuisine meaningful across cultural boundaries? Food is never just food. It tells stories of landscapes, communities, memories, exchanges and ways of life. Yet, how much of this cultural heritage actually reaches international visitors when we talk about Italian cuisine? These are some of the questions at the heart of my work in food and wine tourism, ethnogastronomy and intercultural communication. On Saturday, 7 November, I’ll have the opportunity to explore them in Imperia, during the Italian Cuisine as UNESCO Heritage: Tradition and Culture roundtable, organised by ISNART (the Italian National Institute for Tourism Research) as part of the Mirabilia project, in collaboration with the Ligurian Riviera Chamber of Commerce on the occasion of the Olioliva festival. My contribution will focus on a topic central to my professional work: “Comm...
