The Heritage Arena: Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

by Cristina Grasseni

In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga of Strachitunt, a cheese that has been designated an EU Protected Designation of Origin after years of negotiation and competition involving cheese-makers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785332945
• ISBN13: 9781785332944
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"