Foreword: Why Italy?; Donna Gabaccia
1. Introduction: Food, Foodways and Italianicity; Roberta Sassatelli
2. The Invention of Authentic Italian Food: Narratives, Rhetoric, and Media; Fabio Parasecoli
3. Italians Diasporic Identities and Food; Simone Cinotto
4. Locating Italianicity through Food and Tourism: Playing with Geographical Scales; Chiara Rabbiosi
5. Food Consumption and Food Activism in Italy; Carole Counihan
6. Good Food and Nice People: Hospitality and the Construction of Food Quality among the Italian Middle Classes; Roberta Sassatelli and Federica Davolio
7. Cooks, Italianicity and the Culinary Field in Italy; Lorenzo Domaneschi
8. Not a Matter of Fame: Constructing the Local as Brand Value; Roberta Sassatelli and Elisa A. G. Arfini
9. Cookbooks and the Representation of Italian Ways of Food; Agnese Portincasa
10. The Carbonara-gate: Food Porn and Gastro-nationalism; Sebastiano Benasso and Luisa Stagi
Afterword; Massimo Montanari.