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Forme del mangiar per strada: il caso della rosticceria palermitana
2019
Analizziamo qui un tipo di cibo da strada noto a Palermo come rosticceria. Si tratta di un insieme coerente e composito di pietanze che fanno parte di una gastronomia locale, popolare ed economica, e con una valorizzazione fortemente pratica: puro “cibo rifornimento”. Eppure, attraverso un’analisi interna della rosticceria, considerando gli elementi che la compongono e le relazioni tra di essi, nonché attraverso un confronto con altri universi gastronomici, vedremo come sia possibile individuare le forme semiotiche profonde che reggono il funzionamento socio-culturale di questo cibo molto diffuso, e al tempo stesso un po’ snobbato, della gastronomia palermitana. È solo nel confronto che si …
Cassate, cannoli e altri miti
2020
On the one hand, there are the traditional Sicilian sweets, with their composition, shape and taste; on the other hand, there are the times and the spaces in which they are consumed, but also those in which they are prepared. For each of these aspects, which are not of a linguistic nature, there are multiple discourses that take them as their object, articulating their meaning. The objective of this essay is to put all these heterogeneous sources into dialogue in an attempt to identify the structures they have in common. This research does not aim to establish the origin of the Sicilians' interest in sweets, but rather the way in which in this island, crossroads of many peoples, a system ha…
Propaganda alimentare
2020
How can we investigate the symbolic meaning of food without reading the thoughts of those who eat? The answer can be found in the slogans that advertising proposes. Advertising, in fact, has precisely the role of constructing the "good to think" of which anthropology speaks, and not because of some kind of occult power that is occasionally attributed to it, but because of the social function it performs. What it does is to make a given product relevant within a wider system composed of many others, but also of values, problems, traditions, tastes, disgusts, principles and practices. Advertising has, in a certain sense, made its own the function of the ancient storytellers who, by declaiming…
Il senso del dolce
2019
On the basis of which relations does the semiosphere of Sicilian sweets take shape, meant as a coherent structure inside and effective outside it? In what way does each sweet, as a component of this system, take on its virtuality? To what extent does it do so? How cohesive is the system that is created? These are all questions that have repercussions on the cultural value that this particular set of gastronomic products that are sweets produces, ending up by generating within the vast hive of culture a specific field that we have called gastrosphere. Therefore, dealing with the gastrosphere of Sicilian sweets means looking for how these particular elements of the culinary identity of this c…
Gastronomie : entre transparence et opacité Un jeu d'ombre et de lumière
2015
This article aims at highlighting the signs of transparency and opacity in gastronomic communication. The esthesic, aesthetic and ethical dimension will be considered through discursive and visual elements put at stake in the presentation of dishes so that their flavours as well as the sensations and emotions they produce will fully come out. It will illustrate the interactions between the creative chef and the guest who will feel sensations, each of them asserting the construction of their identity. Gastronomic semiotics will be considered as socio-semiotics, which takes into account aesthetic values of today's society and also accounts for the complexity of senses.
Discorso turistico-enologico sull’aura in ‘Un’ottima annata’ di Ridley Scott
2023
This essay follows fits into an ongoing project dedicated to highlighting the rhetorical and ideological representations of food and wine in cinema It carries out a semiotic analysis of the film A good year (by Ridley Scott, with the aim of identifying the role that wine plays in it and in the touristic imaginary about it. The essay pursues this goal by facing the issue of authenticity in tour ism as posed by Culler and by reconstructing the implicit aesthetic and touristic theory on which the film may be positioned. Then, it proceeds by getting into a reconstruction of the ideologic role played by the settings and the spaces represented in it. A spatial dialectic among city and country get…