Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments Editors' Introduction: Presenting Food, Representing Italy -- Peter Naccarato (Marymount Manhattan College, USA), Zachary Nowak, and Elgin Eckert (The Umbra Institute, Italy) Part I: (Re)presenting Iconic Italy 1. The Belated Revenge of Today's Farmers -- Massimo Montanari (University of Bologna, Italy) 2. Authenticity all'italiana: Food Discourses, Diasporas, and the Limits of Cuisine in Contemporary Italy -- Aliza Wong (Texas Tech University, USA) 3. Slow Food Movement and Facebook: The Paradox of Advocating Slow Living through Fast Technology -- Ginevra Adamoli (Independent Scholar, Italy) -- Part II: Representing Italy in Literature and Film 4. Casalinghitudine: Recipes for Political History -- Ernesto Livorni (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 5. Inspector Montalbano a tavola: Food in Andrea Camilleri's Police Fiction -- Elgin Eckert (The Umbra Institute, Italy) 6. There's a Mobster in the Kitchen: Cooking, Eating, and Complications of Gender in Mafia Movies and Television -- Peter Naccarato (Marymount Manhattan College, USA) 7. In cibo veritas: Food Preparation and Consumption in Ozpetek's "Queer" Films Elgin Eckert and Zachary Nowak (The Umbra Institute, Italy) -- Part III: Marketing, Packaging, and Advertising Italy -- 9. Semiotics of Sauce: National Identity and Naming of Pasta Sauces Maryann Tebben (Bard College, USA) -- 10. Producing Consumers: How 1950's Food Advertisements in La cucina italiana Evoke and Create Gendered Bodies Diana Garvin (Cornell University, USA) -- 11. A Kitchen with a View: Perspectives on Italian Gender Roles in Barilla Food Commercials 1950-1970 Antonella Valoroso (The Umbra Institute, Italy) -- Part IV: Global Representations of Italy -- 12. Italian Food in the United States Ken Albala (University of the Pacific, USA) -- 13. Leggo's not-so-Autentico: Toward an Alternative Account of 20th Century Italo-Australian Foodways Rachel Ankeny & Tania Cammarano, University of Adelaide, Australia -- 14. Italian Food in Israel: Stuffing Up in an Imagined Mediterranean Nir Avieli (Ben Gurion University, Israel) -- 15. Afterword: Italy Represented Peter Naccarato (Marymount Manhattan College, USA), Zachary Nowak, and Elgin Eckert (The Umbra Institute, Italy) -- Bibliography -- Index.