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Food represents an unalienable component of everyday life, encompassing different spheres and moments. What is more, in contemporary societies, migration, travel, and communication incessantly expose local food identities to global food alterities, activating interesting processes of transformation that continuously reshape and redefine such identities and alterities. Ethnic restaurants fill up the streets we walk, while in many city markets and supermarkets local products are increasingly complemented with spices, vegetables, and other foods required for the preparation of exotic dishes. Mass and new media constantly provide exposure to previously unknown foods, while “fusion cuisines” have become increasingly popular all over the world. But what happens to food and food-related habits, practices, and meanings when they are carried from one foodsphere to another? What are the main elements involved in such dynamics? And which theoretical and methodological approaches can help in understanding such processes? These are the main issues addressed by this book, which explores both the functioning logics and the tangible effects of one of the most important characteristics of present-day societies: eating the Other.

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Simona Stano is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turin, Italy, and Senior Researcher at the International Semiotics Institute. She holds a PhD in Sciences of Language and Communication from the University of Turin and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Lugano, Switzerland. During her doctoral studies, she worked as Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Toronto, Canada, where she also obtained a Research Fellowship from the Department of Religious Studies. She received her BA in Communication Studies and her MA in Multimedia and Mass Communications from the University of Turin, and a postgraduate degree in Intercultural Studies and Peace Culture from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Dr Stano's research mainly deals with the semiotics of culture, food semiotics, and visual, urban and communication studies. She has contributed to a number of books and renowned journals, and has presented papers at various national and international conferences. In 2014, Dr Stano was awarded the title of

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Simona Stano is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turin, Italy, and Senior Researcher at the International Semiotics Institute. She holds a PhD in Sciences of Language and Communication from the University of Turin and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Lugano, Switzerland. During her doctoral studies, she worked as Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Toronto, Canada, where she also obtained a Research Fellowship from the Department of Religious Studies. Dr Stano’s research mainly deals with the semiotics of culture, food semiotics, and visual, urban and communication studies. She has contributed to a number of books and renowned journals, and has presented papers at various national and international conferences. In 2014, Dr Stano was awarded the title of “Expert in Philosophy and Theory of Languages” from the University of Turin, and in recent years she has worked as Lecturer and Examiner at various universities in Italy and abroad.

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