Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments This book began back in 2001, and many people have helped and encouraged me along the way. The people who shop, work and live at Porta Palazzo made my experience there possible; they let me into their world, shared their bread and stories with me. Thank you Rosella, Luigi, Andrea, Piero, Antonella, Andrea, Pier, Said, Luca, Davide, Naima, Paolo, Bruna, Alberto, Mohamed, Marco, Irene and Walter. Alberto without you, I would never have come to live in Italy and know your wonderful city. I would like to thank Carole Counihan for many years of mentorship, advice and encouragement . Her work in the anthropology of food has been an inspiration to me throughout my career. Many thanks are due to Paolo Viazzo at the University of Turin for his patience and support during my fieldwork, and to Francesco Remotti and others in the in the Anthropology Department. You offered constant intellectual stimulation and you pushed me to think of the world in new ways. Through the numerous rewrites of this manuscript, my husband Doug Cook encouraged and reassured me. Thank you to the students in my Anthropology of Food graduate class at Boston University, Katie Dolph, Michael Kostyo, Michelle Hastings, Lara Zelman, and Jennifer Logan, for their feedback on my manuscript. Thank you to Alex Galimberti for his help with indexing. I appreciated the opportunity to share a chapter in progress with Heather Paxson and her graduate class at MIT. Thank you to the reviewers who took the time to give me the constructive feedback that helped me shape this project into a book. I was fortunate to have insightful and encouraging comments and input from Kirin Narayan and Alma Gottlieb, the Contemporary Ethnography Series editors. The writing of this book was made possible thanks to fellowship support from the International School of Advanced Studies at the University of Turin and from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. ...