6. Eat Your Way through Culture: Gastronomic Tourism as Performance and Bodily Experience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors ix
5. 1.Starting Slow: Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences 1
6. Part 1. Positioning Slow Tourism
7. 2. Speeding Up and Slowing Down: Pilgrimage and Slow Travel Through Time 11
8. 3. On the Periphery of Pleasure: Hedonics, Eudaimonics and Slow Travel 25
9. 4. Slow’n Down the Town to Let Nature Grow: Ecotourism, Social Justice and Sustainability 36
10. Part 2. Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism
11. 5. The Contradictions and Paradoxes of Slow Food: Environmental Change, Sustainability and the Conservation of Taste 53
12. 6. Eat Your Way through Culture: Gastronomic Tourism as Performance and Bodily Experience 69
13. 7. ‘Make Haste Slowly’: Environmental Sustainability and Willing Workers on Organic Farms 84
14. Part 3. Slow Mobilities
15. 8. Gendered Cultures of Slow Travel: Women’s Cycle Touring as an Alternative Hedonism 99
16. 9. Wandering Australia: Independent Travellers and Slow Journeys Through Time and Space 113
17. 10. Alternative Mobility Cultures and the Resurgence of Hitch-hiking 128
18. 11. ‘If You’re Making Waves Then You Have to Slow Down’: Slow Tourism and Canals 143
19. Part 4. Slow Tourism Places
20. 12. Travellin’ Around On Yukon Time in Canada’s North 157
21. 13. ‘Fast Japan, Slow Japan’: Shifting to Slow Tourism as a Rural Regeneration Tool in Japan 170
22. 14. Tribe Tourism: A Case Study of the Tribewanted Project on Vorovoro, Fiji 185
23. 15. Slow Tourism Initiatives: An Exploratory Study of Dutch Lifestyles Entrepreneurs in France 201
24. 16. Slow Travel and Indian Culture: Philosophical and Practical Aspects 214
25. 17. Reflecting Upon Slow Travel and Tourism Experiences 227