Local Agricultural Products in Tourism: A. J. Strutt’s Account of Sicilian Rickly Pears
Journal Title: GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites - Year 2014, Vol 13, Issue 1
Abstract
In the marketing of tourist locations several strands can be exploited to stress the potentialities of a place: landscape, buildings, quality foods. European regulations connect local food to the place and to history in terms of growing or manufacturing praxis and of local traditions rooted in ways of preparing and of consuming it. In tourism, food products add to the travel experience since they can be employed to define the cultural identity of a location. This paper, while reckoning the role of quality local food products in tourism, wants to call attention to the added value British grand tourists’ reports can play in defining the historical roots of quality food items. To this aim, the brief descriptions of Sicilian prickly pears from Arthur John Strutt, a British painter and a traveller, are reported, and discussed for the first time, as a means to better characterize the PDO cactus fruits grown in Sicily.
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CIANFLONE Eugenio, CARDILE Giovanna
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