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Article: Vernacular Health Moralities and Culinary Tourism in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Article from:
- Journal of American Folklore
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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This article addresses class-based moral judgments as a crucial aspect of both informal and consciously constructed kinds of culinary tourism in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Interview and survey data, as well as Internet travelogues, further reveal the development and negot
iation of vernacular health moralities that influence the ways in which certain foods are culturally constructed to convey status.
Introduction
This article is based on research concerning culinary tourism in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. With some notable exceptions (e.g., Bourdieu 1984; Goody 1982; Lewis 1997; Marriott 1968; Montaño 1992, 1997; Warde and Martens 2000; Weismantel 1988), the ...