Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. Consuming, or possibly just tasting, exotic foods can be the ultimate goal of a tourist?s experience, but food can also serve as a way for tourists to explore other cultures. The book?s contributors, widely recognized by food experts, examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world.
Just as movies, books, postcards, and memories take us to other places, food also takes us to other realms of experience, allowing us to enjoy diverse cultures from the comfort of home. Restaurants, cookbooks, televised cooking shows, food magazines, recipe sections in newspapers, and even reality television shows, such as "Survivor" and "Fear Factor," allow us to tour the foodways of other cultures. Culinary Tourism provides a taste of such adventures.