Cristina Grasseni 
The Heritage Arena [PDF ebook] 
Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

List of Tables, Figures and Maps
Acknowledgements

Introduction

• Why cheese?


• Calibrating cheese


• Post transhumant timescapes

PART I: THE WAR OF THE CHEESES

Chapter 1. Patrimonio and Tipicità

• The Entrepreneur as Sovereign


• The Language of Tipicità

Chapter 2. Cultures of Resistance

• The ‘Mother of all Battles’: Slow Food Bitto versus PDO Bitto


• The Niche PDO: Formai de Mut


• The Unachieved PDO: Branzi

Conclusion of Part I

PART II: WE, THE PEOPLE OF VAL TELEGGIO

Chapter 3. A geography of Opposites

• Straddling uplands and lowlands


• How Taleggio cheese failed the Taleggio valley

Chapter 4. The Best Cheese in Italy

• PDO Italian Style?


• The public trial of Strachitunt

Conclusion of Part II

PART III: DULCAMARA’S SENSES

Chapter 5. Marketing the Sensorium

• Slow Food and the Geometry of Val Taleggio


• Taliban and Improvers

Chapter 6.  Reinventing Stracchino

• Deciphering a Meal


• Performing Cheese

Conclusion of Part III
Conclusion

References

Cristina Grasseni is a Professor of Anthropology at Leiden University (the Netherlands).