In Search of Abundance with Luisa Del Giudice

The Italian Radio Hour

This week on The Italian Radio Hour - In Search of Abundance with Luisa Del Giudice.
Luisa Del Giudice, Ph.D. was born in Terracina (Latina), emigrated to Toronto in 1956, and has lived in Los Angeles since 1981. She is internationally known for her work on Italian and Italian diaspora ethnology, folklore, and oral history. In 2008, she was named an honorary Fellow of the American Folklore Society and Cavaliere by the Italian Republic.
Her latest publication "In Search of Abundance: Mountains of Cheese, Rivers of Wine, and Other Gastronomic Utopias," reviews four decades of the author’s research, writing, and programming within this Italian and diaspora food nexus, including her reflections on the cycle of hunger, the search for abundance, the practice and achievement of abundance. Currently inhabiting a Land of Enough, she also ponders how the COVID-19 pandemic helped shift this multigenerational trauma discourse of scarcity and abundance, contributed to her involvement in food justice initiatives, and broke the mantra’s spell.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction: My Search for Abundance
1. Mountains of Cheese and Rivers of Wine: "Paesi di Cuccagna" and other Gastronomic Utopias
2. Wine Makes Good Blood: Wine Culture among Toronto Italians
3. Rituals of Charity and Abundance: Sicilian St. Joseph's Tables and Feeding the Poor in Los Angeles
4. Ischian Cultural Sites on the San Pedro, California, Map
5. Pasta
6. Feeding the Poor—Welcoming the Stranger: The Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative and St. Joseph’s Communal Tables in Watts
7. Treasure from Trees: Gold and Liquid Gold in the Oral and Archaeological Traditions around Horace's Sabine Villa in Licenza, Italy
Video interview: https://youtu.be/mcT5lWOwAsA

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