On ice: life and lunch at Mercato di Rialto

  • Visitors consume Venice’s Mercato di Rialto most often with their eyes and cameras. Venetians, in contrast, consume it with their mouths. During the week they voice their orders gently, but on Saturday mornings shopping lists become full-volume announcements that compete against the market noise. By analysing the history and role of the Pescheria at Rialto Market and its culinary and cultural representations, this article considers the entanglement between seafood and people, ice and freshness, and life and lunch.

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Author:L. Sasha GoraORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1089769
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/108976
ISSN:2785-2709OPAC
Parent Title (English):Lagoonscapes: The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities
Publisher:Edizioni Ca Foscari
Type:Article
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2021/12/20
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2023/11/10
Volume:1
Issue:1
First Page:79
Last Page:100
DOI:https://doi.org/10.30687/lgsp//2021/01/007
Institutes:Philologisch-Historische Fakultät
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte / DFG-Heisenberg Professur für Globale Umweltgeschichte und Environmental Humanities
Dewey Decimal Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie
Licence (German):CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)