From the history of Porta Palazzo, Western Europe's largest open-air market, to its current growing pains, this book turns an ethnographic eye on a meeting place for trade, cultural identity, and cuisine.

Rachel E. Black is Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of in the Gastronomy Program at Boston University. She is the editor of Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopaedia. Carlo Petrini is the founder of the Slow Food Movement and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. His books include Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair.