Giuseppe Balirano is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation in the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Italy.Siria Guzzo is Tenured Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Salerno, Italy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Giuseppe Balirano and Siria Guzzo.- Chapter 2. Italian Food Perception as a Marker of the Spread of Italian Identity in Germany; Amelia Bandini and Marcella Corduas.- Chapter 3. Food and Translation in ‘Montalbano’; Margherita Dore.- Chapter 4. Callaloo or Pelau? Food, Identity and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago; Eleonora Esposito.- Chapter 5. Diasporic Identities in Social Practices: Language & Food in the Loughborough Italian Community; Siria Guzzo and Anna Gallo.- Chapter 6. Stuff the Turkey! An investigation of food, language and performative identity construction in ‘Eat Pray Love’; Bronwen Hughes.- Chapter 7. Pancakes stuffed with sweet bean paste: Food-related lexical borrowings as indicators of the intensity of language contact in the Pacific; Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain.- Chapter 8. Pizza chiena between two worlds; Suzanne Romaine.

Giuseppe Balirano is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation in the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Italy.Siria Guzzo is Tenured Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Salerno, Italy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Giuseppe Balirano and Siria Guzzo.- Chapter 2. Italian Food Perception as a Marker of the Spread of Italian Identity in Germany; Amelia Bandini and Marcella Corduas.- Chapter 3. Food and Translation in ‘Montalbano’; Margherita Dore.- Chapter 4. Callaloo or Pelau? Food, Identity and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago; Eleonora Esposito.- Chapter 5. Diasporic Identities in Social Practices: Language & Food in the Loughborough Italian Community; Siria Guzzo and Anna Gallo.- Chapter 6. Stuff the Turkey! An investigation of food, language and performative identity construction in ‘Eat Pray Love’; Bronwen Hughes.- Chapter 7. Pancakes stuffed with sweet bean paste: Food-related lexical borrowings as indicators of the intensity of language contact in the Pacific; Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain.- Chapter 8. Pizza chiena between two worlds; Suzanne Romaine.

Giuseppe Balirano is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation in the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Italy.Siria Guzzo is Tenured Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Salerno, Italy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Giuseppe Balirano and Siria Guzzo.- Chapter 2. Italian Food Perception as a Marker of the Spread of Italian Identity in Germany; Amelia Bandini and Marcella Corduas.- Chapter 3. Food and Translation in ‘Montalbano’; Margherita Dore.- Chapter 4. Callaloo or Pelau? Food, Identity and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago; Eleonora Esposito.- Chapter 5. Diasporic Identities in Social Practices: Language & Food in the Loughborough Italian Community; Siria Guzzo and Anna Gallo.- Chapter 6. Stuff the Turkey! An investigation of food, language and performative identity construction in ‘Eat Pray Love’; Bronwen Hughes.- Chapter 7. Pancakes stuffed with sweet bean paste: Food-related lexical borrowings as indicators of the intensity of language contact in the Pacific; Kazuko Matsumoto and David Britain.- Chapter 8. Pizza chiena between two worlds; Suzanne Romaine.