Culinary Tourism as Public Folklore: Heritage in Negotiating Competitiveness and Sustainability

Lucy M. Long has a PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. She recently retired from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, where she taught classes in folklore, popular culture, American culture studies, international studies, tourism, and food studies. She runs the independent, nonprofit Center for Food and Culture (www.foodandculture.org), which she founded in 2011. She has published extensively on folklore perspectives on food, including as editor of the compiled volumes, Culinary Tourism (2004) and The Food and Folklore Reader (2015).