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Community Food Festivals and Events in the South West of England, UK

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Managing and Developing Communities, Festivals and Events

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This chapter addresses themes of community events as tourist attractions or sources of regeneration, hospitality, food and drink. It contends that food themed community festivals and events are a positive means of promoting more than a culinary or gastronomic interest in a region and locality, and can be effective in reviving awareness of commensality in the milieu of festivals, celebrations, traditional foods and methods of production. This chapter has a geographical focus and case study, from the South West of England, an area with a long tradition of tourism and hospitality provision for the visiting public. Yin (2014) supports the use of case studies as a valid form of research, and in the setting of community festivals it allows the researcher to focus on a specific topic and region. Qualitative interviews with organisers of festivals and events in the region, along with archival research, have been utilised here to demonstrate the evolution of the contemporary community festival. Contrasting examples of food festivals in Bristol and Devon, in the United Kingdom, are presented as vehicles for renewal, and their role in the historiography of food culture and regional tourism.

Next to breathing, eating is perhaps the most essential of all human activities, and one with which much of social life is entwined.

(Mintz & Dubois, 2002, p. 102)

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  1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

    Allan Jepson

  2. University of Pannonia, Hungary

    Alan Clarke

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Cleave, P. (2016). Community Food Festivals and Events in the South West of England, UK. In: Jepson, A., Clarke, A. (eds) Managing and Developing Communities, Festivals and Events. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137508553_13

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