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Street Food and Street Vendors, a Culinary Heritage?

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This paper examines the theoretical discourse surrounding street food and tells how street food is multidimensional and spatially contingent, but also tackles food safety and aspects related to street vendors’ issues. The street food sector offers to the guests various dishes and drinks prepared at the place of sale or only marketed by itinerant merchants or by vendors with stationary carts, either on the streets or in other public places that may be of interest for tourists. Fast food is generally associated with globalization, so present in high income per capita countries. This paper aims to present a radiography of street food marketing, an image that defines a particular region or country.

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  1. Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Calea Dumbravii 17, Sibiu, Romania

    Virgil Nicula & Simona Spânu

  2. Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    Donatella Privitera

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Nicula, V., Privitera, D., Spânu, S. (2018). Street Food and Street Vendors, a Culinary Heritage?. In: Orăștean, R., Ogrean, C., Mărginean, S. (eds) Innovative Business Development—A Global Perspective. IECS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01878-8_20

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