On the Appetite Trail
On the Appetite Trail

Summary/Abstract: The article recounts actions oriented at experiencing and reliving culinarytraditions, undertaken by the Local Action Group of the “Mroga” Society forthe Local Community Development.The Society operates in five communes: Koluszki, Brzeziny, Dmosin, Jeżów andRogów, located in the north-eastern part of the current Łódź voivodeship, east ofthe city of Łódź. In the past, this area, which bordered regions whose characteristicfeatures indicated their distinct regional identities (the Łęczyca Land and the ŁowiczPrincipality from the north, the Rawa Land from the east, the Opoczno and PiotrkówLands from the south, and Łódź from the west), was devoid of definite featurestypical to folk culture. Currently it is still an area which, due to the absence of aconsistent and enduring cultural foundation to refer to, cannot be described in thecategories of an ethnographic or geographic region. By following the tourist traillaid by the Society, known as the “Appetite Trail”, I reconstruct the vision of whatthe community resident in the five communes covered by the activity of the “Mroga”Local Action Group defines as the region’s culinary tradition, and I deconstruct theGroup’s actions that reduce the tradition to the level of a tourist attraction.

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