British Food Journal: Volume 116 Issue 11

Sensing nostalgia through traditional food: an insight from Croatia

Sanda Renko, Kristina Bucar

Due to the growing trend of consuming healthy food, which reproduces the ideal of the food the authors tried in their childhood, an increasing number of researchers have brought…

Developing an authenticity model of traditional food specialties : Does the self-concept of consumers matter?

Katia Laura Sidali, Sarah Hemmerling

The purpose of this paper is to develop an authenticity model for food specialties considering both the subjective and the object-based dimensions of authenticity. Moreover, the…

Customer loyalty towards traditional products – Polish market experience

Edyta Dorota Rudawska

The purpose of this paper is to analyse key determinants of Polish consumers’ loyalty, identified through the analysis of relationship marketing literature, with reference to…

What motivates consumers to buy traditional food products? Evidence from Croatia and Austria using word association and laddering interviews

Marija Cerjak, Rainer Haas, Florian Brunner, Marina Tomić

The purpose of this paper is to explore the differences between consumer motives regarding purchase of traditional food in two European countries (Croatia and Austria) with a…

Lifestyle pattern underlying organic and traditional food consumption

Aleksandra Nikolić, Mirza Uzunović, Nermina Spaho

The purpose of this paper is to set out to define lifestyle pattern framing behavior shared by traditional food products (TFP) and organic foods (OF) consumers to identify, if…

Perspectives on global fermented foods

Surabhi Soni, Gargi Dey

The purpose of this paper is to outline the present status of various fermented foods and beverages across the globe and reviews on the microbiology and therapeutic effects of…

Strengthening regional identities and culture through wine industry cross border collaboration

Francesco Contò, Demetris Vrontis, Mariantonietta Fiore, Alkis Thrassou

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potentialities of cross border projects to develop and promote wine culture, and consequently tourism and hospitality; paying…

Consumers’ evolving definition and expectations for local foods

Mark Lang, John Stanton, Yingdao Qu

Although locally sourced and produced foods are a growing trend in food marketing, they are not yet clearly understood nor consistently defined. There is no lack of definitions…

Tourist perceived image of local cuisine: the case of Bosnian food culture

Almir Peštek, Merima Činjarević

The purpose of this paper is to explore the underlying dimensions of local cuisine image by identifying the key cuisine attributes tourists rely on in their evaluations of local…

Guest editorial

Sanda Renko