Vieni a mangiare da me? Un'analisi esplorativa del fenomeno del social eating

The social practices of hosting P2P social dining events: insights for sustainable tourism

“…Both also find that guests stress the importance of intimate social interaction and the added (albeit unpredictable) benefits that may be generated through social dining compared with restaurant experiences. For guests, conviviality and commensality (Mortara & Fragapane, 2018), alongside the evocation of an authentic geographical sense of place through food, are key motivators. The food consumed in social dining settings, as with other studies of collective feasts, becomes more than mere sustenance and transforms itself into an immaterial "cultural artefact" (Everett & Aitchison, 2008, p. 151).…”