Nourishing the Nation

<p> In the early twenty-first century nationalism has seen a surprising resurgence across the Western world. In the Catalan Autonomous Community in northeastern Spain this resurgence has been most apparent in widespread support for Catalonia's pro-independence movement and the popular assertion of Catalan symbols culture and identity in everyday life. <em>Nourishing the Nation</em> provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia using an essential everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.</p>