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foodification

foodification noun: an urban phenomenon and form of gentrification when a neighborhood’s businesses are aggressively displaced by tourist-oriented eateries or specialty food halls.

Noun

foodification (uncountable)

  1. An urban phenomenon and form of gentrification when a neighborhood’s businesses are aggressively displaced by tourist-oriented eateries or specialty food halls.
    • foodification has accelerated the transformation of Florence's historic centre into a tourist-oriented retail space2020, Mirella Loda, Sara Bonati, Matteo Puttilli, “History to eat. The foodification of the historic centre of Florence”, in Academia
    • Foodification is influenced by broader forces, including gentrification, but is also affected by factors particular to this neighborhood. These include Jewish heritage tourism; religious dietary laws; and a growing curiosity about hyper-local food, such as cucina ebraico-romanesca (Jewish-Roman...2023, Wyer, Sean, “Gourmet and the Ghetto: The “Foodification” of Rome’s Historic Jewish Quarter”, in Gastronomica

Examples of foodification in a sentence

  • Foodification is influenced by broader forces, including gentrification, but is also affected by factors particular to this neighborhood.2023, Wyer, Sean, “Gourmet and the Ghetto: The “Foodification” of Rome’s Historic Jewish Quarter”, in Gastronomica:
  • However, the Neapolitan manifestation of foodification is distinct from the food gentrification processes observed in the Anglo-Saxon world.2025, Antón Freire Varela, “Eating the city: Socio-spatial analysis of the foodification process in the city of Naples (Italy)”, in...

Origin of foodification

food + -ification; likely styled after gentrification.

Questions about foodification

What does foodification mean?
Foodification means an urban phenomenon and form of gentrification when a neighborhood’s businesses are aggressively displaced by tourist-oriented eateries or specialty food halls.
How do you use foodification in a sentence?
Foodification is influenced by broader forces, including gentrification, but is also affected by factors particular to this neighborhood.
What part of speech is foodification?
Foodification is a noun.

Words near foodification in the dictionary

  1. foodie call
  2. foodie-ism
  3. foodier
  4. foodies
  5. foodiest
  6. foodification
  7. foodious
  8. foodism
  9. foodist
  10. foodista
  11. foodistas

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