Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine BioMed Central Research Open Access The importance of a taste. A comparative study on wild food plant consumption in twenty-one local communities in Italy Maria Pia Ghirardini2, Marco Carli2, Nicola del Vecchio2, Ariele Rovati2, Ottavia Cova2, Francesco Valigi2, Gaia Agnetti2, Martina Macconi2, Daniela Adamo2, Mario Traina2, Francesco Laudini2, Ilaria Marcheselli2, Nicolò Caruso2, Tiziano Gedda2, Fabio Donati2, Alessandro Marzadro2, Paola Russi2, Caterina Spaggiari2, Marcella Bianco2, Riccardo Binda2, Elisa Barattieri2, Alice Tognacci2, Martina Girardo2, Luca Vaschetti2, Piero Caprino2, Erika Sesti2, Giorgia Andreozzi2, Erika Coletto2, Gabriele Belzer2 and Andrea Pieroni*1,3 Address: 1School of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Richmond Bd., Richmond Rd., Bradford, BD71DP, Bradford, UK, 2University of Gastronomic Sciences, P.za Vittorio Emanuele 9, I-12060 Bra/Pollenzo, Italy and 3SCH Group, Department of Social Sciences, University of Wageningen, Postbus 8060, NL-6700 DA Wageningen, The Netherlands Email: Maria Pia Ghirardini -
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