ABSTRACT
In the last chapter, six younger Florentines spoke about gender and food in the 1980s and gave an idea of where things were headed. The quality of the diet was changing along with content of meals, habits of eating, and meanings of consumption. In this final chapter, I summarize Florentines’ perspectives on changing cuisine in the 1980s and place them in the context of foodways in the new millennium. Older people particularly emphasized three major changes: abundance, taking consumption for granted, and the loss of desire due to excess. I suggest that these changes could be summarized as a movement from poco ma buono-“only a little, but let it be good”—to molto, ma buono?—“a lot, but is it good?”
