An anthropological study of food tourism with the focus on Fooman town ship in Gilan province

Local food products, based on a specific conception of food heritage, play an important role in the development of the rural tourism sector in Gilan. This article seeks to better understand the role tourism plays in the creation, or revival, of cultural identity based on local food products and food heritage from the point of anthropology approach. The article highlights the consequences of the emergence of culinary and local food heritage for tourists in Gilan, and concludes that tourism increases the awareness of food heritage and strengthens local identity. The main purpose in this paper is To Anthropological Study of food tourism with the focus on Fooman town ship and to find types of native Gilanian food. This article is based on quality and tools of data collection is documental, Informal – in depth interviews and participant observations. It is mention in the theoretical framework the present research for its analysis of data, is based on STRUCTURALISM theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss.