In this report, we will focus on “regional resources” related to “food”, and consider how their excavation and utilization have been done from the perspective of geography, based on their history. Specifically, we will analyze the process by which cooking literacy related to “Local Taste” is changing and spreading to the region, with a view to the relationship between the living world and local resources in Kamiina-gun, Nagano Prefecture. The main points are summarized in the following three points. The first point is the structural change surrounding the changes in rural areas and families and the “Local Taste” since the 1980s. Since the 1980s, it has been rediscovered, and cooking literacy for passing on to the next generation has been discovered, reorganized, and disseminated as “local knowledge.” The second point is the process by which local knowledge develops into open commons. Cooking literacy was formed by collecting, publishing, and sharing recipes, and skills and local resources that were shared in a limited range became widely disseminated and utilized as open commons. The third point is that when considering the efforts related to “Local Taste” from the viewpoint of geography, “Place” consisting of daily experience is always in conflict with “Placelessness” that loses its uniqueness and identity.
