Italian Cuisine Week in the World: Mediterranean Diet
Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
Monday, November 12, 2018 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Chicago, IL
On the occasion of the Italian Cuisine Week in the World, November 12-18, 2018, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago is pleased to present the following two lectures:
Mediterranean Diet: a Cultural Pattern which connects Environment, Conviviality, and Longevity
by Professor Elisabetta Moro
presented in English
and
Gastronomia e Democrazia: Pizza, Pasta e altri Italian Foods (Gastronomy and Democracy: Pizza, Pasta, and Other Italian Food)*
by Professor Marino Niola
*presented in Italian with translation in English
Authors Elisabetta Moro and Marino Niola, “I luoghi della dieta mediterranea” (il Mulino, 2017) will discuss the secrets of the Mediterranean diet: convivality, seasonality, sustainability, the foundation of a lifestyle that has conquered the world. The diet, which was inscribed in 2013 on UNESCO’s list of intagible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, was discovered by two American scientists in the 1950s in the area between Naples and the Cilento. Relying on symbolic foods of the Mediterranean triad – cereals, oil, wine – this “anti-diet” successfully combines the legacy of the classic world and local traditions. This book explores the diet’s sacred sites: Campania, Amalfi, Cetara (anchovies), Pozzuoli (the realm of seafood), Apulia (Tricase’s burnt grain pasta, Lecce’s almond paste), Lucania (ancient grains), Sicily (Favignana’s tuna, Palermo’s pancakes, Catania’s fried rice balls), not to mention Naples, Genoa, and Venice.
Elisabetta Moro teaches Cultural Anthropology at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples.
Marino Niola teaches Anthropology of Symbols at the same university. Together they head the Mediterranean Diet Social Research Centre (MedEatResearch).
Please, RSVP at settimanadellacucinaitaliana2018.eventbrite.com