Eating is a political act and "of love": chronicles from the Farnesina Week of Italian Cuisine.
The seventh edition of the "Week of Italian Cuisine", the review of the Farnesina born in the valley of Expo 2015 Milan to enhance Italian food and wine excellence abroad, through the network of Embassies, Consulates, Cultural Institutes and ICE offices - Agency for the promotion abroad and internationalization of Italian companies.
This year, the Italian System has expressed its agri-food heritage in more than 1000 initiatives in over 100 countries, involving all stakeholders in the supply chain, from chefs, farmers, experts, scientists, startups, journalists, policy makers, young people, distributors, processors and producers.
Future Food Instituteas every year, has supported this promotional journey, enhancing the theme of the exhibition, namely "Conviviality, sustainability and innovation: the ingredients of Italian cuisine for the health of people and the protection of the planet" and doing so in line with the values that guide our ecosystem and that coincide with the spirit of this ministerial initiative.
Italian cuisine is in fact, as Jean Brunhes, the French geographer who wrote "La géographie humaine," "incorporate a territory"with all its culture, memory in the Proustian sense, ecosystem, biodiversity, history, diplomacy, rituals, identities, natural resources and the attention to preserve them, especially in the current climate crisis, is mastery, is to hand down traditions, is to experiment innovations, It is health, it is worrying about what we eat and at the same time who we face when we eat, as Epicurus would say. Italy on the plate is all this and Future Food Institute started from all these dimensions to pack the principles of Italian cuisine and leave for:
- Kazakhstan (Astana), where from 12 to 15 November we supported the Italian Embassy led by H.E. Marco Alberti;
- Germany (Berlin), where from 15 to 16 November we supported the Italian Embassy led by H.E. Armando Varricchio;
- United States (New York), where from 16 to 18 November we supported the Consulate General of Italy led by Min. Plen. Fabrizio Di Michele;
- Japan (Tokyo), where on November 17 we organized an event sponsored by the Italian Embassy led by H.E. Gianluigi Benedetti;
- United Nations HQ (New York), where on November 18, with the Municipality of Pollica, we organized an event promoted by the Italian Permanent Representation led by H.E. Maurizio Massari.
In New York, with our Permanent Representation, in the headquarters of the United Nations, we celebrated the Italian Cuisine as a powerful vehicle capable of spreading the Mediterranean Diet in the World. A moment of enormous value that closed the year of Italian presidency of the Network of the UNESCO Emblematic Communities of the Mediterranean Diet chaired by Stefano Pisani, Mayor of the Municipality of Pollica. "The conference organized at the UN was fundamental to highlight the richness offered by the Intangible Heritage "Mediterranean Diet" as a true cultural framework of development that contains all the values and priorities dictated by the 2030 Agenda. A model rooted in history, our history, but extremely projected towards the future. The integral ecological approach that characterizes the Mediterranean Lifestyle is concretely manifested in policies of regeneration and sustainable development that aim at the health of local communities and the protection of resources and territories. It’s the starting point to generate new connections towards increasingly sustainable development, to strengthen strategic alliances and strengthen their national and international spread."
