QI was still a small dad my dad, took me to a restaurant at the mouth of the Tiber. The specialty was the “canocchie” or “sea diapers”of the Irsuti shrimp full of protuberances of the same family of the cicadas, in practice of the small marine monsters who invited me to eat with their hands forcing me to suck the shell so as not to lose what was one of the great pleasures of life for him. AND Every time I find them on some menu I can only order them Because they are my childhood together with the tomato omelettes much more harmless maternal specialty.
Food, even if it has now become a subject for voyeurists who cannot exempt themselves from photographing every dish served to them, in reality It has deep roots in our personal history and tells more than many other human activities who we areour ties, origins, relationships. Whether Marcel Proust tells us by soaking his “Madeleine” or Alberto Sordi by rolling the spaghetto that caused him, always reveals the identity of us mortals.
To trace a “tasty” sentimental map of this emotional universe is Mariachiara Montera, a brilliant food-writer, in her latest book Juice (Blackie)a passionate scroll inside this universe too often confined to the talent of starred chefs.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
Tell me how you eat …
The author returns to expand the horizon of our nourishment Starting from the family table that reconnects us to the pastpassing through many different meanings of “hunger”, because we do not eat only to feed us, our food behaviors are linked to restriction or overclusum, through food we try to achieve a cognitive, or emotional state …
“Sago” by Mariachiara Montera (Blackie).
It tells of the original experiences and unpublished stories, also reminding us that the diets and the refusal of food are often the result of a social control of the bodies, especially those of women who must always comply and respond to impossible diktat. Montera In his long study path he documented himself about all possible shades Of this fascinating matter with which he manages to read the world, the economy and migrations.
In a suffering contemporaneity, devastated by wars, by unstoppable climate change and unbearable inequalities, The study of food can help us understand who we are and the relationships that bind us to others Because “food has most of the answers in itself, you just have to know how to question it in the right way”. And Montera knows how to do it.
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