Contemporaneity is also based on food taboos, which in most cases are not indicated by canonical religions but by other dogmas: the dietician, the healthy, and so on.

«Men are what they do not eat», this was proclaimed by Dario Bressanini in his lesson covering fake myths in food. «There's too much psychological terrorism going on. An obsession for a particular food or ingredient is being nourished – one can say. One day “00” flour causes cancer, and it's not true at all; the next, it's red and cured meat, which is only partly true, it depends on the quantity». This is all rubbish.

Culturally speaking, «one needs to eliminate the neo-pagan idea that what derives from man is harmful while what comes from nature is healthy». Hemlock is poisonous, gm food is not.

Man is what he doesn't eat (yet), then says Paolo Marchi: «Today we discuss at length about cooking with leftovers, but this is a concept that still only reaches a limited part of the population, because we've fought hunger for centuries and dreamt of abundance, which is in fact waste».

Yet, re-using leftovers is now accepted even in fine dining. This is demonstrated by Nicola Portinari (in the photo, during his lecture) who advises the pizza chefs participating in the symposium to use techniques such as vacuum and low temperature cooking that are not new though new technologies present them with clear advantages: they prolong food life and make it possible to use parts that were traditionally considered too hard, leathery or stodgy for their consumption to be pleasant.

Carlo Passera
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