"Tradition and culture in Italian Food" a talk by Lynne Chatterton at The Attic, CP - 6:30 pm on 7th January 2010
Time : 6:30 pm
Entry : Free
Event Details : 'Tradition and culture in Italian Food’ a talk by Lynne Chatterton
Brillat Savarin said "Show me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are" - and someone else said "Most people eat to live but the French live to eat" - well, I can say from experience that to Italians life is eating.
To an Italian, food represents family, hospitality, joy and pleasure, sharing and loving. It is not just the ingredients - although these are treasured and celebrated. Italians would rather have guests at their table than not. To eat alone is sadness.
Growing food is being part of nature and an essential human activity. Seasons are marked by what can be sown or harvested. The movements of moon and sun are read by Italians to guide them with the management of farms and gardens.
Cooking is never a chore, but always a pleasure. And cooking with family, relatives and friends is best of all. Consider spending summer holidays cooking huge meals for fifty or more people, yet that is what many Italian women and men happily do every summer as they produce pasta, pizza, breads and dolce to make their summer festas memorable for all those who attend them.
Growing food is a passion and fresh food is valued above any pretty
packed novelty lurking on supermarket shelves. Food is small talk, serious discussion, a focus of study, sometimes argument. Is this the result of past poverty or is it something innate in Italian culture? And has zero population changed the Italian attitude to food?
Lynne Chatterton, is the author of "Sustainable Dryland Farming" (CUP). a book about farmers and their successes in growing wheat and sheep in semi-arid regions of the world, and "Red Herrings" a memoir about life, food and farming. She grew up in Australia with the desert on one side of her village and the great River Murray on the other. She lived on an irrigated fruit farm, then married a wheat/sheep farmer, experienced political life from the inside, travelled widely, wrote and spoke regularly about food - from how food is grown, marketed, sold and cooked, to how food policy is made. Now writing "Cooking without Fear" - a book connecting what we cook in our homes with current world crises of climate change, water conflicts, diminishing fish stocks, declining and eroded farmland, and globalised trade. How, in spite of these threats, home cooking can bring us pleasure and satisfaction.
She has lived in Central Italy for twenty years, outside a small mountain village, growing and cooking the food about which she writes.
Entry : Free
Place : The Attic, 36, Regal building, Parliament Street, Next to 'The Shop', Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001
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Event Details : 'Tradition and culture in Italian Food’ a talk by Lynne Chatterton
Brillat Savarin said "Show me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are" - and someone else said "Most people eat to live but the French live to eat" - well, I can say from experience that to Italians life is eating.
To an Italian, food represents family, hospitality, joy and pleasure, sharing and loving. It is not just the ingredients - although these are treasured and celebrated. Italians would rather have guests at their table than not. To eat alone is sadness.
Growing food is being part of nature and an essential human activity. Seasons are marked by what can be sown or harvested. The movements of moon and sun are read by Italians to guide them with the management of farms and gardens.
Cooking is never a chore, but always a pleasure. And cooking with family, relatives and friends is best of all. Consider spending summer holidays cooking huge meals for fifty or more people, yet that is what many Italian women and men happily do every summer as they produce pasta, pizza, breads and dolce to make their summer festas memorable for all those who attend them.
Growing food is a passion and fresh food is valued above any pretty
packed novelty lurking on supermarket shelves. Food is small talk, serious discussion, a focus of study, sometimes argument. Is this the result of past poverty or is it something innate in Italian culture? And has zero population changed the Italian attitude to food?
Lynne Chatterton, is the author of "Sustainable Dryland Farming" (CUP). a book about farmers and their successes in growing wheat and sheep in semi-arid regions of the world, and "Red Herrings" a memoir about life, food and farming. She grew up in Australia with the desert on one side of her village and the great River Murray on the other. She lived on an irrigated fruit farm, then married a wheat/sheep farmer, experienced political life from the inside, travelled widely, wrote and spoke regularly about food - from how food is grown, marketed, sold and cooked, to how food policy is made. Now writing "Cooking without Fear" - a book connecting what we cook in our homes with current world crises of climate change, water conflicts, diminishing fish stocks, declining and eroded farmland, and globalised trade. How, in spite of these threats, home cooking can bring us pleasure and satisfaction.
She has lived in Central Italy for twenty years, outside a small mountain village, growing and cooking the food about which she writes.
"Tradition and culture in Italian Food" a talk by Lynne Chatterton at The Attic, CP - 6:30 pm on 7th January 2010
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