The perception of food, knowing it from INSIDE is completed through practice, expertise, experience and, of course, fruition of food itself. Fruition, not merely consumption, happens when we interiorize our food. Taste is personal, inner and intimate. But at the same...
Food as a medicine took origin from Hippocrates studious, even if he was convinced that a truly human life was not just a passive consumption, but the products yielded by nature have to be improved, refined and balanced. The ancient Greek morale of temperance,...
Nutrition is synonymous of: calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, salts mineral, vitamins, etc.. Adequately combined they offer the fundamental support for our life and wellbeing. In fact food incorporates elements which work in a beneficial way for our body, in...
It’s curious to notice that the same technologies which characterized this structural change in food, made also possible its preservation and guaranteed the food safety (packaging, preservatives, salt, aging, cooking, drying, cool chain, pasteurization, dehydration...
Consequently to Industrial Revolution (18-19th century) first and Agricultural Revolution later (19-20th century), food started to be transformed, refined and packaged. Not only it determined a fundamental shift in the balance of the diet, but both crops and processed...
Food as money was an important key-point which stimulated first conquistadores to explore the world, searching for India and its precious spices; the same reason for colonialism and formation of economic empires. The reflection of it were exotic goods which slowly...
