Italian Food, a report based on identity and conviviality – Il Sole 24 Ore

July 4, 2015

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Milan (askanews) – Italians, people of lovers and food connoisseurs, with a strong identity made of typical food: 46000000 know and are passionate about the topic, 50 claim to eat every day Italian dishes, 29, like to experiment and eat foreign, especially ethnic. The food in Italy is at the heart of the relationship, so that 19.6 million people eat outside the home to meet up with friends. Are the results of the report “The Italians and the food ” presented at Expo 2015 and edited by Censis for Italy Pavilion: the pattern that emerges is called “polytheistic ” with a great articulation of choice as explained by President Joseph De Rita. “Italian who was born in Italy because it is the home of bio diversity. The real problem is that there is a diversity in the top, that the way you eat with homogeneity very strong, and that is the bottom of each company territorial. In between are all attempts to make us industry “. ” The palace and that of Italian identity, then here is this attention to biodiversity and recommendation to keep it then that we find in the report “said the Commissioner of the Pavilion Italy, Diana Bracco.Il report also analyzes the impact of the economic crisis on the consumption of Italian 2.4 million households last year had financial problems and were unable to buy the food they need, especially those with younger children, 830 thousand in a year. With the crisis have widened the social gap. “Italy is made in such a way that the social diversity, as they did in the old estates farmer, I get compensated for by Community occasions and price differences canceled by the desire to be together and live together and cook the polenta with suede “said the president of Censis.Le two challenges of Expo are therefore: strengthening the power and the presence of Italian food in the world and social inclusion, ie the reduction of inequalities.

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