From tastes to tastes

Producing, cooking and eating food is culture, and nutrition is a language: you learn to eat as you learn to
speak and first food experience affect you indelibly. Every food is the reflection of a culture and distinguishes
one from another. But it is also true that modern food has been “standardized” to adapt more and more to
“global” palate. In this way, it has lost its connotation of element of communication, culture, tradition, history
of communities and peoples who have based their own social identity on the culinary and gastronomic
traditions. Furthermore, food performs symbolically a number of social and cultural functions that point to
interaction between the personal identity of the individual and the community from where he/she comes
and where he/she lives, opening up to welcoming, meeting and exchange moments. Appreciating food,
conviviality, the work of the producers and the importance of variety and biodiversity is a key value in the
enhancement of one’s sense of belonging to a community and in finding close to other peoples and cultures.