All Italian crops derive from seeds (or from animals) imported from East Asia via the Arab world, from the Near East, from Africa, and from Latin America with its 500,000 botanical species compared with the 20,000 found in Eurasia. Without this contribution from the rest of the world, biodiversity would not exist in Italy, and the same holds true for all other countries. This memento is for whoever fears and distrusts the introduction of alien crops into Italy. The hard facts are that crops travel, food travels, taste travels, cuisine travels, and we ourselves travel, even when we stand still in our ever-changing, ever-shifting world. Some of those travels are merely natural migrations, others stem from acts of piracy: nonetheless, high-yield crops chase the less productive ones, and this cannot be stopped.
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Allan Bay is an enogastronomic journalist contributing to Corriere della Sera and to ViviMilano where is responsible for the column about the restaurants in Milano. Cuisine has always been his passion, from great restaurants to the history of nutrition. Not a big fan of tradition, he loves mixing techniques and foods. Cookery has always been his favourite hobby. His two manuals Cuochi si diventa (2003 and 2004), published by Feltrinelli, have met with huge success. He is the editor of Ponte Alle Grazie’s cuisine series Il lettore goloso, and has produced the Salani Gabo set of books for children. Among his latest publications are: La cena delle meraviglie (with Camilla Baresani, Feltrinelli, 2008); Cucinare verde (with Cristina Bay, Tea, 2008); La dieta BaSo (with Nicola Sorrentino, Salani, 2008); La Cucina Nazionale Italiana (with P. Salvatori, Ponte alle Grazie, 2008); Nella mia cucina (2010), Cosa mangiamo. La guida completa per conoscere segreti e proprietà di tutti gli alimenti (with N. Sorrentino, 2011) published by Mondadori Electa.
Allan Bay & i Dialoghi
2013
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