Presented By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)
MEMS Lecture Series. Eating Italy: A History of Italian Food and Italian Identity
Massimo Montanari, University of Bologna
Pizza, pasta, and tiramisù are today some of the most obvious symbols of Italian culture. Why is this? What has connected food and Italianness so intimately? In this lecture the leading historian of European food explores how the construction of an Italian nation and the confection of an Italian cuisine became entangled. He demonstrates that over the past thousand years, for several and contingent reasons, the inhabitants of the Italian peninsula have politicized their eating habits.
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