For the Gustamundo project, tonight, in Rome, two women living in the Casa di Leda will offer the specialties of their tradition: from sarma to ciupapsi, to mussaka
The Roma cuisine specialties, prepared by two cooks who will introduce diners to the most appetizing flavors of their tradition. Tonight, at 8 pm, the appointment is in Rome, in via Giacinto de Vecchi Pieralice, 38, at the restaurant of Gustamundo: is a project that was born with the idea of proposing social integration through the kitchen and that, with the collaboration of reception centers and non-profit organizations, organizes multi-ethnic dinners prepared by women and men from the most disadvantaged countries.
In the kitchen there are Bea and Behara, both of Roma origin, who live in the House of Leda, a protected structure, active since 2017, where women are accepted as an alternative to detention with their minor children (the spaces used by the House are those confiscated from the mafia). For this special solidarity dinner they will offer typical dishes like the sarma and i ciupapsi, but also the mussaka: a culinary journey through the notes of paprika, coconut flour and dark chocolate.
For both Bea and Behara, who in 2021 will finish serving their sentences, appointments such as Gustamundo's solidarity dinner represent an opportunity to return to normal life, but also a step towards a more dignified condition, of greater social and economic inclusion, together with their children.
"On people like Bea and Behara there are more risk factors in terms of marginalization," explains Pasquale Campagnone, founder and director of Gustamundo. "Their Roma origins and the penalty they are serving". But the ghettoization is fought first of all through the occasions of encounter between people, of mutual understanding and exchange. Like a dinner like this that, among its objectives, includes that of overcoming the widespread prejudices towards the other.
In Italy, according to data from the European Community, there are between 110 thousand and 180 thousand people of Romani origin: about 0.23-0.25% of the total population. Only one in five lives in a condition of precarious housing, but prejudice contributes to perpetrating the state of discrimination against the whole minority.
To book dinner write to info@gustamundo.it or call 366 8976779.
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