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STARS AND FOOD – WEEK FROM 02 TO 08 SEPTEMBER – Italian Cuisine

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lucky from the 24 August to 22 September

Special ingredient: Carthusian or stracchino

The chef recommends: Give yourself a little improvisation for your birthday! Have the courage and determination to let yourself go out of print. Less control and less perfection. You will realize that a makeshift spaghetti at two in the morning gives you more excitement than a long-planned trip. If you can go back to the emotion felt for an unexpected thing, well, look for that feeling again. Nothing complicated, try not to plan, to have nothing under control. Don't look on the internet for what you need, let yourself be carried away by the wind, you'll find everything, including emotion. A glass of white Cortese from Asti to toast and celebrate.

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India, opens the garbage cafe, which offers food in exchange for recycled plastic – Italian Cuisine

Built in a former bus shelter, it provides a full meal in exchange for a pound of garbage, or a free breakfast for 500 grams of waste.

Food in exchange for recycled plastic. India has just launched its first "garbage cafe": Built in a former bus shelter and inspired by other similar projects in Belgium and Cambodia, it opens in the city of Ambikapur, in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Provides a full meal in exchange for a pound of garbage, or a free breakfast for 500 grams of waste.

More than half of the 1.4 billion Indian citizens live in poverty: for many, managing to feed their families is a daily challenge. According to Global Hunger Index 2018, India suffers from a level of hunger classified as "serious" and continues to have one of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world. The approximately 195 million undernourished Indians represent a quarter of the global hunger burden, according to UN data.

But the country must also face the great problem of plastic waste: every day 26 thousand tons are generated. A kilo of plastic, which can usually be collected in a couple of hours, can be exchanged for a curry dish with rice, lentils and a papadum focaccia. For half a kilo, customers of the garbage cafe can instead receive a breakfast based on samosas, lentil buns or stuffed buns.

The collected plastic is then sent to a recycling plant that turns it into granules, to be used for road paving. In India, especially in rural areas, there are more than 34 thousand kilometers of roads made of plastic: this type of material is increasingly popular because it makes the streets more resistant to the scorching temperatures of the country.

Just last year, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, pledged to eliminate all disposable plastics by 2022. This promise represents an important goal, because India's economy is the fastest growing one global. And, in 2015, only 14% of the plastic waste produced in the world was recycled.

Made in Italy food icons at the MoMA in New York: Fattobene! – Italian Cuisine

From the virtual to the real: Made in Italy objects from the Fattobene archive arrive in the United States, on display (and available for purchase) at the prestigious contemporary art museum in New York

The icons of the Made in Italy have earned a place of honor at the MoMA contemporary art museum in New York – and can also be purchased until September 29th. The all-Italian creative genius is celebrated in the Big Apple with a temporary pop-up store with the perfect name (not surprisingly): FATTOBENE. An interesting proposal and in some way expected by lovers of Italian Style from around the world, who here find the everyday objects that have established themselves for their timeless aesthetics. We are not talking about very expensive works of art, but of those tools and products that tell the evolution of Italy through habits, traditions and desires, becoming real cultural symbols. There is no wonder then to find the rolling pin to roll out the pasta or the kitchen apron because the kitchen means culture, a thought always supported by La Cucina Italiana.

FattoBene, much more than a pop up store

The initiative stems from the collaboration with the Fattobene platform, a project born in 2015 from a far-sighted idea of Anna Lagorio, journalist, e Alex Carnevali, photographer. Together, they decided to identify, collect and archive Italian objects that have existed for generations and that have an intrinsic cultural meaning, in addition to a distinctive design. Fattobene is an archive of Italian objects that have existed for generations available for online purchase, as well as a memory catalog.

From the site, the creators of the project tell us: “To find them, we traveled from north to south in search of archetypes of the tradition that time has not scratched and that today are part of our collective imagination. The result is a continuously evolving collection, composed of art deco soaps and popular fabrics, tavern carafes or drinks with ancient names, such as rosolio or ratafià. Each object struck us for different reasons: a unique graphic or design, a curious story or its apparent simplicity (here, even a candle can become a work of art). Many of them are impossible to find outside the region of origin: for this reason, we have decided to create a place where readers can discover the stories. "

Alongside the Zenith stapler, the Coccoina glue or the Martelli toothpaste, the kitchen's objects are numerous – all involuntary containers of memories, flavors and nostalgia attributable to each of us. From the white and blue jar of theAmarena Fabbri, the tower pepper mill Three Swords, lo Saffron Leprotto up to the classic classics like the wooden rolling pin for noodles, the classic striped kitchen towel, the old ravioli machine or the stainless steel egg cup, reproduced by the Fattobene Collection.

From virtual to real

The platform FATTOBENE, the perfect mix of archive and e-commerce, comes to life in the prestigious museum of Soho in New York, where the most important collection of international contemporary art is collected. Here, where you can admire modern artistic treasures such as Andy Warhol's Campbell soups or Frida Kahlo's self-portraits, today you can see and purchase a selection of 150 Made In Italy icons at the boutique design – until September 29th. A journey into memory between the past and the future that Americans like at least as much as Italian cuisine, do we bet?

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Built in a former bus shelter, it provides a full meal in exchange for a pound of garbage, or a free breakfast for 500 grams of waste.

From the virtual to the real: Made in Italy objects from the Fattobene archive arrive in the United States, on display (and available for purchase) at the prestigious contemporary art museum in New York

FattoBene, much more than a pop up store

From virtual to real

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