La cucina povera: arte della necessità
Poor cooking: the art of necessity
Pasta and beans, ribollita, panzanella, cacio and pepe: dishes that today are found in the restaurants most renowned in the world, were born from tables peasant where there was nothing to waste nothing to waste.
The principle at the heart of this tradition is simple: nothing is thrown away nothing. The bread stale becomes panzanella or ribollita; the offal become rich ragù rich; even the rinds of parmesan are used to flavour the soups.
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Every region of Italy has its own version of poor cooking poor. In Sicily the pasta with the sardines combined the sea with the fennel wild of the fields; in Tuscany the ribollita reused the minestrone of the previous day previous.
Today the poor cooking poor is become synonymous with sustainability and mindfulness food. What that a time was once the fruit of poverty is now now celebrated as an expression of culinary intelligence culinary.
In an era in which food waste waste food is become a global problem global, the wisdom of the our grandparents — use everything, waste nothing — appears more modern than ever.