PARIS (APRO) .- On August 24 thousand inhabitants of Amatrice were preparing to celebrate the Amatriciana , when a violent earthquake hit the medieval village, one of the most picturesque in Italy.
to date have registered 291 dead and 400 injured in the town and its surroundings
damage affecting the rich architectural heritage of the town itself and in the region are considerable.: -churches a total of 293 monuments, palaces, mansions and houses from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are ruined or partially destroyed.
Given the scale of this human and cultural tragedy, everyone forgot Amatriciana , this cheerful holiday that celebrates 50 years all’amatriciana paste at the end of August.
Invented in the night time by a modest pastor of Amatrice, salsa amatriciana -elaborada based on tomatoes, spicy chili, pork and cheese mask picorino – is a real “treasure” Roman cuisine.
it is the passion of Paolo Campana, one based in Rome and “blogista kitchen” graphic artist that ever since he can remember travels every summer to Amatrice for Amatriciana <. / em>
Bell and his friends also invented another ritual: every midnight December 31 to receive the new year in the Hotel di Roma -today wiped off the map- savoring their favorite pasta.
Just learned of the tragedy, he rushed blogista his “adoptive people.” He walked through rubble, he shared the immense distress of its inhabitants and returned to Rome had a brilliant idea: to launch a campaign of gastronomic solidarity with the cradle of the all’amatriciana pasta
The success was complete . Social networks spread the call bell which was answered immediately 700 chefs Italian. He accounts all restaurateurs who mobilize solidarity in Italy today lost.
is conquering the entire country, including Naples, where it competes with the legendary The all’amatriciana paste spaghetti alle vogole (based on clams) or no less emblematic spaghetti alla puttanesca (made from anchovies and black olives), once the favorite dish of Neapolitan prostitutes .
the initiative Campana quickly took on an international dimension when Jamie Oliver threw himself into the adventure. Oliver is an iconoclastic British chef whose television programs, first in the BBC and then Channel Four triumphed and continue triumphing in Britain and in the United States and Australia.
Nicknamed naked chef (naked chef), not because they impart their cooking classes in costume of Adam, but because he refuses to wear the traditional cap chef, Oliver used his fame to denounce the “unpalatable” menu of British school canteens and forced the Ministry of Education to address this serious problem.
also he created a restaurant-school in which trains young people with social problems, offering them the opportunity to launched as chefs or managers of restaurants. Obtained such positive results that created several establishments of the same kind in other parts of Britain and in the Netherlands and Australia.
chef “humanist” did not hesitate a second to support Campana initiative. Today the slogan “Eat Amatriciana for Amatrice” runs the British blogosphere and was adopted by several restaurant chains in Britain.
Spaguetti solidarity
Carlo Petrini, another character out of the ordinary, gave itself a global echo the spaghetti solidarity .
Renowned Italian food critic, journalist and sociologist 70, Carlín , so everybody calls created in 1989 the association slow food (slow food) to counter the disastrous effects on human health and the global culinary heritage of restaurants fast food (fast food) that began to invade the planet and still do.
Today the small association that was born in the region of the Italian Piemonte, is an extremely active international network, recognized as a public utility by the Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) .Slow Foodcuenta with 100 thousand members, among which cooks, academics, environmentalists and agronomists encouraging thousand 500 local antennas, called “conviviums”, scattered in 160 countries.
in 2004, Petrini think another international network: Terra Madre, which brings together two thousand “communities of food” also spread over the five continents that are mobilized to preserve the quality of local agricultural products and safeguarding food biodiversity threatened by industry sector.
Among the goals of Terra Madre, Carlin stresses the importance of encouraging and protecting “public awareness of the culinary traditions and the customs associated with them … “.
When he learned of the initiative of Paolo Campana, president of Slow Food summoned all restaurateurs connected to their networks action to show solidarity with Amatrice under the hashtag # A future for Amatrice . His intention is not limited to raising funds to help people survive among the ruins and then rebuild his people
Explain Carlín .
” the idea is that the pasta all ‘amatriciana , a dish that symbolizes the gastronomic history of Amatrice, serves to disseminate the values of solidarity and own exchange of peasant culture in which it originated. “
Unlike Bell, Petrini proposes to bring the operation of solidarity for a year and deliver the funds collected directly to the municipality of Amatrice.
According to the Internet, the international movement of restaurateurs, chefs, gourmets and gourmands of all calibers convened by Slow Food and Terra Madre is going well.
by pure professional conscience, correspondent appro was launched to do reporting in Paris and did not the slightest problem to find an Italian restaurant where you could taste the now famous all’amatriciana pastas . A delight!
But the tastiest were not the spaghettis perfectly cooked al dente , not the contrast between the tender mask pork and chili spicy, but the sense of sharing something, though ephemeral, with thousands of strangers.
of course, no need killjoy who report a very hypocritical way to buy a good conscience …
So goes the world …
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