As part of the 2nd Week of Italian Cuisine, held from November 20 to November 26 2017, promoted by MAECI (Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale) MIUR (Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca) and MIPAAF (Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali), the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal in collaboration with Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada (ICCC) present the conference: “The new offering of foods in places with a different urban function. Catering and historical-artistic heritage” by Antida Gazzola.
November 20, 2017, 8pm – Free Admission
Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec
3535, rue Saint-Denis
Conference in French
Cities provide a self-image and a material contribution to well-being through the supply of foods to be consumed in the background of internal and external scenarios that are never neutral and affect all the perceptions. The places for collective offer of food have existed for millennia. Currently, some relatively new phenomena are emergin: one concerns the increasingly frequent insertion of food spaces into spaces that have built for other functions. The first example concerns stations, airports, roads, highways (transit sites) and now extended to health centers, shopping malls, and even universities, libraries, museums, creating singular combinations of food and culture. Another relatively new phenomenon, spread allover the world and with excellent examples in Italy, is the use of parts of buildings of historical and artistic interest, sometimes restored and preserved in order to become restaurants or cafes. In this way the pleasure of the table adds to the possibility of enjoying spaces of great charm and beauty. A special case is offered by the use of the public spaces of streets and squares “colonized” by bars and restaurants with the expansions of tables placed outdoors. This solution has nothing to do with the phenomenon of the spread of “street foods” to be consumed on the way but it is connected with the pleasure to see and to be seen. In all the cases described, we tend to a kind of maximization of pleasure through the accumulation of sensory stimulations. The city of Genoa offers some interesting examples – such as the World Pesto Championship – of complex interactions between productions and tastings of foods, prestigious sites and cultural dimensions.
Antida GAZZOLA, born in Sanremo (IM), where she graduated in class, graduated in Genoa, obtaining her degree in law and specialization in Clinical Criminology with the highest marks and praise. She has been a consultant for O.N.U for a four-year (1989-1992). (SSE L / 3 33/89 contract) for training activities in favor of the Maghreb countries on topics related to the knowledge of the urban environment. In 2000-2001 she coordinated, in Genoa, one of the Italian working groups who collaborated with the MOST – UNESCO program “Les mots de la ville“. She is currently full time professor of Urban and Rural Sociology, Sociology of the Environment and Territory, and Sociology of the Environment and Communication at the Polytechnic School of the University of Genoa.
She is Vice President of CRAFTS (Applied Research Center and Training on Territorial and Social Dynamics).
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