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Che cos’è una minestra? Il sistema delle minestre siciliane
2019
Questo lavoro propone l’analisi e un tentativo di definizione, non esaustiva, di uno dei piatti più diffusi, e al tempo stesso più difficili da collocare nella gastronomia siciliana, la “minestra”. La pietanza rappresenta, sia da un punto di vista semiotico e lessicale, sia da un punto di vista storico, una specificità delle cucine italiane che non sembra avere analoghi, se non in sistemi alimentari culturalmente limitrofi come quello provenzale. La parola minestra indica, al tempo stesso, una singola pietanza e una famiglia di preparazioni diverse, i cui elementi di affinità non sono sempre chiari. È difficile individuare una forma stabile della minestra, quanto sul piano dell’espressione …
La Settimana Santa in Sicilia: invenzioni, transformazioni, permanenze
2021
Le cerimonie della Settimana Santa siciliana presentano, da luogo a luogo, caratteri (che lasciano trasparire, con maggiore o minore evidenza, specifici retroterra storico-culturali e peculiari tradizioni religiose. In alcuni casi, soprattutto nei centri di tradizione rurale, certe sezioni dei riti sembrano sostenute da una visione del mondo e da istanze proprie delle culture agropastorali ed espongono simbolismi che, richiamando l’esigenza di promuovere la renovatio temporis, rivelano il legame istituito a livello mitico tra la rinascita primaverile della natura e la vicenda di morte e resurrezione dell’Uomo-Dio. In altri casi, particolarmente nelle città e nei paesi più grandi, si osserva…
CULTURAL IDENTITY AND CONSERVATION OF INDIGENOUS AND NATIVE DIVERSITY
2014
The economic development of rural areas has rarely followed that of urban centres, with greater evidence of this in developing countries where the outlying communities have remained considerably more remote from the systems of cultural and economic growth. Even if this has had negative repercussions in terms of social equilibrium within the various countries, from a strictly agronomic point of view it has often resulted in the natural conservation of indigenous and native biodiversity. This has been affected by the natural and daily use of local plant extracts both for nutritional purposes and for a variety of other reasons. The exchange of genetic material between one community and another…
How a traditional agricultural protection structure acts in conditioning the internal microclimate: a statistical analytical approach to Giardino Pan…
2014
This work aims to analyze the traditional agricultural technique of the Giardino Pantesco, typical of the isle of Pantelleria (Sicily, Italy). With this particular technique a single citrus tree is encircled by a drywall of volcanic rocks allowing it to grow even in the island's unfavorable meteorological conditions. This technique has been analyzed by placing one instrumental array inside the Giardino and one outside and by measuring different environmental variables. The aim of the work is therefore to understand what is the drywall's effect on the tree by analyzing the time series produced by the sensors, using cross-correlation techniques and reducing the series' autocorrelation, so tha…
I paesaggi agrari tradizionali dell’albero: il significato moderno di forme d’uso del suolo del passato
2011
Italy represents one of the most suitable environment for fruit trees and vines and since the origin of their domestication and introduction in extremely varying environments, depending on the species adaptability and local culture, a complex mosaic of landscapes has been originated by Nature, farmers or gardeners. In the study of the landscape it must be considered that the relationship between fruit trees or vines and landscapes represents a precious aspect of the Italian culture and has been studied by History, represented in Art and Literature, analyzed by science like Architecture and Agronomy, but at first has been created by Agriculture. Owing to the evolution of the relationship lan…
From the old agroforestry systems of the modern high-density olive groves: which Carbon sequestration?
2019
Olive tree (Olea europaea L) represents one of the most important evergreen tree species. In Sicily agroforestry systems based on the olive tree, named traditional olive orchard, are common and often are grown together to other tree crops, such as vineyards, or with cereals or forages. This last are usually grown in the interspace between rows and particularly in olive groves were planting density is rather low (less than 200 trees/ha). To increase crop efficiency and to reduce costs of harvesting, by using proper machines, in the last 20 years in the olive industry have been developed new planting systems: Intensive (up to 400 trees/ha), and the Superintensive (up to 2000 trees/ha). Within…
Traditional use of wood in Sicily
2020
The results of a multidisciplinary survey on the use of wood in Sicily are presented here. This research, based on a thorough review of the information available from numerous sources, mostly related to Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities, sheds light on the lasting, widespread and diversified use of many tens of woody species - native and cultivated - growing on the island. This work represents an initial contribution to a topic largely overlooked the national and regional literature concerning forest sciences and wood technology. Contrariwise, the very precise information available on the specific uses of wood from certain Sicilian woody species clearly testifies to the profound knowle…
Transfer, composition and technological characterization of the lactic acid bacterial populations of the wooden vats used to produce traditional stre…
2015
The biofilms of 12 wooden vats used for the production of the traditional stretched cheeses Caciocavallo Palermitano and PDO Vastedda della valle del Belìce were investigated. Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes were never detected. Total coliforms were at low numbers with Escherichia coli found only in three vats. Coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS) were below the enumeration limit, whereas lactic acid bacteria (LAB) dominated the surfaces of all vats. In general, the dominance was showed by coccus LAB. Enterococci were estimated at high numbers, but usually between 1 and 2 Log cycles lower than other LAB. LAB populations were investigated at species and strain level and for thei…
Evolution of the forest landscape in the Punic Eparchy area (West Sicily): the importance of cork oak in natural residual vegetation for the purposes…
2018
The natural forest vegetation in the territory of the western provinces of Sicily (Palermo, Trapani and Agrigento) has almost completely disappeared. This area coincides with the ancient administrative ter- ritorial unit that precedes the division into three "valleys" of the most inhabited island of the Mediterranean: it is the Val di Mazara, remembered by archaeologists as "Punic Eparchy". As a seat of important Greek cities (Himera, Solunto, Entella, Agrigento, Gela, Eraclea Minoa, Segesta, Selinunte, Erice, Lilibeo, Mozia, etc.), it was a Punic domain before being abandoned. Due to the lack of a marked relief and the benefit of climate, agriculture was practiced for three millennia. In t…
DIVERSITÀ BIOCULTURALE DI ALCUNI PAESAGGI MEDITERRANEI DI MONTAGNA
2016
The work presents a biocultural diversity interpretation of traditional Mediterranean agricultural landscapes. These landscapes are the result of complex interactions between biodiversity (at all levels, including species richness, ecosystem and biotope diversity) and cultural diversity, including material and immaterial aspects (architectural heritage, traditions, customs, local traditional agricultural practices, dialectal culture, etc.). The main theme is the traditional use of water related to traditional hydraulic systems, which in some areas date back to medieval times. Traditional agricultural landscapes grant a variety of ecosystem services and play a key role in biodiversity conser…