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Alimentación y salud en la Valencia medieval. Teorías y prácticas
2013
The aim of this article is to provide an initial survey about the relationship between food habits and health in a Mediterranean city during the Late Middle Ages, by comparing medical treatises, gastronomic recipes and the archival sources that tell us about the actual expenses in food. Through this comparison, and by using accounting records of aristocratic houses, merchant enterprises, convents and hospitals, we can observe the dietary guidelines that were applied, and their concordance with the galenic principles of University medicine. Moreover, we attempt to assess what were the key factors in the evolution of these theories’ guidelines, and how they were probably rather a way to appro…
Report of the IVth Workshop of the Spanish National Network on Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Fungi and Their Decontamination Processes (MICOFOOD), Held in…
2019
Ensiling is a practice commonly employed worldwide to preserve different kinds of crops for long periods of storage with similar nutritional values to the fresh materials. Since silages are one of the major components of the ruminant diet, these materials represent a potential source of mycotoxins as a consequence of the growth of filamentous fungi. The aim of this study was to analyse the presence of aflatoxins and Fusarium mycotoxins in different types of silages (maize, grass, alfalfa, sugar beet pulp, immature corn and ryegrass) collected in dairy farms located in four Spanish regions. Fungal populations, lactic acid bacteria, pH and water activity of the samples were also evaluated. Pe…
Nutrigenética, nutrigenómica y dieta mediterránea: una nueva visión para la gastronomía
2018
Both nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics are disciplines that form part of what is known as Nutritional Genomics, which, in the widest sense, provides the framework for integrating different omics with food and nutrition sciences. After decades of nutrigenetic and nutrigenomic studies, there is a large enough amount of knowledge to consider its application in so-called precision nutrition. This new discipline seeks to take into account the particular characteristics of the individual in order to provide the best diet for preventing or treating a disease. Omic markers are considered to be of importance to that personalization. There are many foods, nutrients and dietary patterns that have been r…
Rural Gastronomy Events and Visitors’ Attitude
2018
Abstract This paper presents the events meant to promote Sibiu as a European Gastronomic Region. The collection of data from local public authorities and operators from traditional local gastronomy was carried out. The participation in three gastronomic events organized in the countryside allowed us to observe the number of locals involved in events, exhibitors and visitors. Local gastronomy products have also been identified. The sociological survey among 48 visitors allowed us to pinpoint the profile of people who participate in such events.
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 …
Alice Giannitrapani (éd.), Foodscapes: cibo in città, Milan, Cartacea, 2021, 284 p.
2023
Cela a dû arriver à tout le monde. À Paris, au pied de la Tour Eiffel en mangeant des macarons ou une crêpe sucrée, à Palerme, avec un « panino con le panelle » sur le rivage du village balnéaire de Mondello, ou encore à Amsterdam, en se promenant sur les canaux avec un cornet en papier rempli de chips ou à Berlin, avec une bière et un jarret de porc fumé parmi les tables d’un restaurant typique. Partout, la nourriture nous relie aux lieux que nous visitons car il est dans le sens commun que la visite d’une ville passe aussi par la dégustation des plats qui la caractérisent. Elle est au cœur, après tout, du tourisme œno-gastronomique : le tour du street food ou les forfaits gastronomiques d…
Una Congiura degli Uguali: involtini & friends
2020
Quel che fa l’involtino è la sua conformazione, o poco più. Anche se talvolta la medesima forma, investita da sostanze precise, cambia non solo nome ma anche posizione nel menu e dunque statuto. Il sistema della gastronomia, si sa, tende a riequilibrarsi di continuo, accettando nuove varianti e provando a istituzionalizzarle con una qualche motivazione, spesso posticcia. La lettura dei testi gastronomici svela a questo proposito un panorama assai complesso. What makes the roll is its conformation, or little more. Even if sometimes the same shape, invested with precise substances, changes not only its name but also its position in the menu and therefore its statute. The gastronomy system, as…
Forme del fritto: alcune esperienze di consumo
2020
Questo capitolo propone uno studio sul campo di una pratica alimentare che caratterizza la Sicilia e, in particolare, la città di Palermo: lo street food. Lo street food palermitano si caratterizza per essere indissolubilmente legato alla frittura, una modalità di cottura pervasiva tanto nei mercati storici della città, quanto in quei luoghi chiusi che, in forme diverse, tentano di replicarne l'esperienza. Il fritto è, ancor prima che una modalità di cottura dei cibi, un particolare dispositivo ambientale e sensoriale, che pregiudica olfattivamente gli spazi di vendita e consumo e che spinge, alcuni format di distribuzione, a limitarne la pervasività. Vedremo, in questo senso, come la diffe…
Taste disorders in disease
2016
Among the different sensory systems, gustation is one of the most elaborate. In its sensory task, gustation is helped by interactions with other sensory systems (olfaction, vision, audition, and somatosensory, trigeminal and thermal sensations). It allows the detection and identification of soluble compounds which can be ingested or must be avoided. This function is fundamental to ingestive behavior (energy intake and selection of nutrients) in order to meet physiological needs. Taste is also fundamental to the genesis of hedonic sensations and, therefore, the desire to eat (appetite). The tasting step is also the first stage of the digestion, absorption, and storage of nutrients due to ant…
Colors of Caviar
2012
Colors of Caviar : the star restaurant is a space of artistic representation. The chef in a high-class restaurant appears both as a craftsman who controls recipes and as an artist, fanciful, imaginative, inspired, who has to achieve performances every day. The study of the menus of top restaurants is very informative: vocabulary, language patterns and used rhetoric (metaphors, metonymies, hyperboles, etc.) serve to inform us (very few) on what we will eat and to guarantee new and extraordinary and ephemeral foods. The gastronomic restaurant as a whole is a cultural place: its decor (music, painting, architecture), its rites and rhythms (the salvation of the chef, the parade of servers, the …