Who is in Italy at the dining table, can make all kinds of wrong: Cappuccino after dinner drink, Parmesan cheese on pasta with fish sprinkle or Pizza with pineapple eat. For Italians, the events make for hours about foreigners are funny too – after all, they are the ones who have absorbed the good food, sort of, with mother’s milk.
this also explains, that some time ago some potato chips provided in the Region of Venice for excitement. The Offense: There were Chips with Prosecco-tastes – and that’s on the packaging.
Prosecco is the sparkling wine, whose grapes ripen solely on the gently rolling hills in certain provinces in the Veneto and in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and in the area to be processed.
The protected Name of Prosecco is allowed only on the products, which is also true of Prosecco in there. And in Italy had been large doubts, that in Prosecco Chips brand Pringles really real Prosecco was included. In fact, it was Prosecco-powder.
Minister of agriculture: identity theft
“We can’t tolerate that someone is trespassing on a protected indication of origin,” lamented the President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia. The Italian excellence in terms of food and Drink is not likely to be due to fraud to undermine. Agricultural Minister Teresa Bellanova spoke of “identity theft”.
For politicians in Italy, it belongs to make a name for itself with the protection of the food of a particular Region. The Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte struggled recently in the Emilia-Romagna against the US duties on Parmesan cheese, the former interior Minister Matteo Salvini made a bite in a Sicilian Cannoli and a visit to the island’s popular, and the regional President of Liguria, Italy, Giovanni Toti, like shows with Pesto Genovese, that he wants to have a Unesco heritage site.
do Not “Bolognese”, but “al ragù”
And the mayor of Bologna, Virginio Merola, has started not too long ago, a call to the wrong name “Spaghetti Bolognese” abroad eradicate. The Pasta with meat sauce is not in Italy, after the town in Emilia Romagna, but “al ragù”.
food is one of the most important economic and tourism factors in Italy. “Made in Italy” is considered a seal of quality for food, like the “Made in Germany” for cars. Italians are particularly proud of their food culture. In social media there are Extra pages, on which the Italians about the “sins” of foreigners, funny, not to throw, for example, Pasta in the boiling water, but into the cold. Or to mix fruit with vegetables in salads.
Nowhere else are there so many protected indications of origin
No other EU country has so many food with a protected indication of origin such as Italy. Among the 823 products, wine from the Chianti and ham from Parma as well as lesser-known Champions, such as lentils from Norcia in Umbria, or Basil from Genoa.
“highlights The importance of food culture,” explains Enrico Bonadio, an expert in copyright law at the City University of London. “If you protect the geographical origin, to protect a heritage, an identity. You can’t create a simple wine in Finland, and it Prosecco name.” In the last twelve years the Export of Italian food products had risen by 140 per cent. (sda)
Created: 11.11.2019, 15:08 PM
