S11 Ep39: Kilometre 0 - Imbroglio! The Big Italian Food Lie
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🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In recent years, it’s been noticeable for journalists on the race that the Giro has leaned further into the notion of Italy as a sort promised land of the finest food and wine on the planet – no longer just ‘the hardest race in the most beautiful place’, per the sales pitch, but also the one where you’ll eat the best meals.
Italian recipes are genuine, humble in origin but luxurious in taste – and also ancient. So at least we’re always told. And yet recently one professor in Italy, Alberto Grandi of the University of Parma, hit the headlines all over the world and caused outrage at home by claiming that a lot of it was lies, mythology, either a misremembering of the past or a deliberate attempt to distort the truth.
In this episode of KM0, Daniel Friebe speaks to, among others, Grandi and John Dickie, the author an acclaimed history of Italian food, Delizia!, to find out what Grandi has claimed and whether, indeed, we’ll ever look at pizza, pasta and cappuccino in the same way again.
In addition to this episode, we’ll also post Daniel’s full interview with Alberto Grandi (with subtitles) on the podcast’s YouTube channel.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Kilometer Zero by the Scycling Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | It's a very good experience. |
| 0:33.0 | There's the Russian, and it's good that you don't have to go to the Russian. |
| 0:39.0 | It's a good experience. |
| 0:42.0 | It's a bit... |
| 0:43.0 | It's a bit... |
| 0:45.0 | It's a story. |
| 0:46.0 | It's a story of the Russian. |
| 0:47.0 | Brian, what you got there? |
| 0:48.0 | Well, everything is local, usually, and that's what we like about the jury as well. |
| 0:54.0 | I had a Tata of... |
| 0:57.0 | Local, I think, was Vitello, so Ville from the area with truffles. |
| 1:04.0 | There was a sign outside the door that this is one of the places to go and eat local truffles. |
| 1:10.0 | It had a combination of various citrus foods to freshen it up. |
| 1:17.0 | That was quite pleasant, but still heavy as relatively raw meat will always be. |
| 1:22.0 | We had a lovely summary of the gastronomic... |
| 1:31.0 | ...like a live-eland, a traditional restaurant on White Table Cloth tonight. |
| 1:36.0 | We were at the bottom. |
| 1:37.0 | Very elegant, please. |
| 1:39.0 | Very elegant. |
| 1:40.0 | We were at the bottom of the Client of Blockhouse. |
| 1:43.0 | We just heard... |
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