{"id":7439,"date":"2024-02-06T22:31:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T03:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:42:34","slug":"the-invention-of-tradition-how-italian-cuisine-has-progressed-by-appealing-to-tradition-and-thats-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/the-invention-of-tradition-how-italian-cuisine-has-progressed-by-appealing-to-tradition-and-thats-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invention Of Tradition: How Italian Cuisine Has Progressed By Appealing To Tradition, And That&#8217;s Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b64c\">Financial Times<\/a> \u2013&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>Parma is quiet at night. The man sitting opposite me is paranoid someone will overhear our conversation. \u201cThey hate me here,\u201d he explains in a hushed voice. He checks behind him, but the only other person in the osteria is a waitress who has had nothing to do since serving us our osso buco bottoncini. The aroma of roasted bone marrow wafts up from the table. Amy Winehouse\u2019s cover of \u201cValerie\u201d plays on a faraway radio.<\/p><p>\u201cCan I badmouth them?\u201d he asks. I tell him he can. After all, he hasn\u2019t been invited here to expose corporate fraud. He has come to tell me the truth about parmesan cheese.<\/p><p>The man I\u2019m dining with is Alberto Grandi, Marxist academic, reluctant podcast celebrity and judge at this year\u2019s Tiramisu World Cup in Treviso. (\u201cI wouldn\u2019t miss it, even if I had dinner plans with the Pope\u201d.) Grandi has dedicated his career to debunking the myths around Italian food; this is the first time he\u2019s spoken to the foreign press. When his 2018 book, Denominazione di origine inventata (Invented Designation of Origin), started racking up sales in Italy, his friend Daniele Soffiati suggested they record a spin-off podcast.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VDARE-fooditalian.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7440\" width=\"841\" height=\"482\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/financial-times-the-invention-of-tradition-how-italian-cuisine-has-progressed-by-appealing-to-tradition-and-that-s-bad\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man I\u2019m dining with is Alberto Grandi, Marxist academic, reluctant podcast celebrity and judge at this year\u2019s Tiramisu World Cup in Treviso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1807,710,1809],"class_list":{"0":"post-7439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-italian","9":"tag-pasta","10":"tag-tradition"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/VDARE-fooditalian.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}