ITA 394 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Italian Unification, French Cuisine
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The valley between the alps and the spine is very fertile. Keep a map of the 20 regions of the republic of. The southern regions have a slightly different historical development. Why has southern italy not experienced the same. Became a unified political unit in 1861 (reference the same year that the us civil war began) Italian cuisine= a network of exchanges between different local and regional cultures. The italian way of eating = a wide variety of vegetables. In italian culture, veggies have status and prestige. The translation from a predominantly agricultural society to an industrialized one after world war i: il boom economico . Il campanilsmo (derives from italian word for bell tower). A sense of pride in ones local culture. Italians in medieval ages were sometimes suspicious of new foods that were introduced into their culture. The eggplant was given the italian name meaning unsound apple".
