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Darrera modificació: 2022-12-19
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Maraschi, Andrea, "The Seed of Hope: Acorns from Famine Food to Delicacy in European History", dins: McWilliams, Mark, Seeds: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2018, London, Prospect Books, 2019, pp. 177-185.
- Resum
- Acorns have enjoyed much success in the past and the present, from America to the Far East. Their history on the tables of Europeans, however, seems to have been characterized by many lows and very few highs. Traditionally associated by Greeks and Romans with utopian bucolic societies which predated the rise of Western civilizations, they ended up embodying the negative attributes of archaic primitiveness: barbarism, famine, emergency. Medieval sources are incredibly reticent, and mention acorns either as a food for pigs, or (when ground into flour to make bread) as an alternative to more desirable flours. Their status suddenly improved in the sixteenth century, when they timidly appeared on fundamental cookery books intended for the elite, only to get worse in conjunction with the success of coffee in Europe (to which acorn coffee represented a well-known alternative). In the present days, though, the rediscovery of traditional and local cuisine (especially in Italy) has elevated their status once again.
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