Italian Food History
The 1891 cookbook by Pellegrino Artusi that helped unify Italy through food.
What is Science in the Kitchen?
In 19th century Italy, what food did most poor Italians survive off of?
What is bread?
In An American in Rome, after trying to eat like an American, Nando ends up eating what classic Italian food?
What is spaghetti?
What is the main food being sold in Pizza on Credit?
What is pizza?
Post-Unification, Italians tried to create national unity through what daily activities?
What is cooking and eating?
This dish, once considered poor people’s street food in Naples, later became famous worldwide.
What is pizza?
Which city, described in Matilde Serao's essay What Do They Eat?, experienced widespread hunger?
What is Naples?
In An American in Rome, Nando tries to act like he’s from this foreign country.
What is the United States?
In De Sica's Pizza on Credit, Sofia and Rosa sell pizza using this unique type of payment method.
What is credit?
In Pellegrino Artusi's Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well, Artusi encourages Italians to eat with this quality (not too much, not too little).
What is moderation?
What is the term that describes how southern foods like pizza and pasta became symbols of the entire nation?
What is Southernization?
Serao called Naples “the bowels of the city” to show that it suffered from what?
What is hunger?
Pellegrino Artusi believed cooking at home could teach what national value?
What is civic virtue?
In An American in Rome, the spaghetti scene makes fun of this kind of postwar cultural influence.
What is Americanization?
When southern foods became fashionable, poverty was transformed into what emotion?
What is pride?
Which author studied how Italy’s population grew faster than its capacity to feed itself?
Who is Massimo Montanari?
In Pizza on Credit, how does Sofia lose her wedding ring?
What is by dropping it in pizza crust?
According to La Cecla, "authentic Italian food" represents what kind of cultural act?
What is a performance?
Both An American in Rome and Pizza on Credit use food to show that being Italian means holding on to what?
What is cultural identity?
According to La Cecla, Italian food is marketed globally through what nostalgic ideal?
What is “Made in Italy”?
Artusi taught that health depends on two things: temperance and what?
What is exercise?
De Sica's film and Serao's story both show that even through poverty, humans can still have this quality.
What is dignity?
This word describes how migrants abroad changed simple Italian food into rich, abundant dishes.
What is reinvention?
In both films, food represents more than just eating. It symbolizes what kind of emotional value?
What is belonging?
The overall story of Italian food goes from hunger to what positive idea?
What is cultural pride?