Delizia! Quotes

“Al contadino non gli far sapere, quanto sia buono il cacio colle pere’ –”
― John Dickie, Delizia!

“We produce enough food for 12 billion living souls, and there are only 6 billion 300 thousand of us on earth. Eight hundred million people suffer from malnutrition and hunger; one billion 700 million suffer from obesity. Madness! It is madness to continue asking more from the earth. Plundering resources and obeying the logic that says all consumption must be fast, abundant and wasteful: it’s all reaching the end of the line. The end of the line…. What isn’t made clear is just how complicit we are. Just how responsible as individual consumers in the so-called developed world…. We are complicit, we are involved. So you, the peasants of the so-called developing world, you have to show us the way. The way to an economy that can make consumption and agriculture local once more….”
― John Dickie, Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food