“Pellegrino Artusi and the Unification of Italy in the Kitchen” is the title of an exhibition starting on March 5 in Santiago, Chile, which will look at one of the most important figures in the glorious history of Italian cuisine. The event will take place in two different locations, which currently represent the pride of the Italian culinary tradition and its close relationship with Chilean culture: the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Santiago and the town founded by the Italian settlers brought by Captain Pastene (Lumaco, Region IX). The exhibition will also include a number of concurrent events such as conferences, tastings, and screenings of videos and documentaries on Artusi and Italian cuisine and on the culinary and cultural relations between the two countries.
“Pellegrino Artusi and the Unification of Italy in the Kitchen”
The Institute’s website explains: “Just as over 100 years ago Pellegrino Artusi put Italians around the ‘same table’, by outlining a clear common culinary tradition, also today, Italian (and ‘Artusian’) food culture, despite the thousands of kilometres between them, continues to spur unification processes between migrants and natives. Chile is a clear example of this. The exhibition ‘Pellegrino Artusi and the Unification of Italy in the kitchen’, in addition to honouring a great Italian, seeks to stress once again the ‘osmosis’ that allows the Italian and Chilean traditions to intersect, also in the kitchen”.
