RIYADH: The Embassy of Italy in Riyadh marked the fifth version of the Globe 7 days of Italian Delicacies by hosting an on the net roundtable dialogue of the cultural value of foods and culinary traditions.
The event, held on Dec. 9 in collaboration with the Potential Food Institute, was titled “Saudi Arabia and Italy: A Journey Concerning Foods and Society.” The contributors included Italian and Saudi industry experts and pros who talked about progressive techniques in which people today can be inspired to rediscover and express their cultural heritage and identification, endorse healthful diets and lifestyles, and secure and build the agricultural and food sectors.
There was also a unique target on the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization including the Mediterranean diet program to its record of intangible entire world cultural heritage. An outstanding case in point of the cultural benefit of foodstuff and culinary traditions, the Mediterranean diet plan encompasses much more than simply just certain foodstuff or ingredients — it also consists of a huge array of capabilities, expertise, procedures and traditions, from respect for the land and biodiversity to the way the foodstuff is made, eaten and shared at the table.
The event was opened by Roberto Cantone, Italy’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and chaired by Sara Roversi, the president and founder of the Long term Food Institute.
“The Italian Cuisine 7 days enables us to showcase Italian cuisine around the world,” explained Cantone. “But it also offers the amazing opportunity to have interaction in a vast-ranging conversation about meals, to examine what we try to eat and how we eat it, the way we generate and eat food and how it impacts our nicely staying, our communities, our economies and our world.
“These issues are at the middle of the global agenda and Italy performs an active role in endorsing and increasing awareness about them — which includes inside the framework of our G20 Presidency, which we took in excess of from Saudi Arabia on Dec. 1.”
Roversi stated: “Future Food stuff Institute is very pleased to cooperate with the Italian Embassy in Riyadh to bring Italian ideal practices and innovative business enterprise cases, as well as to boost our widespread cultural heritage.
“We strongly believe that that community and non-public cooperation, mixed with a multilateral strategy, can make the difference in reaching the Sustainable Growth Plans of (the UN’s) Agenda 2030 and building flourishing world-wide societies. In truth ‘People, World, Prosperity’ (the 3 mentioned priorities of the Italian presidency of the G20) have been the epicenter of our dialogues.
“This roundtable represents a critical bridge for partnership progress and cultural exchange in between Italy and Saudi Arabia.”
The primary speakers at the occasion provided Mayada Badr, CEO of the Culinary Arts Commission at the Saudi Ministry of Tradition Elisabetta Moro, professor of cultural anthropology at the Suor Orsola Benincasa College of Naples and co-director of the Digital Museum of the Mediterranean Diet regime and Cesare Mazzetti, president of Fondazione Qualivita, which encourages and protects the uniqueness of food products and solutions.