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		<title>Food, Inc</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Food, Inc Director: Robert Kenner Release Date: 2009 Genre: Documentary A look behind the scenes of industrialized food production in the US. The film caption reminds us that we will never look at our dinner the same way, and that may be true after seeing this documentary and how it explores where our food [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Title: Food, Inc<br />
Director: Robert Kenner<br />
Release Date: 2009<br />
Genre: Documentary</p>
<p>A look <strong>behind the scenes</strong> of industrialized food production in the US.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The film caption reminds us that <strong>we will never look at our dinner the same way</strong>, and that may be true after seeing this documentary and how it explores <strong>where our food comes from</strong>, how it is grown, who processes it, who&#8217;s <strong>earning</strong> from it and who is <strong>dying</strong> from it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Yet again an underlining demonstration that we can not avoid <strong>being what we eat</strong>, but the interesting point made by the documentary is that most of us have no idea what we are eating and even more alarming, we really have no idea what has been eaten by what we are eating&#8230; <strong>does that make any sense?</strong> I guess we are getting ever more detached from what our food really is, and that would be <strong>plants and animals</strong> lets not forget. Although forgetting is easy especially when we walk though our day lit supermarkets,  filling our trolleys with glass, cardboard and plastic containers covered in <strong>cool</strong>, <strong>fun</strong> and <strong>suggestive</strong> fonts and colours and trusting (more than we would like to admit) the witty <strong>advertising claims</strong>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The documentary exposes how a handful of highly centralized <strong>mega-corporations</strong> rule the American (and this is probably the rest of the world too) <strong>food industry</strong>, which seems to be only interested in producing <strong>faster</strong>, <strong>fatter</strong>, <strong>bigger</strong> and <strong>cheaper</strong>.  The documentary illustrates with interviews and statistics that get straight to the point, how and why this situation is <strong>detrimental to health</strong>, <strong>environment</strong> and even <strong>our very own humanity</strong>. The ugly facts of <strong>worker abuse</strong>, animal <strong>mistreatment</strong>, food <strong>contamination</strong>, and <strong>government collusion are covered up</strong> by a secretive industry that refuses to talk to the filmmakers or let the interiors of their chicken farms, cattle ranches, slaughterhouses, and meatpacking plants be filmed and which are even trying to get laws passed which make documenting and publicly criticizing products and production methods illegal.</p>
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The documentary treats such subjects as <strong>E-Coli outbreaks </strong>and other <strong>food-safety related issues</strong>, and the facts alone may leave you feeling a <strong>little squeamish</strong> with a <strong>prolonged loss of appetite</strong>. The interviews  to farmers and ranchers are incredibly interesting and heart breaking at times, when we learn how they have been <strong>enslaved in debt</strong> and <strong>manipulated juridically</strong> to subdue to the will of huge <strong>companies</strong> and their power <strong>lobbies</strong>. Other subjects covered are the treatment of cows that are <strong>forced to eat corn</strong> instead of grass and all the u<strong>nsustainable consequences</strong> this causes. I could go on and tell you all about it and although you may  already familiar with most of the stories and facts told during the film, <strong>Food, Inc.</strong> with it&#8217;s <strong>witty</strong>, <strong>clear graphics</strong> and i<strong>ronically bright colours</strong> is an incredibly interesting and entertaining  documentary about where our food comes from, I highly recommend seeing it.</p>
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<p><a title="Foodn Inc Website" href="http://www.foodincmovie.com/" target="_blank">Food, Inc Website</a></p>
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		<title>POLENTA per pochi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecilia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dalla cena alle chiacchiere, dalla cucina di casa a quella di un ristorante ho imparato a chiedere e domandare quando per la curiosità il naso mi prude e la lingua mi pizzica. Ecco che cosa scopro sulle mie origini lombarde e sulle acquoline contemporanee. Gli italiani, anzi i &#8220;settentrionali&#8221; sanno che con il mais ci [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Dalla cena alle chiacchiere, dalla cucina di casa a quella di un ristorante ho imparato a chiedere e domandare quando per la curiosità il naso mi prude e la lingua mi pizzica. Ecco che cosa scopro sulle mie <em>origini lombarde</em> e sulle <em>acquoline contemporanee</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="file:///C:/Users/LACECI%7E1/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img src="file:///C:/Users/LACECI%7E1/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Gli italiani, anzi i &#8220;settentrionali&#8221; sanno che con il <strong>mais </strong>ci si fa la <strong>polenta</strong>. Sanno che sono solo loro a mangiarla. Sanno che la <strong>farina gialla</strong> si ottiene dalle <strong>pannocchie</strong>. La ricetta  è elementare, acqua e farina. Il resto lo fanno l&#8217;inverno, le montagne, il camino, la neve&#8230; Infatti non certo a partire solo dai primi due viene servita la fumante pietanza accanto a carni, pesci o verdure.<br />
E&#8217; ciò che evoca che oggi la fa gustare con maggiore entusiasmo, è quello che rappresenta e fa immaginare. All&#8217;interno di ogni pannocchia c&#8217;è racchiuso il territorio lombardo, la Valtellina, il Veneto, l&#8217;arco alpino tutto, allo stesso modo delle <strong>tortillas messicane</strong> uno dei pochi altri prodotti per cui viene utilizzato direttamente il mais.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Perchè oltre a polenta e tortillas c&#8217;è poco altro: i Pop corn, i Corn Flakes e le pannocchie al burro. Per il resto trasformiamo tutto in <strong>olio </strong>per friggere, farina per l&#8217;industria alimentare, combustibile e plastica naturali. Quasi tutto quello che si vede nelle pianure italiane è infatti granoturco ad uso zootecnico, ci si fa <strong>mangime </strong>per animali. Cosa impensabile a raccontarla a qualche antenato dei secoli scorsi che coltivava il granoturco a solo ed esclusivo uso-polenta. Roba da matti pensare di coltivare ettari ed ettari di un cereale e non mangiarlo neanche più.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-417" title="pannocchia" src="http://www.tourdefork.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_0515.jpg" alt="pannocchia" width="450" height="338" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Degli ingredienti della polenta sono rimasti oggi soprattutto quelli evocativi dunque, della farina di una volta neanche l&#8217;ombra. Sono le piante ad essere cambiate, selezioni genetiche hanno permesso negli anni di creare specie sempre più robuste e produttive. Il mais odierno cresce in 8 mesi le file di chicchi si sono moltiplicate, anche 10-11 chicchi per fila. Le pannocchie di oggi sono di un giallo opaco, lunghe 20-30 cm, quelle di un tempo bianche, arancioni, giallo scuro, quasi rosso, anche viola con i chicchi trasparenti, quasi di vetro (non solo in apparenza, se quelli di oggi si sfarinano, ieri si spaccavano).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Curioso scoprire allora che quello della polenta è un retaggio dell&#8217;agricoltura del passato, è un piatto che ricorda il <em>Nord Italia</em> e si lega in filo diretto al <em>Nuovo Mondo</em> da cui arrivò nel &#8217;500. Un salto dagli Azteki e i Maya ai contadini padani e delle valli alpine in un percorso che oggi non è irrimediabilmente perso, ma anzi sembra riaffiorare: antiche specie di granturco vengono ri-piantate, la polenta esce dai confini italiani e dalle tavole di campagna. Si azzardano nuovi abbinamenti, si inventano nuove ricette: la polenta si presta per accompagnare ricette nordiche quanto orientali e perchè no africane o indiane, presenzia sempre più spesso su tavole eleganti e piatti ricercati.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Approfitto quindi della stagione per <em>mangiare </em>polenta, <em>provare </em>ristoranti e <em>ascoltare </em>nuove storie.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Cecilia</strong></p>
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