Saturday, January 26, 2008

Slow Down, Europe...

As the EU seeks to alter the economic and political structure of Europe, so too will it try to press the landscape into its image. Hopefully it won't take the culinary regionalisms with it. Or will it?

AI recently commented on how he hopes Romanian artisan cheese doesn't suffer the same fate that the American beer industry did, where it took over 50 years for the right American brewmasters to bring it back on par with English, Czech, and German suds.

This new Italia university hopes to counter that dramatic kind of change in the area of food, the world over. They want to do this by cultivating an appreciation for culinary regionalism. Sounds good to me.

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