[HN Gopher] A Museum in Rome Narrates Italian History Through Co...
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       A Museum in Rome Narrates Italian History Through Cookbooks and
       Kitchenware
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2022-04-20 04:53 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
        
       | SeanLuke wrote:
       | The museum's cookbook collection predictably stops just short of
       | Marcella Hazan. Italy's most influential modern cookbook author
       | is almost unknown in her own country. Even in her hometown of
       | Cesenatico the local hero is Pantani.
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       | Hazan is widely viewed as _the_ person who converted perceptions
       | of Italian food worldwide from 1950s spaghetti-and-meatballs to
       | modern and sophisticated (and mostly northern) Italian cuisine.
       | Stuff like prosciutto, risotto, etc. She is credited for
       | singlehandedly popularizing balsamic vinegar outside of Italy.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcella_Hazan
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       | This is kind of like France having a museum that doesn't include
       | Julia Child because she didn't cater to the French. Only it's
       | worse because Hazan actually _is_ Italian.
        
         | legulere wrote:
         | It's a museum about Italy and not the US after all
        
         | nicolas_t wrote:
         | At least, the has been recognised by the italian government who
         | made her a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian
         | Solidarity.
        
         | mdrzn wrote:
         | Wow, I live like 20 miles away from Cesenatico and have never
         | heard of her in my 30 years. Even googling her name only brings
         | up foreign results, zero italian pages about her in the first
         | two SERP.
        
           | SeanLuke wrote:
           | Where are you, Cesena? Rimini?
           | 
           | It's pretty amazing. A few years back the mayor of Cesenatico
           | put up a commemorative sign outside her former home on the
           | canal. Then a year or two later it was torn down without
           | permission, probably by the owner of the house, and nobody
           | complained or even noticed. IMHO Hazan is easily the most
           | important person, world-wide, to come out of Cesenatico, and
           | yet there's an entire _museum_ dedicated to Pantani. Nobody
           | has heard of her.
        
         | cloudify wrote:
         | What a surprise seeing Marcella mentioned on HN! She was my
         | grandmother cousin but I've never actually met her because she
         | left Italy before I was born. It's a pity that she's virtually
         | unknown in Italy, you will not even find her books in
         | international book stores. My uncle told me once that her son,
         | Giuliano Hazan, is preserving her legacy in Italy with cooking
         | workshops that he holds in Verona once every year.
        
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