Il Grillo in Tavola

For us ringing food considered extraneous to the national food culture to an Italian table should be prohibited; you can eat insects if you want exotic food, but promoting a sustainable Mediterranean diet with crickets is absolutely not appropriate. An observation comes naturally: with the myriad of healthy products, our ancient flours that we are rediscovering, these grains without additives that do not induce allergies, this spasmodic cure in search of perfection towards health cannot now find a stumbling block in the introduction to flour of the cricket with respect speaking for the producing countries. Certainly the migratory locusts that invade our fields especially in the south due to the advancing deserts, a consequence of climate change, lead us to reflect. But at the same time we have to fight to safeguard our identity, our biodiversity, research on indigenous products involves our origins, both for work and for the culture that derives from it at the table. NO from us, but the path appears difficult….

Valentina Niccolai