• “The Carbonara Case” presented at the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium (29 May 2024)

On May 29th I presented my research “The Carbonara Case: Italian Food and the Race to Conquer Consumers' Memories” at the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, one of the most important forums in the field of food studies in Europe. It was the best choice: the peer-reviewed...
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• Wind Tunneling the Farm-to-Fork Strategy

Yesterday, I presented the European Farm-to-Fork Strategy and the CAP 2023-27 to a group of students in Leadership and Agriculture from Mississippi State University visiting Tuscany for the Spring Break, under the guidance of Prof. Jessica C. Benson. We engaged in a...
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• Origin, quality and reputation of food products

November 11, 2016. I am in Istanbul, as a speaker and guest at a Start Up Weekend Food & Tech organized by my friend Patrick Bosteels. My subject is Quality, Reputation and Origin of food products and my audience is made of young Turkish entrepreneurs. I start...
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• The World after Covid-19 (Part 3)

The Future of Food: Megatrend versus Covid-19 After discussing briefly the visions of two influent thinkers (a futurologist and an historian) and then using a mind map to draw a scenario based on our available knowledge, I am now going to present here another tool...

• Food and the evolution of life

Jonathan Silvertown Dinner with Darwin Chicago, 2017 This is a book pertaining to the new class of gastro-biology. The Author takes us in a journey through evolution: of mankind, from vegetarian apes to omnivorous bipeds; of animals and plants which we decided to...

• The future is a thorny issue

Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus London 2015 During my first visit to Israel in the spring of 2015, I desperately wanted to meet with Prof. Harari after reading his Sapiens. From Animals into God: A Brief History of Humankind and falling in love with this powerful,...