Round trip, from outside to inside and back
The act of eating is a fundamental aspect of animal species, eating to nourish oneself, to sustain oneself, not to get sick or to cure oneself.
Eating is a necessity, a primary need to satisfy physical and mental needs, to eat, to introduce fundamental nutrients useful for sustaining oneself and to satisfy hunger or the more or less real perception one has of it.
Pleasure understood as satisfaction and emotional enjoyment until the mid-twentieth century involved two senses, sight and hearing useful for getting excited in front of the visual and musical arts while the sense of taste was downgraded to a mere sense useful for sustenance.
The movements and thoughts to evolve taste into a sense of pleasure and enjoyment have been recorded since the mid-sixteenth century, but the dominant thought to relocate the sense of taste from the mere act useful for satisfying nutritional needs to a sense of pleasure and enjoyment takes more than 4 centuries.
Certainly the trend undergoes a real acceleration in Brillat Savarin with “The physiology of taste”.
Taste therefore takes on an innovative value over time, transforming itself from an instinctive gesture or eating to a cultural gesture that flows into art.
The culinary art as the pursuit of pleasure by drawing enjoyment from what we eat.
The repositioning of taste understood as pleasure and therefore enjoyment is the first degree of transformation, because in reality food/food, i.e. more foods combined with science, knowledge and technique, becomes an engaging and passionate multisensory stimulation.
We eat with smell, sight, taste, touch and hearing, so here is the complete maturity of the satisfaction of a primary need that is enriched with pleasure.
The relationship with food for men and women is rarely experienced as a reserved and intimate act, indeed one of the most engaging symbolic traits is precisely the social sharing of food, using the table as a tool of union.
Sociality, sharing, comparison, food is a pillar of culture, and gastronomic culture always shows what you are and what you have with veiled elegance and sincerity.
