The main infer for the popularity of Italian food is probably its taste that pleases all cultures. Someone else one could be the quality of its ingredients. A good Italian dish depends directly on the freshness and genuinity of its ingredients. While the gift times, it is prominent to keep quality standards to avoid a quality loss while looking for convenience in international markets.
Quality Brands
Food And Drink
To safe the originality of some typical products and processes, the European Union created the quality brands Pdo (Protected designation of origin) and Pgi (Protected Geographical Indication). The Pdo protects both the origin of the raw material and the typical yield process. The Pgi protects the typical process, allowing the raw material to come from other parts.
The weak ring is the low knowledge population have about these brands. They are created to look after the typical products, benefiting the customers, as they distinguish the real typical products from the tasteless ones that are maybe sold as an equal quality product. Some researches showed that the whole of population who knows about these brands is still a minor part of the customers.
The most known example regards the parmesan cheese. Most of the customers know parmesan as a type of Italian cheese. How many of these customers know about the sentence from European Union stating that Parmesan is the cheese produced in a thought about region of Italy, under the rules of Parmigiano Reggiano consortium? Only this cheese can be called Parmigiano or parmesan. The other ones, produced all nearby the world (this sentence regarded a German cheese) cannot use this name. If they do so, they are doing it unproperly.
Typical food quality and Tourism
This example shows the importance of preserving the food culture. Otherwise, in a few years, in this globalization environment, we were going to eat the same things everywhere, losing this prominent culture factor that is made of typical processes and products.
When we travel, we do not go visiting museums or monuments only... Each place carries its culture also about food.
Studies show that the whole of tourists that consider the food as an prominent factor while selecting a destination is growing. A relevant whole wants to experience it visiting wineries, agritourist sites and "touching with hand" the process of producing typical products. Often also buying local products to take home part of that experience lived in that exact territory.
Hunger and quality
Quality is for comfortable people. It should not be like this, but it is. population is able to look for quality when is not hungry. Talk about quality brands and typical products has sense when population is already replete, and have the possibilities to choose. This fact doesn't mean quality shoudn't be gift in every product, but it means that look for a special extra virgin olive oil has sense for someone who already uses and know what an extra virgin olive oil is.
This may be a risk for poor civilizations that may loose their typical process while looking for economy food. They may buy from the surface more favorable food rather than evaluating their own typical processes, that may cost more and give less harvest.
Quantity x quality
The process of obtaining smaller harvests began with a huge yield of butter in the 70's, that was storaged in European warehouses. In a world where there is still population who die for hunger, such economic measure to avoid the prices decrease isn't correct. So, what should be done to avoid this inconvenient qoute (too much food stored)? produce less! The biologic products were born then to fulfill this need: smaller harvests using less chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
The process prolonged and population began to consideration that "less is better". Typical products with small outputs began to be thought about specialties. If a kind of olive tree gives less harvest, their stock is a niche product.
But how a tasteless buyer can consideration this difference? straight through the quality brands. It's a remarkable tool for quality food lovers. A unique stock has no need of a quality brand. Some special brands of balsamic vinegar are sold by more than 2000 Us dollars per litre. These are unique products by themselves, as a Ferrari is between machines. But about the good products that can be confused with similar in appearance, the quality brand is indispensable and allows the gourmets to buy and enjoy special food that continue to be produced as they used to be, respecting the local traditions and allowing us to live in a global world that keep the differences cultures need to keep the history alive.
Italian Food and potential
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