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In this age of globalization, an Italian city is doing everything to keep their food tradition.
Some groups do not approve of this even if Italy’s Agriculture Minister supports the foreign food ban.
http://www.english-online.at/culture/italy-foreign-food-ban/italian-city-bans-foreign-food.htm
Discussion Questions:
- What do you think about banning foreign food in a city?
- Is this possible in the city where you live in? Why or why not?
- Do you like foreign food? Why or why not?
- Are there many foreign restaurants in your city? Which one is your favourite and why?
- How can cities and regions preserve their food traditions?
22 replies on “Italian City Bans Foreign Food”
1. What do you think about banning foreign food in a city?
I think banning any kind of food is a big mistake, but you can encourage the consumption of local foods, for example, by paying producers and making adds media
2. Is this possible in the city where you live in? Why or why not?
In the city where I live, it has a lot of foreign people and do it will not be like people
3. Do you like foreign food? Why or why not?
I like all foods but normally I eat traditional food from where I live, the firs reason is I think mediterranean food is one of the best of world, but other cultures has very good foods and I like then so
4. Are there many foreign restaurants in your city? Which one is your favourite and why?
Yes, in my city we have a lot of foreign restaurants and my favorite is an Italian where they make thes best pizza where I eat never.
5. How can cities and regions preserve their food traditions?
Encouraging its consumption from schools for the little ones to centers for the elderly.
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1. What do you think about banning foreign food in a city?
I think that this is an extrem law.
I’m agree on preserving small local businesses, but in my opinión, banning foreign food would be crazy. I love food and tasting food from different cultures and I think that having the chance to do it where you live is great.
2. Is this posible in the city where you live in? Why or why not?
I don’t think so. In general, Spain is known for its rich culinary traditions, but it is also a country that embraces a wide variety of international cuisines due to tourism and globalization. Spanish cities often have diverse dining options, including restaurants serving food from differents parts of the world.
3. Do you like foreign food? Why or why not?
I love foreign food because, as I have said before, I love food and tasting food from different cultures.
4. Are there many foreign restaurants in your city? Which one is your favourite and why?
I live in a small town where there isn’t much variety of restaurants beyond typical Spanish food restaurants and some pizza and kebab restaurants. I like italian food very much but there isn’t any real italian restaurant where I live.
5. How can cities and regions preserve their food traditions?
I think that cities and regions can take several steps to preserve their food traditions and culinary heritage as, for example: culinary education, food festivals and events, support for traditional restaurants, local food markets, tourism initiatives and so on.
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1. What do you think of not allowing foreign food in a city?
It’s a extreme law. I don’t think it’s possible.
2. Are there many foreign restaurants in your city? Which one is your favourite?
Yes, there are many foreign restaurants. My foavourites are Chinese restaurants because I love Chinese food.
3. How can cities and regions preserve their food traditions?
The best way is to pass recipes from parent to children.
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1. What do you think of not allowing foreign food in a city?
I don’t think that foreign food must be forbidden in a city, I think that local food must be promotionned.
2. Are there many foreign restaurants in your city? Which one is your favourite?
Yes, there are many foreign restaurants in my city, Italians, Chinese, Turkish, … restaurants. My favourite is a Italian restaurant because I like pizzas very much.
3. How can cities and regions preserve their food traditions?
I think that cities can preserve their food traditions doing public events with the local administration support, tasting events, …
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1. What do you think of not allowing foreign food in a city?
I am not agree about that. I agree by doing some activities to preserve the local food (markets, …) , but I do not see avoiding the foreign food, as it is good for everyone to have a wide range of possibilities.
2. Are there many foreign restaurants in your city? Which one is your favourite? Yes, there are. I enjoy a lot asian food and my favourite restaurant is a japanish , where I can eat sushi but also other japanish specialites.
3. How can cities and regions preserve their food traditions? They can promote markets with local food, and some other activities as cooking exhibitions or courses. Also, promote local food at school’s cantine.
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What do you think of not allowing foreign food in a city?
I think it’s a little difficult to ban something like that, because the market is free in Europe, It’s based on demand and offer, and the possibilities you have in order to open a business, so… I’m not sure this prohibition is an legal opcion.
Are there many foreign restaurants in your city? Which one is your favourite?
Yes, there are many foreign restaurants in Madrid, of all difficult cultures. If you want to prove something different, it’s sure that you would can to find and prove it.
My favourite foreign food and restaurants, maybe are Italian and Indian. But I sometimes go to Colombian restaurants, turkey, etc. Although I normally go to Spanish restaurants and healthy restaurants, that maybe they can offer you new dishes and you tastes different things in a good company, a good looking place, good music… I look for a good experience and not maybe so many to prove foreign food.
How can cities and regions preserve their food traditions?
I think in a big city, like Madrid, where there are many foreign people, is normal that you can found different areas with different restaurants and food. But, for example, in smaller cities and villages, very typical Spanish places, the original restaurants and food is the normal thing. It not normal to find a chinise restaurants in a typical villages where people go there to do Spanish tourism. This could go against the tourim business of the village. The normal thing is that all business go around the idea of potencial the tourism business of the village. And around food, you can find the typical meets, cheese, wine, or others things, that the people want to try and enjoy.
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I think that banning food from other cultures in a historic center of a city may be understandable as a Chinese restaurant in the old town of Rome for example doesn’t fit in very well. However, it would be different if they banned it in an entire city, which could be considered a racist act. Moreover, as it says in the text, many of the ingredients used in Italian traditional foods may come from another country.
In my city there are many foreign food restaurants, especially Turkish, Japanese, Chinese and Italian. I live in a very large and multicultural city so it’s common to see food stalls from other countries. My favorite food is Japanese, although I also like Italian food very much.
Another thing that could be done to preserve traditional food would be to organize specific events from time to time.
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1. What do you think of not allowing foreign food in a city?
I think that you have to be insane to believe that this mesure would bring benefits to the city.
2. Are there many foreign restaurants in your city? Which one is your favourite? There are to many foreign restaurants in my city, my favourite is called Miss sushi, japanness food.
3. How can cities and regions preserve their food traditions?
I believe that cities can preserve their food traditions by doing some festivals or making contests about tipical food.
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1. What do you think of not allowing foreign food in a city?
Well I Don’t quite agree I think that everyone have a place in a city but if I think it’s good that traditional food is respected. In Madrid there are everything the foods and restaurants of everything countries and that is very good but I prefer the traditional food.
2. Are there many foreign restaurants in your city? Which one is your favourite?
My City have restaurants from all the countries of the world. People from all over the world come to Madrid and to likes go to restaurants where they find foods of their countries even although also they like the Spanish food.
I have a many favorites, I like the food Japanese, Italian, Mexican the argentine meat but the one I like the most is the Spanish
3.How can cities and regions preserve their food traditions?
I think that have that do a good job the marketing and sold their traditions for all world for what this It also serves for tourists to come
In Spain there is a fair very important as is Fitur where the Spanish traditions in food and tourism are shown to the whole world
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I think is a bad idea because today is impossible stop globalization.
The citizens are who decide what kind of foods would eat.
In my little village there are a libanes restaurant. When we go there we eat the same foods that here but they are prepared of other maner
Depends of the moment we go to typical restaurant or a new. We usually go to libanes restaurant at weekend. It is near my home.
Thinking that the citizens are the responsability to preserve their food traditions, I think it is at home with the family, where they learn a typical foods. But anyway is good to introduce a new foods because theirs typical foods were new years ago. And more with the new foods we augment our possibility of healthy foods
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Hi, in my opinion I think that there should be a variety of foreign food in the big cities but I am in favor of not massify the offer and respect the traditional food of the zone, especially in the villages.
Yes, there are a lot of restaurants of foreign food, my favorite is any sushi.
I think we should organize fairs to continue our traditions and tipycal dishes and make them know to children and at the same time be an engine to atractt tourists.
1 in my opinion it does not seen right to me. Since there are may foreight foods that are very good and i think that everyone should try the specialty of each country, city..
2 I live in the center of Madrid, and there are many restaurants, restaurants of all kinds, chinese, italian mcdonal, burguer king…hindi food, spanish food, especially typical Madrid food, squid sandwich, this incredible is the best sandwich in the world.
My favorite place in Madrid. It`s called ” El viaajero” (the traveler). Its spanish food, and it has a lovely terrace in the middle of the latina neigthborhood. its very cheap and very beautifil
3. In my opinion it is always good hot to lose the customs of a city, in this case they are food normally you know a city for something typical here. It s good to remember a city for that. Its good do not miss the habbit
What cities should do, it would be to not lose traditions and always have typical food in the restauants the traditions can not be lost