The Taste of a Lifetime

Food is a journey, through memory and invention. It is an undertaking, involving cultivation, breeding and preparation. It is an act of care and love, and thus a responsibility. And it is a pleasure, for the senses and the imagination, for the body and soul. And all of this has always deserved a story. A story that, both in tradition and, fortunately, still today, takes shape around a laid table. That’s why it makes sense to keep writing about food and enjoy reading about it. This is what we find in the pages of Iaia Caputo’s Il gusto di una vita, Damiani Editore, an authentic “family lexicon” of childhood memories (food as a discovery of the complexities of what is beautiful and good, but also of what is not) and of social relationships (food choices during adolescence, going against family habits), group rituals (Sunday lunch) and the very private search for intimacy (food as a comforter, for seduction, as a response to desire). Il gusto di una vita Iaia Caputo Enrico Damiani, 2021