Food is responsibility, food is culture.
Chiara Appendino, mayor of Turin, e
Antonella Paris, Councilor for Culture and Tourism of the Piedmont Region, opened the Festival morning with a comprehensive overview of current and future food policies of the public administration. "Since March 2016 - recalled Appendino - the right to food has entered the statute of Turin, to a healthy, sustainable food, accessible and also acceptable to all from a religious cultural point of view. Over the years, beyond political affiliations, the municipal administration has always been committed on this front: from the valorisation of agriculture to the promotion of food and wine, from school canteens to beneficial ones, from urban gardens to education food, up to international food policies ”. A further step towards an international perspective will be, as announced by the Mayor, the imminent conclusion of the
Turin Urban Food Policy Pact, a pact between mayors to reduce food waste and promote food sustainability. "We are ready to face the right to food as a community, which does not only mean quantity and quality, but above all
responsibility"Antonella Paris spoke of food as an engine for the development of tourism, but above all of cultural territory. "Piedmont's supremacy in terms of food and wine is not simply a matter of taste: we are not competing with other regional cuisines, it is a question of cultural approach. Piedmont has been able to develop one around the theme of food
cultural perspective, a vision of the world, the defense of an important tradition and material knowledge, which cannot be reduced to the simple tourist impact on the territory. Tourism naturally benefits, but it must be sustainable tourism, which does not destroy the territory and maintain its authenticity ".
