(November 29, 2016) It closed in the name of “supportive diplomacy” (#supportivediplomacy, #diplomaziasolidale the hashtags launched on the social networks of the Italian Embassy in Khartoum) the first week of the Italian cuisine in Sudan. The guest of honor, the Neapolitan chef Flavia Pantaleo, for twenty years dedicated to teaching and promoting Italian and regional cuisine in Italy and worldwide, author of “The Book of Pies and Timbales” (Bonanno Editore, 2016) , who works between Rome and Catania with associations and culinary hub of the foreground as Homefood, CuochePerCaso, MediterraneumLab, VillinoVolterra, and a special award from the New York Times in 2015. “the priority was to meet the needs and expectations of common Sudanese, of local businessmen, institutions, over a congenial ground for inter-cultural synthesis between Italy and Sudan”, explained the Italian Ambassador in Sudan Fabrizio Lobasso. This is why the Embassy organized the most of the offer of culinary Italian spirit to generate maximum response from the public, press and rating among the hundreds of people who flocked to the six activities organized during the week. In detail: free cooking workshop for local chefs and restaurateurs to discover how to prepare a full Italian menu. cooking seminars for the international community in Khartoum to do fundraising for the local institute for the deaf and mute. Training for the inmates of the women’s prison in Omdurman, the discovery of a new profession (making bread, produce tea biscuits) to be used for future once the sentence is served. Proposal Italian menu in about 10 of the most successful restaurants in Khartoum. Taking advantage of the Agency’s program of Italian Cooperation and Development in Khartoum (AICS) and the project “Protection and promotion of the rights of orphaned children with disabilities in the city of Khartoum”, it was also given space to the participation of four orphan living with semi-disabilities to several cooking seminars, as the first psychosocial outsourcing for therapeutic purposes outside of corrective supervision. The experiment will be repeated in other capacities in the future. “From intercultural diplomacy with joint diplomacy, the line that outlines the Sudanese Italian common path on an equal basis is the same – added the Ambassador Lobasso -. A role, the Italian, of donor of a vision beyond the walls, to a Sudanese tomorrow full of possibilities: a truly italian pat on the shoulder of those who, as ordinary people, look at our country with immense appreciation and gratitude “. (Red)
Italian cuisine, in Sudan a week in the name of supportive diplomacy
