I'll tell you about a book 2023: the meeting with Renata Bracale and her book on the Mediterranean Diet, between innovation and tradition, Tuesday 13 June

I'll tell you about a 2023 book: the meeting with Renata Bracale and her book on the Mediterranean Diet, between innovation and tradition, Tuesday 13 June.

It has always been crowned by science as the food model par excellence due to its proven beneficial health effects. In addition to being an authentic shield against the main chronic pathologies, such as cardiovascular and tumor diseases, the Mediterranean Diet it is a lifestyle that embodies centuries of culture that do not just concern food, but everything that revolves around it. Starting from the territory, passing through the areas of food preservation and processing, without forgetting the spirit of conviviality and sharing which are essential parts of a healthy Mediterranean lifestyle.

But the Mediterranean Diet is also about time spent in the kitchen. Forget about ready meals to heat in the microwave, or frozen vegetables to sauté in a pan. Tradition requires time, passion and care. Clearly we cannot ignore a society that not only has little time, but also has increasing difficulty in dedicating itself to cooking. Renata Bracale, nutritional biologist and associate professor of human nutrition atUniversity of Molise, as well as a well-known face of many television programs on health and well-being, will talk about it as part of the initiative LIBRINTABLE– convivial meetings between books and flavors of I'll tell you about a 2023 book, the permanent laboratory on reading and narration promoted and created by the Municipality of Campobasso and the Italian Readers' Union, with the artistic and organizational direction of Brunella Santoli and the patronage of the Province of Campobasso.

His My Mediterranean cuisine - Recipes and secrets between innovation and tradition, is a rereading of the Mediterranean recipes that come from the Neapolitan tradition, especially from the culinary customs of this Southern family, the Bracale, as told in effective storytelling. By grandmother Renata, godmother of the original recipes, this family lexicon is revisited and modified by her nutritionist granddaughter to follow and present, to lovers of good food, a more correct model from a nutritional point of view, which can be brought to the table every day.

Un precious recipe book, therefore, which without giving up traditions has care and attention for everyone: in fact, they range from recipes based on milk and derivatives, meat, fish, gluten free, lactose free and ending with some vegan recipes. The meeting with the author is scheduled Tuesday 13 June 18.30 hours in the restaurant "Zi' Concetta's Cave"In via Larino in Campobasso. The researchers Giovanni de Gaetano and Marialaura Bonaccio will talk to her. Followed by tastings of strictly Mediterranean cuisine to be enjoyed together. To participate in the LIBRINTAVOLA meeting, booking is required by contacting info@unionelettoritaliani.it.

The next appointment with I'll tell you a book is with Michela Monferrini, that Friday June 16, At 18.30 in a Samnite Circle of Campobasso, will present On the Alba side, a novel dedicated to Alba de Céspedes. She is an Italian writer, poet and partisan, she has spent a life poised between continents and revolutions, dedicating herself to what she felt destined for since she was a child: writing, writing, writing. She lived through the twentieth century personally, lending her voice to the Resistance and her heart to men who could not fully understand her. Alba de Céspedes here becomes the protagonist of a novel which is also a reflection on the meaning of writing as the legacy of a life.