ITALIAN UNITY

Italy was made also in a kitchen, between a pasta dish and  citrus juice. This is documented by the tasty telegrams sent by Camillo Benso,  Cavour Cont: “the oranges are on our table and we are going to eat them. We have to wait for the maccheroni because they are not cooked yet” so he wrote in July 1860, referring to Sicily already occupied by Garibaldi's men that were moving to the continent. The waiting goes on a month, until 7^th September, when Garibaldi enters Naples victoriously. “The maccheroni are ready and we  will eat them” Cavour tells to Piedmontese ambassador in Paris. Unity is already served and from Neapolitan flag, the maccheroni, will become the national symbol. Different  gastronomy scholars talk about the importance of cooking in the construction of our Italian spirit. An open and democratic model, coming from different traditions and able to incorporate new elements because Italy is a country that can digest diversity to transform it into its typical nature (it happened with a kind of pasta having a long form imported during the Middle Ages from Muslim culture and than it was  mixed with tomato and chili)

1.            According to Cavour's telegrams maccheroni were

a)     Garibaldi's men that were moving to the continent from Sicily

b)    Bourbon’s army that was fighting

c)     French army

d)    Austria army in the north of Italy

2.            Maccheroni  became

a)     The symbol of Sicily

b)    The symbol of  Italian independence from Austria

c)     the symbol of Italy Unity

d)    the symbol of Naples kingdom

3.            Cooking had

a)     a lot of importance in the construction of  Italian spirit

b)    no importance in the construction of  Italian spirit

c)     a lot of importance in the construction of  religious spirit

d)    no importance in the construction of religion spirit

Vittorio Emanuele II - First king of Italy