Cuocere il cibo, cuocere la legna. Contaminazione tra pratiche di cottura della legna e pratiche di cottura alimentare

"Cooking wood" captures the essence of the work of those vho produce charcoal. Little technical knowledge goes into this expression that is so rich in meaning and the same time so descriptive of the craft. In contrast to the blacksmith and, even more, to the potter critical figures in the...

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Published in:La Ricerca folklorica 1994-10 (30), p.33-37
Main Author: Rosati, Claudio
Format: Article
Language:Italian
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Summary:"Cooking wood" captures the essence of the work of those vho produce charcoal. Little technical knowledge goes into this expression that is so rich in meaning and the same time so descriptive of the craft. In contrast to the blacksmith and, even more, to the potter critical figures in the acculturation of fire, the charcoal maker has to deal intuitively with energy that works slowly upon the material. A working Knowledge of fire is thus indispensable to define an incomparable cooking technique. Manufacturing fire and cooking fire are both found and confused in the woods where man lives and cooks both wood and food. The article investigates how the two usages differ and influence each other in the techniques of transforming matter in the field of mental representations.
ISSN:0391-9099