Collaboro regolarmente con il settimanale Alias del Manifesto , con i mensili Rumore e Il Giornale della Musica e con Slowfood , rivista italiana dell'omonima associazione internazionale non profit. Tra le altre testate con cui collaboro e ho collaborato ci sono Il Riformista, Vivilcinema, World Music Magazine, Beat, Duel, Urban, Label, Mood - suoni & visioni, Drome, Slow e Diario. Infine ho partecipato alle trasmissioni Onde Road e Jalla!Jalla! (questa in network) di Radio Popolare (Milano) in entrambi i casi per parlare di Argentina, Paese in cui ho viaggiato un paio di volte.
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I am a free-lance journalist born in Rome and grown up in Milan. I write mainly about music, cinema and in general about culture. I co-operate on a regular basis with the weekly magazine Alias of the daily Il Manifesto, with monthly publications such as Rumore and il Giornale della Musica and with Slowfood, magazine published by the italian no-profit organisation Slow Food. Amongst some of the other publications I work for there are World Music Magazine, Beat, Vivilcinema, Duel, Urban, Label, Mood - Suoni e Visioni, Slow, Drome and Diario. Finally I also worked for Radio Popolare (Milan) for various episodes about Argentina of the programs called Onde Road and Jalla!Jalla!.
Below you will find an extract from the english version of an article I have published on Slow, the international magazine of Slow Food.
SIN ASADO
Tour guides, web sites, travel tales, novels: vegetarian travelers searching for information on Argentina will find cold comfort reading up before a trip to the ‘land of asado’. They may do so in different ways, but they’ll find many more or less explicit warnings to non-meat eaters who want to visit the country. Pepe Carvalho, the gourmet detective of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s novels hammers home the point: in The Buenos Aires Quintet, published in 1997 (English edition, Serpent’s Tail, 2003) he does nothing but eat meat, all the better if greasy. But really he’s being no more than consistent: when he eats he doesn’t want to think about fat, health and so on. He’ll only start to do so if he has to, if cholesterol and toxin levels begin to give cause for alarm (see another Carvalho novel El Balneario, published in 1986). Andrea Attardi’s fascinatine travel tale, Buenos Aires Ora Zero (Desiderio & Aspel, 2002) is more contentious. Having celebrated the delights of the local meats, the author writes, ‘Even the most diehard, recalcitrant vegetarians would give in’, as if vegetarianism were not an intentional choice but a sacrifice, to be peppered with occasional treats. Anyone who deliberately follows a vegetarian diet or who is informed about the subject — and not just through hearsay - knows well that this isn’t the case. As for tourist guidebooks and sites containing online guides and theme readers’ forums, even these sources of ‘alternative’ information give in to alarmism wherever vegetarians are concerned, warning that, ‘you’ll risk anorexia’ or ‘for you, it’ll be a nightmare’. In reality, you need no more than a few days in ‘asado country’ to realize just how far from the truth all this.[...]
[Slow n°51 - July-September 2005; p.80 / full version download available here ]
