Argonauta. Part 6
- Belongs to the work: Argonauta (Sergio Antolini)
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| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2022 May |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | Your majesty the wheat Author - Dr Sergio Antolini, President of Ocrim and Paglierani, Italy The early 1800s Charles Darwin states that plants are, for mankind, the most ancient food medium and that meat was never the main food. Wheat has always been the fundamental element of nourishment for man, both for his physical sustenance and for the soul. Pascoli, like Papini, like Van Gogh: ripe wheat, the result of a long work that lasted months, the expression of triumph, vitality and the coincidence of the elements of nature. Wheat fields, a landscape of the beautiful country, a cultural heritage, sometimes (too often) neglected, forgotten, despite being the expression of the traditions to be protected, for their historical value and economic potential, founding local development. The abandoned mills And one day I have to go at the bottom of the mountain crevice to look at myself in the ditch that brings water to the Marecchia; you have to put your nose inside the abandoned mills where the charcoal burners with black hands broke the hot loaves to eat with cheese. The wheels are standing there the walls with floured nails but the air moved by butterflies will smell like bread and of the life that never dies. (Tonino Guerra, poet and screenwriter, my fellow citizen) ...Read more. |
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