Il regime detta l’eleganza : Angelo del Focolare, femmina prosperosa.
Il fisico della donna ideale :
1,56/1,60 metri di altezza ; 55/60 chili
Secondo gli esperti dell’epoca, la caratteristica della donna alta e sottile “é la disposizione alle malattie e inoltre la sua eccitabilità sessuale è minore” Nicola Pende (1937)
Il regime pubblicizzò una campagna antidimagrante (1932)
Sembrerebbe legato ad un Italia rurale e autarchica, ma la moda odierna, propone a 10 euro la formula “all you can eat”.
Enorme buffet “ad libitum” fino alla capienza dello stomaco.
Bontà elargita a basso costo.
Ma l’euforia scema, come quella della nostra società limitless, allergica al limite…
Disperata nella sazietà che non è prosperità, né focolare, e che con questo cibo ha perso tutto.
Soprattutto se stesso.
Fascist food policies were based on the notion of alimentary sovereignty, or total self-sufficiency with regard to food supplies. Although the regime was unsuccessful in achieving complete self-sufficiency, alimentary sovereignty had a significant impact on everyday life and today challenges us to reconsider the authoritarian nature of Italian fascism. Fascist food policies reversed important trends in food habits and nutritional levels from the era before and during World War I, by holding down imports and encouraging the consumption of an austere diet based on bread, polenta, pasta, fresh produce and wine. Using archival sources, scientific writings and other printed materials on food consumption, this article traces the development of alimentary sovereignty as the guiding principle of fascist food policies, from the early years of fascist rule through World War II. This article argues that the history of food policies reveals the peculiar nature of fascist attitudes towards the Italian population, given that both food and population were controlled as strategic, then expendable, resources. Fascist policies also affected popular attitudes towards food and food preparation that extended into the postwar era.
Fascist food politics: Mussolini’s policy of alimentary sovereignty