Bisogno desiderio ossessione

It is enough to pay attention for a moment to the multiplicity of food metaphors that we daily use to realize how much anthropological and cultural power "eating" has and how in food primary desires and deep emotions are consumed. In our imaginary there are Chronos devouring their children, the fasting of Good Friday, the great famines and the serial killers who break the taboo of the taboos eating their victims, the faces of undernourished children and the pâtés of nouvelle cuisine, the junk foods and the sadistic performance of the anorexic body. Refined enjoyment, dramatic necessity, pathological obsession: an inextricable mixture that Paolo Rossi tells us masterfully following the various ways in which this verb has marked the history of humanity.