Food, flavouring and feed plant traditions in the Tyrrhenian sector of Basilicata, Italy

Guarrera, Paolo Maria; Salerno, Giovanni; Caneva, Giulia

doi:10.1186/1746-4269-2-37

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“…We compared the data gathered during the field study with the following sources: the entire Italian ethnobotanical database (last updated in 2004) [36], the south-Italian ethnobotanical surveys that have been published in international journals and have (also) considered wild plants traditionally used in local cuisines [21][22][23][24][25][26][37][38][39][40][41], national ethnobotanical literature sources and popular references in which sound ethnobotanical observations were reported [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54], as well as wild food plant-centered ethnobotanical studies conducted in Southern Europe and published in international journals [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][27][28][29][30].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite the fact that these plants have represented for centuries and millennia the folk daily foods in the Mediterranean and the Near East, particularly during the winter and spring months, in-depth ethnography-based ethnobotanical studies published in the international literature and specifically focusing on the identification of traditionally gathered wild vegetables, as well as on the detailed documentation of their folk culinary uses, are still relatively scarce for the Mediterranean Basin, if we exclude some areas of Spain, inland southern Italy and Sicily, the Western Aegean part of Turkey, and Dalmatia [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The hidden Mediterranean diet: wild vegetables traditionally gathered and consumed in the Gargano area, Apulia, SE Italy

Biscotti¹,

Pieroni

2015

Acta Soc Bot Pol

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Despite the extensive bio-scientific literature concerning the Mediterranean diet, which emerged in the last three decades, systematic ethnography-centered investigations on a crucial portion of this food system, linked to the traditional consumption of non-cultivated vegetables, are still largely lacking in many areas of the Mediterranean Basin.In this research, an ethnobotanical field study focusing on wild vegetables traditionally gathered and consumed locally, was conducted in a few centers and villages located in the Gargano area, northern Apulia, SE Italy, by interviewing twentyfive elderly informants. The folk culinary uses of seventy-nine botanical taxa of wild vascular plants, belonging to nineteen families, were recorded, thus showing a remarkable resilience of traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) related to wild food plants. In particular, approximately one-fourth of the recorded wild vegetables are still very commonly gathered and consumed nowadays, while ten taxa have never been reported in previous ethnobotanical studies conducted in Southern Italy. These findings demonstrate the crucial cultural role played by folk cuisines in preserving TEK, despite significant socio-economic changes that have affected the study area during the past four decades.

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The hidden Mediterranean diet: wild vegetables traditionally gathered and consumed in the Gargano area, Apulia, SE Italy

Biscotti¹,

Pieroni

2015

Acta Soc Bot Pol

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“…Such studies were performed for instance on the Iberian Peninsula (e.g. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]), in Italy [9][10][11][12][13], Greece [13,14], Turkey [15,16], Bosnia and Herzegovina [17], Albania [18] and Austria [19]. The phenomenon of foraging in Europe has been, however, studied from different perspectives for centuries.…”

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Ethnobotanical review of wild edible plants of Slovakia

Łuczaj

2012

Acta Soc Bot Pol

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The growing interest in the use of wild food plant resources nowadays stems from efforts to find alternatives to the industrialization and globalization of agriculture and to provide food security in times of agricultural crisis. In the not so distant past many wild plants, instead of being eliminated from agricultural systems, constituted valuable supplementary sources of nutrition [1]. Within the last two decades, detailed ethnobotanical studies have been carried out in European countries to preserve the disappearing traditions of wild food plant use. Such studies were performed for instance on the Iberian Peninsula (e.g. [2-8]), in Italy [9-13], Greece [13,14], Turkey [15,16], Bosnia and Herzegovina [17], Albania [18] and Austria [19]. The phenomenon of foraging in Europe has been, however, studied from different perspectives for centuries. It was present in economic plant encyclopaedias [20][21][22][23] and later appeared as the subject of ethnographic studies. A separate branch of study concerns wild food plants as a means of alleviating food shortages during times of crop failures and wars [24,25]. Countries where ethnobotanical studies are most intensive now are usually places where little ethnobotanically oriented research has been done before. In contrast, there are a few European countries in which research on the ethnobotany of rural populations started at the end of the 19th century. Here we shall first of all mention two of them. One is Poland, where local ethnographic monographs, Józef Rostafiński's study of 1883, and the "Polish ethnographic atlas" all contributed to a large body of data concerning the use of wild food plants [26][27][28][29]. The other country is Estonia, where a similarly large number of ethnographic elaborations and queries is availableand it has been recently synthesized [30]. Łuczaj and Szymański [26] pointed out that the crosscultural and geographical analysis of the patterns of plant use in Europe is hindered by the fact that most publications were written in national languages, mainly in small ethnographic journals and monographs. Thus English-language critical reviews in widely available journals can constitute "building blocks" for further international analyses. The studies from Poland show a gradual disappearance of traditions of wild food gathering, since the 19th century or even earlier [26][27][28][29]. A similar gradual decrease must have occurred in other European countries as well.Slovakia has extensive published data on wild food plant use in the 19th and 20th century, but lacks a comprehensive review of them, apart from a short entry in a dictionary of folk culture [31] and three short essays with only a few literature references [32][33][34]. Hence a review of Slovak publications concerning this topic became the aim of the study. Material and methods Slovakia -its flora, geography and historySlovakia covers an area of 49 thousand km

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“…2300 taxa of plant and fungi gathered from the wild and consumed in the Mediterranean area [21]. European literature on the subject is extensive [26,28,[30][31][32][33][34].…”

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Gathering an edible wild plant: food or medicine? A case study on wild edibles and functional foods in Granada, Spain

2017

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A study on wild edible resources has been performed in the western part of Granada Province (Spain) using ethnobotanical methods. We document and analyze knowledge concerning wild edible plants and mushrooms and their folk medicinal uses in the study area. Several botanical features and use characteristics have been analyzed for the species included, with special attention to their medicinal uses, highlighting a large number of edible-medicinal species. Local importance of the medicinal uses for these resources has been confirmed. Up to 135 species are gathered from the wild in the study area, from which 46 can be considered folk functional foods. In addition, 45 crop plants with uncommon edible or medicinal uses are included, 29 of these being considered functional foods as well. Therefore, a total of 75 plant species are used as edible medicines which serve to treat 36 different conditions. The local concept of food and medicine regarding wild plant resources seems not to be well established. Studies on the pharmacological properties of these foods are needed in order to establish their real or potential benefits for the treated affections.

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Food, flavouring and feed plant traditions in the Tyrrhenian sector of Basilicata, Italy

Cited by 63 publications

References 27 publications

The hidden Mediterranean diet: wild vegetables traditionally gathered and consumed in the Gargano area, Apulia, SE Italy

The hidden Mediterranean diet: wild vegetables traditionally gathered and consumed in the Gargano area, Apulia, SE Italy

Ethnobotanical review of wild edible plants of Slovakia

Gathering an edible wild plant: food or medicine? A case study on wild edibles and functional foods in Granada, Spain

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