Milan, April 3 (Inditop.com/AKI) Nobody can cook like grandma, a majority of Italian people feel while others are of the opinion that traditional food has almost disappeared, according to a survey.
Around 77 percent of the 1,800 Italian people surveyed said no one cooks as well as their grandmother, while 57 percent said that ingredients that made traditional unique dishes have disappeared.
Italy’s tradition of family feasts supervised by grandmothers is fading as the quality of ingredients is on the decline in the country with one of the world’s most celebrated cuisine, the survey by lifestyle magazine Vie del Gusto said.
Around half of Italians prefer eating in restaurants to the traditional large family feasts at home, according to the magazine. But 80 percent of those surveyed said it was very hard to find the taste of home-made dishes when they ate out.
The survey said Italians are increasingly forgoing neighbourhood butchers and greengrocers for less expensive supermarkets, while workers who earlier went home for lunch now eat processed food close to the office.
Only 21 percent of Italians have regular family feasts, that too, on special occasions, like Christmas and Easter when grandmothers prepare 87 percent of the meals.
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