W SU CASU MARTZU! (FRAZIGU)
Yesterday during the television show ‘Fuori dal coro’ (hosted by the, ehm, "journalist" Mario Giordano), there was an extraordinary ‘culinary’ segment that I believe garnered applause from Sardinian viewers.
A ‘news item’ of strong emotional and cultural impact.
The 'rotten' cheese of the Sardinians, su casu martzu, is not harmful.
On the contrary.
This was asserted by a medical expert contradicting ‘ante omnes’ what is deemed by the verdict of good European health (so to speak) as a banned product, corrupted, spoiled, ‘rotten’ indeed and entirely prejudicial to health.
Things are quite the opposite, and European law, among many superficial and flawed laws (when they are not cunningly enacted ‘ad hoc’, that is, for the petty interests of the prevailing global food industry), has produced misinformation with incalculable damage regarding the health guaranteed by the so-called ‘Mediterranean diet’.
The Sardinians, as we know, whether there are laws or not, often fortunately go their own way, and su casu martzu still constitutes such a delicacy that anyone who today procures the cheese spread complete with worms can proudly claim to be fortunate.
Indeed, extremely fortunate. I believe host Giordano did well to highlight the absurd paradox of the inedibility of the corrupted cheese infested with the larvae of the cheese fly, versus the excellent edibility of the numerous categories of insects and their larvae that, backed by the culinary assurance of Chinese cuisine (and surroundings), have been tending to make ‘istranza’ our diet for some time now.
Ischies como ite bos naro?
Tocat a aboghinare meda po sa leze isciolloriada e istrollica e cussizare sos pastores nostros chi nde fetzant meda de casu martzu po balanzu.
Ca est cosa bona meda po sa ucca nostra, meighina po sa salude e, mancu a du narrere, cosa santa zaighì su casu martzu est testimonzu de s’antiga istoria de sos jaios e babbos mannos nostros. (cit. webbesca)
