Food has its own language, sometimes esoteric and understandable only to the "initiated." Food has its words, or rather, its metaphors.
The metaphors of food are the oldest, most comprehensible, and most immediate. Stories of old, even from distant times, were all based on food, which was scarce, difficult, and the infinite subject of disputes and conflicts. Today, food is integral to lifestyles, having moved beyond its physiological role to achieve a fundamentally cultural and anthropological approach.
However, its metaphorical power remains, its ability to draw to itself even topics, attitudes, and universes that are far removed from it. Food continuously generates new terms, or in a regime of constant exchange, takes words from the outside and brings them into its universe, or conversely, gives up terms that originate from cuisine and wine and then appear in other aspects of individual and collective life.
