His parents - shows - followed the advice of the famous French doctor nudist Paul Carton (active until the year 40), completely unknown in Italy, if not the most learned among us naturists. would be enough, even if it were not vegetarian, lover of science, and super-secular non-believers, to make us happy today Margherita Hack, even more than we liked yesterday.
and L, can be so frank as a cross between an English and a Tuscan jokes about the "g" than its cuisine, says the interviewer, he compared the science of the heavens, if not to declare a half- duffer in the kitchen ("well ...") some one who knows the art to get by every day with food simple and not at all prepared.
That 's what we want and naturists, indeed, we are criticized. I, too, I was falsely accused by my father not to pursue the food but the mere sustenance, even if I can do well and all the essentials, including bread, with yeast in dough (every Friday), the pies filled with vegetables, mozzarella or ricotta cheese, all kinds of soups, and even the panettone of Milan. All the while using one hundred percent whole wheat flour: fundamentalists are born. And then the family has always been misunderstood: the greatest twentieth-century Italian writer Carlo Emilio Gadda, for the mother was just an engineer who earned little, distracted from the literature.
Hack I also like the frankness and sincerity of the Anglo-Saxon, and this too deep, vaguely peasant disarming anti-snobbery that makes you prefer the egg to the seitan or tofu, as little schoolgirl on the advice of the parents had no shame cartoniani lunchbox to eat in the soup whole wheat "bean" sprouted overnight in water, which amazed his teammates. The children, you know, are of great conformation.
Natural and decent - how to say? - Secular, his sense of brotherhood towards animals, devoid of aggressiveness, emphatic statements of those and exaggerations of character that sometimes darken psychopathological aspects.
Nonconformist even in "two eggs a day." The "like", I agree, but even that will not "serve"? Let us reason to Sherlock Holmes. Astronomer needs a good view, especially in old age. It just happens to lutein and zeaxanthin, which is abundant in egg yolk, protect against macular degeneration and cataracts that plague many older people, as a test study which is reported for example among many.
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The interview, as simple as panzanella proposed by Hack (see recipe at end Article ), recovering from the site of one of the many illustrated magazines and cooking recipes that fill newsstands, where a little 'everything is "natural", sometimes inappropriately (NICO VALERIO):
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"Beautiful dawn of summer in the Dolomites, in the Cimon della Pala, the first pink rays of the sun. Hundreds of people sitting in the grass, still in shadow, to the tune of the cellist Mario Brunello and the words of Margaret Hack. Talk about primitive people who were waiting for the sunrise with trepidation, not quite sure that every morning he repeated the miracle of the sun, then the expansion of the universe e. .. cake with nuts. Brilliant simile that our most famous and beloved astrophysics, popularizer by vocation, he contrived to let the cosmos and the stars in the pumpkin of us poor mortals. So we went to visit Professor Hack in Como and we chatted ranging from Margaret vegetarian since childhood to the man who always believed at the center of the universe, natural step for the cake with nuts ...
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P rofessoressa Margherita is always difficult to be vegetarian in the land of the Florentine?
When I was a child go to school with the corn kernels in the basket and was considered eccentric at least inevitably my friends laughed at me. But I have never tasted meat in my life, nor what I miss or I created nutrient deficiencies. The vegetarian diet was adopted by my parents following their accession to the Theosophy, which had been approached because of dissatisfaction with their respective religions, Protestant father and Catholic mother. However, my parents were not believers and practitioners in the theosophical philosophy and I was brought up with a secular mindset, above all inculcating the ethical concept that all life forms have the same value. The vegetarian choice is a consequence of the refusal to kill animals, that even as a child I was taught to love and respect, as I think the other part would be instinctive for each child. I remember when I saw a dog, cat or other animal, the spiritual father to me egava to approach it with calmness, to give him time to get used to me and get to know each other as you would with any new friend just to make me understand that all creatures of the universe have the same dignity.
As for food, my diet and followed the directions of a medical doctor naturist French, Dr. Paul Carton, who just suggested to start a meal with grains of wheat required to soak to soften. I was a happy girl who ate everything and I still enjoy good appetite. I especially like the pasta much, tomato and garlic, and chili oil. The sauce, however, I learned to appreciate it outside the home, because my father was believed to be unhealthy: once, after a while 'distrust, I decided to try it and I realized that it was really good! And now, rather than with the grain, I open the room with a plate of raw vegetables.
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have any passion for a particular food? I love eggs and I almost always eat two a day, fried or raw, full of holes above and below, one lunch and one at night. Once, at the end of a mission to the observatory in the Swiss mountains, the Jungfraujoch, were advanced eight eggs that they could carry for obvious logistical reasons: me and ate it all without any unpleasant consequences! And continues to love them very much ...
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What else remembers his childhood? For example, the restrictions of war?
Certainly the difficulties were many. We was in a quite area on the outskirts of Florence, adjacent to the campaigns, and something even took on the black market. And the cats were hungry one day he came to my house with a nice cheese in the mouth, followed by the neighbor who shouted: "Margaret the cat stole the Federal cheese!" Other than the cheese Rome, similar to the packaged cheese slices, which touched us with your card!
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And in the kitchen as he gets?
short, smooth cook simple things. One of the first dishes I cooked was a tomato risotto, while we were guests of friends of his father in a Milan destroyed by bombing, shortly after the war, even when there was difficulty finding a place to sleep. We had a stove in spirit and I put the tomatoes into the pan and cook the rice and I did ... ate and what resulted.
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Back to the dawn of the Dolomites: we explain to our readers the question of the cake with hazelnuts.
Primitive people were so excited and scared that they invented the and I, an atheist, I am convinced that all religions have arisen to give those explanations that do not get science, as well as to satisfy the desire for immortality. As for the metaphor of the cake, I will say that I've come up with because the way it expands the universe is a difficult concept to understand and must also correct misconceptions, such as that the great explosion, the Big Bang, would give rise to escape the galaxies, as if the grand slam had thrown the galaxies in all directions away from each other and away from us at the center of the universe, usually anthropocentric hard habit to die. Instead, it is not so, because the heavenly bodies move apart of them because they move with respect to a center, but because they are immersed in an expanding field, simultaneously from wherever it is considered, just like in the hazelnut cake made of dough, receding to the rising of the dough.
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difficult now some of us forget the universe's expansion. And good to see changes between astronomy and gastronomy only a "g". course, and if there were no stars and the sun gives life there would not even food! This should make it clear that we are part of a whole and that we are the product of evolution of the universe: all the elements of which we are made were produced in the early universe, the lighter, and all other big stars in the sun, too full of energy that explode and enrich the entire universe of elements essential to life.
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Bella made the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing a star! And this knowledge is crucial to understand that man is the center and the end of the universe.
course, and is the basis of respect for all forms of life and an open mind that do not face discrimination based on race, sex or religion and that leads to true equality for all people. But the concept of man at the center of the universe in all directions is hard to overcome: one thinks of characters like Giordano Bruno, who was condemned to the stake because they challenged these ideas!
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When it comes to equal rights, since the argument based on our conversation, there is also to be able to feed ...
The vegetarian choice is not only determined by the refusal to kill, but even that is healthier and economically more advantageous, because they feed poor people much more directly with products of the earth than with animals fed with these products. And so if there is enough food for all, will inevitably adopt a vegetarian diet all and I hope that this lifestyle is becoming increasingly common.
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PANZANELLA EGGS. Recipe Margherita Hack
Ingredients for 4 servings: 500 g of bread, tomatoes, 4, 6 plum tomatoes, 1 celery, 1 red onion, 1 bunch of basil, 1 bunch of mint, a handful of pitted olives, 1 handful of capers, 1 garlic clove, 4 eggs, extra virgin olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.
Preparation: If you want you can firm up the eggs and add to panzanella, and of course you can pick all the leftovers of vegetables or another, such as cheese, in your home. It should be prepared at least an hour before so that flavor, and kept in the refrigerator. How
: 1 Soak the bread for about twenty minutes, then squeeze it and put it in a bowl that will contain all the other ingredients. Wash and cut into cubes 2 tomatoes, peeled and thinly sliced \u200b\u200bonion, washed and cut into pieces celery, peeled clove of garlic, chopped and washed his hands with the basil and mint, Soak the capers if under salt, then rinse. 3 United wrung all the vegetables to the bread seasoned with oil, vinegar and salt and mix well with your hands.
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IMAGES. 1. The Vegetarian astronomer Margherita Hack with his cat. 2. A tasty soup in whole wheat grains, with a trace of tomato, that really like the Hack. 3. The eggs, so beloved by the scientist.
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