| APERITIVO | Substantive. In English Appetizer. Drink used to whet the appetite before a dinner. Substantive. Milanese tradition to get people together, offering every kind of drink and tons of food. Is a ritual that is followed by all kind of Milanese inhabitants. The people is allowed to eat until you wonder about how it is profitable for anyone. The creation of such tradition and its massification abroad the northern Italy is participating in the construction of Milan’s identity and, in a deeper approach, is also exposing its diversity on different dishes, prices and spaces that get together on the idea of sharing a table, a drinks and some food. Nowadays, the city identity and its reflection on its gastronomy is one of the ways that the migrants and the natives from a place can reflect their own identities and, in certain way, construct the city or cities. You can have an italian, Chinese or Peruvian appetizer is just about discovering the many faces of Mediolanum. For example, normally an aperitivo would consist on hams, cheese, breads, focaccia and pasta but, with the new mixture, can offer foreign dishes, as sushi, nachos, couscous or paella among many other. The places that offers an aperitivo are scattered over the city, but some of the most famous and traditional areas to get an aperitivo has been, traditionally, in the center of the city in places like the Navigli, Duomo, Arco della Pace, Garibaldi and Corso Como and, more recently, on Paolo Sarpi /Canonica, Porta Venezia, Isola and NoLo, but is remarkable to mention that you can find places with different bars that offers an aperitivo over the whole city. This omnipresence of the aperitivo also allows to present a most focused mixture at the scale of neighborhoods and the experimentation with the tradition that enables the local appropriation of that practice. • Credits | Group 2: Manimekalai Sowrirajan Thein, Merlini Ayano, Perdomo Guzmán Jose Gabriel, Yao Jiaqi | Postcard by Alejandra Campo.
