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When lives are rigidly separated by a walled grid, is there a link between them other than verbal exchange? What about when one cannot use voice to express feelings? By describing some of the most particular pastry recipes from Sicily’s convent traditions, Maddalena Borsato will try to open up a philosophical discourse about the relationship between pastry activities in monastic life and enclosure, characterized by the prohibition of going outside the boundaries of the cloister and the obligation of silence.

Through the ambivalent meanings of sweetness, she will explore the idea of tacit communication in relation to the importance of the gift. Used as donations to important figures at the time, confectionery was meant from the nuns to be not only an act of gratitude, but also a way to exchange meanings and express veiled desires.

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MADDALENA BORSATO

Maddalena Borsato is a PhD student in Ecogastronomy, Education and Society at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, with a research project on the aesthetic of sweet taste. Pastry chef since 2014, she has been promoting since a few years the political role of food as an instrument of self-determination and empowerment by working with some women's cooperatives in Saharawi Refugee camps (Algeria).

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THE UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES

The University of Gastronomic Sciences, founded in 2004 by the international non-profit association Slow Food in cooperation with the Italian regions of Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna, is a ministerially recognized, private non-profit institution.

Its goal is to create an international research and education center for those working on renewing farming methods, protecting biodiversity, and building an organic relationship between gastronomy and agricultural science.

The result is a new professional figure, the gastronome!

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