Love Difference ice-cream as cultural passport



For the occasion of the 51. Venice Biennial of Art and the World Summit on Information Society in Tunis (go to the workshop) Michelangelo Pistoletto and Love Difference - Artistic Movement for an InterMediterranean Politic - presented the new ice-cream of halva flavour (sesame pastry, common in the Arab countries of the Mediterranean and in the Balkan areas). The recipe of the ice-cream has been shared with the free knowledge logic, i. e. the free spreading of knowledge.
The ice-cream has been also presented in the Gelato e Dolci Love Difference come passaporto culturale (Love Difference Ice-cream and sweets as cultural passports) event, within the exhibition "Cittadellarte Pistoletto e il Terzo Paradiso” curated by Bruno Corà, at the CAMeC in La Spezia, 22nd-24th February 2008.
The Love Difference Ice-cream represents the cultural passport for joining the different cultures in the Mediterranean area and making them closer, through the experience of tasting.
The idea of the ice-cream represents the cultural passport to put in relation and connect, through the taste, the Mediterranean cultures.

"[...] here we've eaten an ice-cream that we've called Love Difference and that aspires to being a cultural passport, a language not spoken but tasted. We created this ice-cream with halva, a tipically arab product, and we want this taste become the free software of the physical language. We want this ice-cream to be recreated, reproduced and even recombined with other ingredients, freely and by anyone that wants to. We need to start out from the idea of freedom and not exclusivity."
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tunis 2005

Recipe (4 servings):
3 egg yolks
200 ml double cream
350 ml milk
sugar as you like
70 gr halva
you can use different kinds of halva (pistachio, nuts, chocolate) to give the ice-cream different tastes.

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The idea of the ice-cream leads to the Love Difference confectionery project that will cross all the Mediterranean areas to activate, through creativity, intercultural meetings that will valorise difference. go to the Love Difference pastries project