Il Vento d'Oriente

Human culture, a fictional culture set in the real world. In our alternate history it will conquer the world in a few thousand years.

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K1 is very similar to the C1. The paddle is double-bladed and the position is seated, so you go faster and it's more spectacular. But it looked less technical than C1

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Canoe slalom has two specialties: C1 (single-bladed paddle and kneeling position) and K1 (double-bladed paddle and seated position). This is Gabriela Satková doing C1, where she won

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We went to Ivrea, the capital of the Canavese region in Piedmont, to watch the Canoe Slalom World Cup. The Ivrea canal is special because it is located in the center of the town, along the Dora Baltea river

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They are basically chain rings unlikely to break, which is great in a society that relies a lot on trust.

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Our fictional culture praises monogamy as a proof of good character, reliability and good sense.

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Monogamous people are considered more likely to stand with their family (their partner's side included), to be reserved with strangers and to be emotionally stable, less easily manipulated and more natural (they don't have to show off or make compromises to look more desirable).

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There was a thermal and idropinic (water drinking therapy) centre here in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, but nowadays sulfur is used by an explosive factory, next to the fountain.

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This demonstrates that our tongue, along with bitter, sweet, sour and so on, also detects a sulfurous taste: the taste of garlic, onions, century eggs and pork. In Human this taste is called "sùlfuro"

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In Murisengo we also went to a sulfur water spring, that smells of rotten eggs. Our dog Xiaomai at first sniffed the water suspiciously, but then she tried to drink it and she liked it a lot.

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We made an interesting experiment, that you can replicate: if you put sulfur water in your mouth pinching your nose (eliminating any flavour perception), you will still taste sulfur.

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Monferrato is a region famous for wine and truffles. Here we are near the village of Murisengo. This region is depopulating: in 1861, when Italy unified, Murisengo had 2709 inhabitants, now there are just 1250.

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Italy has a great food variety: for example, we live 60 km away from Monferrato, but yesterday we heard of them for the first time

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These instead are friciule, salty fried breads, delicious with the soft cheese Robiola di Roccaverano (salami are too salty for them, in our opinion).

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Tajarin are a Piedmontese pasta made with flour and eggs (more eggs than any other Italian pasta: up to 30 egg yolks for 1 kg of flour). We found out that if you add grana padano (a parmesan-like cheese) the goose ragout tastes like goat meat.

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Yesterday we went to the tajarin with goose ragout fair, in a hilly region called Monferrato. In Piedmont there are many fairs, especially in Autumn.

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The Human breakfast has many different dishes, with a few things in common: they are sweet, they are warm, they are soft/liquid and they fill you up until lunch. This is an example, taught by my grandmother: a sweet soup with walnut omelettes, rice wine and brown sugar.

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What herb do you suggest us to grow?

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But we would like to grow South-East Asian herbs too, because we like a lot the Vietnamese cuisine.

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Since we live in Italy, now we are growing Mediterranean herbs, like thyme, marjoram, basil and sage.

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We want Human cuisine instead to be rich in herbs, like the Italian and the Vietnamese ones.

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We are working on the herbs for our culture (our favourite so far are sage, dill and cilantro), and we noticed that Chinese cuisine basically has only two aromatic herbs: cilantro and garlic chives (the plant you see here).