Lisbon – Some products have a special added value, stemming from an intangible component. This immaterial aspect exists when a product carries, along with its qualitative characteristics, a social message and becomes a symbol.

Carlo Barbieri’s book tells the story of one such product: the pasta produced by the Placido Rizzotto-Libera Terra Cooperative, made from wheat grown on land in the Palermo hinterland that was confiscated from mafia bosses. This area forms a triangle with Monreale, Corleone, and Camporeale as its vertices.

This is the focus of "Le mani in pasta. Le mafie restituiscono il maltolto” ("Hands in the Dough: The Mafia Returns What It Stole") by Carlo Barbieri. The author will present the book in Lisbon on March 10 at 6:30 PM at the Italian Cultural Institute, in an event moderated by Stefano Scaramuzzino, the Institute’s director.

Francesco Citarda, president of the Placido Rizzotto-Libera Terra Cooperative, will participate remotely. The event will also feature the screening of an excerpt from the documentary "Le mani in pasta. Le esperienze sui terreni confiscati alle mafie", directed by Daniele Biacchessi. (9colonne)