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The European Art of Taste: Italian Fruit & Veg Masterpieces

The European Art of Taste: Italian Fruit & Veg Masterpieces
Date: 17 September – 1 October, 2021, 
Venue: Mian
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The third European Art of Taste: Italian Fruit & Veg Masterpieces, hosted by Italy’s leading fruit and vegetable producers Centro Servizi Ortofrutticoli in partnership with the European Union, is at Mian from 17 September 1 October.

Chef Ronald Shao’s menu showcases Italian produce, prepared with Chinese techniques including “Boston Lobster with Organic Tricolour Quinoa with Chinese Tea Fragrant White Peach Jelly”, “Crispy Mantis Shrimp Fillet with Shallot Oil & Lemon with Prickly Pear Sauce”, “Pan-fried Spotted Grouper Fish Fillet with Sweet and Sour Plum Tomato Sauce” as well as “Double Boiled Cosda Pear with Honey Locust Fruit, Fritillaria Bulb & Tangerine peel” along with a refreshing “Kiwi and Hawthorn Daiquiri ” & “Blood Orange Juice”.

Choosing Who Lives or Dies….

Two weeks ago, Italy had 322 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. At that point, doctors in the country’s hospitals could lavish significant attention on each stricken patient.

One week ago, Italy had 2,502 cases of the virus, which causes the disease known as COVID-19. At that point, doctors in the country’s hospitals could still perform the most lifesaving functions by artificially ventilating patients who experienced acute breathing difficulties.

Today, Italy has 10,149 cases of the coronavirus. There are now simply too many patients for each one of them to receive adequate care. Doctors and nurses are unable to tend to everybody. They lack machines to ventilate all those gasping for air.

Now the Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI) has published guidelines for the criteria that doctors and nurses should follow as these already extraordinary circumstances worsen. The document begins by likening the moral choices Italian doctors may face to the forms of wartime triage that are required in the field of “catastrophe medicine.” Instead of providing intensive care to all patients who need it, the authors suggest, it may become necessary to follow “the most widely shared criteria regarding distributive justice and the appropriate allocation of limited health resources.”

The principle they settle upon is utilitarian. “Informed by the principle of maximizing benefits for the largest number,” they suggest that “the allocation criteria need to guarantee that those patients with the highest chance of therapeutic success will retain access to intensive care.”

Read the full article here at The Atlantic