Restaurant-goers around the world should eat a special pasta recipe from one of the Italian towns hit by a deadly earthquake this week as a way of showing support, campaigners suggested on Thursday.
A 6-magnitude quake on Wednesday destroyed half of Amatrice and killed at least 184 people there.
The hilltop town, located 150 km North-East of Rome is the birthplace of Amatriciana pasta sauce, based on pork cheek, tomato and pecorino cheese.
“We ask restaurant owners all over the world to add the dish that symbolises the stricken city to their menus and keep it for at least a year.
“We ask customers to pick it,” Slow Food President Carlo Petrini said in a statement about the A Future for Amatrice campaign.
“For every Amatriciana that is consumed, 2.26 dollars will be devolved [to Amatrice], one donated by the restaurant owner, one by the customer.
The money will be wired directly to the Municipality of Amatrice,” Petrini said.
Slow Food is an Italian-born global movement that defends local gastronomical traditions and sustainable farming methods.
It was founded in 1986 out of protests against the opening of a McDonald’s branch near the Spanish Steps in Rome.