Il Mufete, piatto tradizionale dell’Angola cucinato con fornello migliorato / Mufete, traditional dish from Angola cooked with improved cookstove. Ph. Gabriele Galimberti
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Tuesday 15 October 2024 - Wednesday 30 October 2024

Clean Cooking Program: food, health and energyFE&L – Food Energy & Life

corner MAXXI
free entrance

An exhibition combining food and design that explores Africa’s rich and ancient culinary tradition through an immersive and engaging journey with distant images and sounds.

Starting from the social role of food, the initiative explores “Cooking, Energy, and Health,” Eni’s project dedicated to promoting ‘clean cooking’ aimed at raising awareness of the use of energy sources and improving culinary and nutritional skills within communities.

This is made possible through the use of improved cookstoves, presented in the exhibition, which are designed not only to meet functional needs, such as reducing the amount of biomass required for cooking, but also to promote ethical values like inclusion, accessibility, and overall improvements in health and quality of life.
This is one of the instances where design also serves a social purpose through an object that reduces energy consumption with greater efficiency and allows population groups who are typically tasked with cooking – often women – to have more time during the day to engage in other activities.