The cacio e pepe and the truffle end up on the blockchain

Gourmet dishes and blockchain go hand in hand with the latest news in the field of defense and enhancement of the Italian food and wine heritage. There is a startup that has made up its mind to end the debate on typical dishes once and for all, certifying ingredients, process and authorship on the blockchain. The project is called “Romanesco. typical restaurant “is promoted by and created with the technical partnership of the food tech startup pOsti. The company offers an authentication service for typical recipes and related raw materials, with a digital certificate that guarantees them throughout the production chain. According to its founder, “the challenge is no longer only to trace the raw materials, but also the transformation and preparation processes used to arrive at the ready meal”. Thus, the perfect cacio e pepe ends up on the blockchain in a traceability project of the individual recipes of Roman cuisine, respected in the orthodoxy of tradition, with a view to guaranteeing the authenticity of the most relevant information: author, territory, ingredients, touch of the chef . The restaurant experience, then, takes on even more interactive nuances. Once the certified dish has been ordered, you receive a notification on your smartphone with the history, composition, processing, cooking systems, up to the method of making the final dish. At that point the customer comes into play, because his review also ends up on the blockchain, authenticated, encoded and immutable. Not only that: the POS platform also uses the blockchain to generate an NFT to be associated with the dish, as happened during the presentation evening at Vino per Roma. Cacio e pepe by chef Cacciani has generated his NFT, digital twin of the physical dish, certified thanks to the blockchain.And there is another typical product that these days is preparing for digital certification to protect its authenticity and avoid fraud. . The Truffle Market app wants to put an end to foreign truffles passed off as Italians on restaurant tables all over the world. The app provides the collection with a certificate of origin, using blockchain technology that allows data to be unaltered by creating a register of information that changes uniquely and securely, ensuring reliable traceability to avoid deterioration of a product. so delicate. Once written on the virtual register, the data cannot be modified and thus you will be sure of the origin of the product.On Truffle Market only the products of some selected truffle hunters belonging to AssoTartufai are offered for sale directly by the quarryman. The customer who registers on the platform can see the products available with a photo and with the description of its characteristics, the name of the quarryman who extracted it, the place and date of extraction, the weight and the species. With a click you can proceed with the purchase and in 48 hours the truffle will arrive at its destination, accompanied by a certificate of origin. The app is already in operation and offers a delivery service in special containers that protect its organoleptic qualities, and restaurateurs who buy through the new technology will receive a recognition plaque, also to guarantee customers. At the moment it can be purchased from Italy and Europe, but the developers plan to make the app soon available for sales beyond the ocean and in Asia.