Mills, flour and public control
Grain passes through civic mills; milling is regulated and taxed. Bread and flour are therefore administrative matters as well as food.
HISTORY OF PIEDMONTESE CUISINE
Turin, markets and food supply
Bread, grain, wine, meat, mills, slaughterhouses and markets show that food is also administration, economics and public health.
Meat, slaughterhouses and health
In the eighteenth century butcher shops are reorganised and controls focus on weight, quality and the health of meat.
Ice and preservation
The underground ice stores of Porta Palazzo work like early cold rooms before industrial ice production.
Porta Palazzo and the modern market
Concentrating markets at Porta Palazzo also responds to sanitary needs; in the twentieth century the MOI introduces a new architecture for food trade.