Protecting Traditional Origins - was Re: [Sca-cooks] Hot offthepresses: A new Feudal Gourmet pamphlet!

[Mark Hendershott]

At 09:57 AM 4/1/2006, you wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
><<<<No one in Walla Walla ever claims to grow Vidalia onions.  They grow
>their own
>Walla Walla Sweets, which taste different, and, in my humble opinion, better
>than
>Vidalias.  Sweet onions also come from Maui and Mexico and each tastes
>different
>from all the rest.  >>>>
>THEN
><<<I was under the impression that any onion labeled "Vidalia" had to come
>from that area of Georgia!  I thought it was a kind of trademark for
>that specific area and type of sweet onion...something like anything
>labeled "Champagne" has to come from that region of France (except for
>American vintages, because the US refused to sign the agreement.
>Kiri>>>>
>
>The above are actually why I mentioned the Vidalias as an example of
>"Protecting Traditional Origins".  1)  Georgia onion growers registered an
>official and legally binding trademark that 2)  Has been very effective in
>protecting their product's origins and branding their product for market.
>Another less local example is the 'Parma' products in Italy.  Gotta be from
>the right region and right cows to get proscutto di parma and parmegianno
>regianno.  These are to rather limited modern successes in definiing an
>exact geographical region for products, and will be remembered through
>centuries and centuries (it would appear) rather than having speculation by
>future historians as to where the name came from.
>
>niccolo
Cows-----proscutto  dir parma.  The pigs will be relieved to know 
another victim has been found.

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir