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

[Tom Vincent]

See what happens when you varmints disparage the French...you end up 
larnin' sumptin'. :)

Duriel


>>
>> 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
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