esterofilia
Italian
Noun
esterofilia f (uncountable)
- xenophilia; xenomania
- Synonym: xenofilia
- 1932, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, translated by Suzanne Brill, La cucina futurista [The Futurist Cookbook]:
- In Italia, come in quasi tutti i paesi del mondo, si subisce questo tipo di cucina internazionale di grande albergo, unicamente perchè viene dall’estero. Domina purtroppo una bestiale mania, che chiamiamo esterofilia, che occorre combattere accanitamente.
- In Italy, as in almost every country in the world, we submit to this type of international grand hotel cuisine only because it comes from abroad. A bestial mania unfortunately dominates us, which we call xenomania, which we must fight against relentlessly.
Further reading
- esterofilia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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