SPEAK FOOD:
food is your language
News
Edition 20
09.06.2026
SPEAK FOOD is the theme accompanying the twentieth edition of TASTE. A journey through the diversity of taste (Florence, Fortezza da Basso, February 6 to 8, 2027).
At TASTE, "we speak food." Because food is a universal language, a shared idiom, a recognizable alphabet. And it is also a gesture. To offer, to plate, to peel, to crumble, to shell, to feed: every action is part of a narrative.
Gestures and words often coincide, as Bruno Munari taught us with his brilliant 'Supplemento al dizionario italiano,' transforming typically Italian gestures into an immediately recognizable system of visual communication. Starting from there, we asked ourselves: why not try to codify the language of TASTE? A language that unites food and gesture?

— Francesca Tacconi, Special Event Manager at Pitti Immagine

This is how the advertising campaign announcing the twentieth edition of TASTE was born, with creative direction by Francesca Sarti and photography by Marius W Hansen, a Norwegian-born photographer celebrated for his still life captures, which with precision and a deep aesthetic sensibility have captured fashion, food, fragrances, and jewelry. The campaign video is signed Zampediverse.

The protagonists are some of Italy's finest ingredients — mackerel, capers, tomatoes, honey, cheese, and torrone — which speak through gestures. Hands front and center, as in Munari's book, while taste expresses itself through colors, textures, and forms.

Not one, but many different languages. Because at TASTE, WE SPEAK FOOD.
What about you? How do you SPEAK FOOD?