Gianfranco Marrone and Anita Romanello Reconsider Eden's Menu on Doppiozero

Published on Doppiozero and dated Sunday, 18 October 2026, "Saziarsi in paradiso" is a co-authored piece by Gianfranco Marrone and Anita Romanello that opens with a deceptively simple question: what did Adam and Eve eat while living in the Garden of Eden? The authors note that the first couple were well provided for. Beyond the notorious apple tree — which some sources identify instead as a fig — God had, in their phrasing, patented the whole of nature for human use: everything edible, from seeds, roots, leaves, plants and fruit to eggs, assorted beasts and the products derived from them. The quality, they stress, was uniformly excellent, free of suspect preservatives or dangerous additives, with no frozen goods or canned items, and access was open for ages upon ages. The only task left to Adam and Eve was selection, described as a kind of ancestral "all you can eat." Since no other people were around to serve as kitchen staff, the pair prepared their own lunches and dinners, eaten under moonlight or under a sun that did not burn too harshly — a situation the authors call a breeze, at least until the Fall. Marrone and Romanello acknowledge the story resembles a fable but argue it raises a genuine question: what did later generations make of it, and how did they put it to use? The text, filed under the byline of both authors, moves from the Edenic pantry toward that unresolved question about how subsequent eras interpreted and exploited the abundance described in Genesis.