Indie is the contraction of the English term independent and it refers to all that, in the artistic field, is located outside of the big industries orbit. We are simply speaking of the independent cinema: in this case, five films related to the kitchen that were produced without any intervention of a production company, or […]
From the great Disney classics that have accompanied the childhood of millions of children to the recent by Pixar. There are many unforgettable films whose titles and plots see the kitchen as great protagonist: cartoons has always been inspired by the world of food; here we have selected the most famous and funny ones.
Fusion cuisine is the kind of cuisine that explicitly combines together elements from different culinary traditions; the cuisine where different cultures keep meeting and mixing. And this is what happens in these five fusion-flavored movies, five tasty plots that are the result of a combination of Indian cuisine with French one, Japanese with Brazilian and […]
A dip in the kitchens of the past. Five books that, with historical rigor, propose to illustrate the history of the most authentic and ancient cuisine. From Apicius to Scappi, five precious books to consult not so much for the recipes themselves but to better understand how and what our ancestors ate. Because beyond the […]
Cooking is a life’s metaphor: it evokes a power that easily conveys into literature production. The madeleine is a classical example: one of Proust’s best chapters, from his novel In Search of Lost Time, offers the catching synaesthetic feeling and the author’s desire to translate it into literature. Food has always suggested interesting starting points […]
Contemporary Art founds itself on a great tension for freedom. Freedom it is the only recurrent element in a particular art characterized by works produced with interdependent techniques and languages. It is maybe for this reason that Contemporary Art it shares with cooking not only the necessity of emotions but, very often, materials as well. This […]
The Surrealism is an artistic movement that want to express the self in full liberty and, above all, without any intervention of the reason. This art has the merit to force the spectator to go beyond what he sees, to show him a different reality that exists in an universe that cannot be touched, ineffable as […]
The XVII is the century of the still-life as an autonomous genre. The laying of humbly and daily objects is characterized by notable symbolic values. The fruit, the flower, well defined furnishes often assume a moralizing meaning. Seasons cycle, brittleness, frailty and annihilation are dear topics for a painter that faces himself with a minute […]
“You know what I love about cooking?” “I love that after a day when nothing is sure —and when I say ‘nothing’ I mean nothing!— you can come home and absolutely know that if you add eggs yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It’s such a comfort.” Julia Child Food, […]