As every March 9th, today in the United States is National Meatball Day: in Italy, we don’t have this holiday, perhaps because here every day could be National Meatball Day! There’s no perfect recipe for meatballs: the most common ingredients include ground meat, egg, parmigiano reggiano cheese, milk, parsley, bread, and salt, but in the countless...
READ MOREFuturism was a multidisciplinary artistic and social movement. Futurists wanted to reinvent all art forms: painting, sculpture, literature, photography, architecture, book production, dance, even cuisine… Futurist ideals were very radical, both artistically and politically. Italian futurists, led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, had a huge impact on...
READ MOREFuturism began as a literary movement, established by poet and propagandist, Filippo Tomaso Marinetti in 1908. Marinetti’s manifestos called for the destruction of public establishments, such as libraries, museums, academies, and the cities themselves. Young intellectuals flocked to the heels of his radical ideologies. Enamored by his desire to bri...
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