IN A 1932 INTERVIEW, MARIETTA Sabatini was asked to describe the life of her late employer, Pellegrino Artusi. It was “a continuous alternation,” she said, “between the study and the kitchen; the pen, and the saucepans.” The founder of a successful bank and a longtime resident of Florence, Artusi was a wealthy bachelor who devoted his retirement to...

Good Friday (venerdi santo) is a solemn, sacred day in Italy and when it comes to food the menu for a “pranzo di quaresima‘”, (a luncheon meal for this final Lenten observance) has a long and important tradition. In 1891 Pellegrino Artusi, an Italian merchant with an interest in the art of cooking, wrote La Scienza in Cucina e l’arte di mangiar ben...

Saturday, January 22nd. 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST. LIVE FROM ITALY. Online Via Zoom. Conversation will be in English. Sign up here. Organized by the Italian Cultural Center in MInneapolis. Join us for the last in the series of educational workshops that will make you feel as if you have graduated from an Italian culinary history class! Thirty years af...

Premio Artusi 2019 è Lidia Bastianich. Italo-americana, ristoratrice di successo negli States, celebre volto televisivo oltreoceano, autrice di numerosi best seller, grande appassionata di cucina italiana. A scegliere il suo nome è stato il Comitato scientifico di Casa Artusi, con questa motivazione “quale cuoca, scrittrice e imprenditrice, per la...

This exhibition explores the world-famous cookbook Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well (La scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiar bene) published by Pellegrino Artusi in 1891. More than a cookbook, this book was a political project – the contribution Artusi wanted to give his country, laboriously unified a few years earlier. “I am exci...

In a world of customer profile analyses, response rate statistics, and tracking tools, Pellegrino Artusi’s innate ability to understand what was needed to get his audience to read, engage with, and advance his seminal 19th century cookbook, La scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiar bene (Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well) is refreshi...

Non c'è scaffale nelle cucine italiane che non ospiti il famoso manuale di cucina scritto da Pellegrino Artusi: “La scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiar bene. Manuale pratico per le famiglie” del 1891. Qui sono custodite ben 790 ricette, raccolte nel tempo pazientemente dall'autore in innumerevoli viaggi. “L'Artusi” è diventato uno dei più importa...