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The Futurist Cookbook (Paperback)
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The Futurist Cookbook (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist
Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an
easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon;
candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted
meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for abolishing pasta as
ill-suited to modernity, and advocates a style of cuisine that will
increase creativity. Although at times betraying its author's
nationalistic sympathies, The Futurist Cookbook is funny,
provocative, whimsical, disdainful of sluggish traditions and
delighted by the velocity and promise of modernity. Filippo Tommaso
Marinetti was born in 1876 to Italian parents and grew up in
Alexandria, Egypt. He studied in Paris and obtained a law degree in
Italy before turning to literature. In 1909 he wrote the infamous
Futurist Manifesto, which championed violence, speed and war, and
proclaimed the unity of art and life. Marinetti's life was fraught
with controversy: he fought a duel with a hostile critic, was
subject to an obscenity trial, and was a staunch supporter of
Italian Fascism. Alongside his literary activities, he was a war
correspondent during the Italo-Turkish War and served on the
Eastern Front in World War II, despite being in his sixties. He
died in 1944. Lesley Chamberlain is a novelist and historian of
ideas. Her thirteen books include Nietzsche in Turin, The Secret
Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud and The Food and Cooking
of Russia. Suzanne Brill is an art historian and writer. She has
translated several books for Italian art historians including Caro
Pedretti's Leonardo: Architect, which was nominated for the John
Florio prize. 'A paean to sensual freedom, optimism and childlike,
amoral innocence ... it has only once been answered, by Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World' Lesley Chamberlain
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