One of 'the best artistic jokes of the century', this is both madcap cookbook and Futurist manifesto
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.
By:
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Introduction by:
Lesley Chamberlain Edited by:
Lesley Chamberlain Translated by:
Suzanne Brill, Suzanne Brill Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 191g ISBN:9780141391649 ISBN 10: 0141391642 Series:Penguin Modern Classics Pages: 256 Publication Date:25 June 2014 Recommended Age: From 0 years Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for The Futurist Cookbook
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