Inside the Intentionally Scandalous 1932 “Futurist Cookbook”
In 1932, a charismatic and provocative Italian poet declared war on his country’s most sacred idol: pasta. It was “an absurd Italian gastronomic religion”, decried Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in The Futuristic Cookbook, and those known to enjoy the “old-fashioned” dish were “melancholy types” who “carry its ruins in their stomachs like archaeologists”. They suffered from … Read more