Futurist cooking

Futurist meals comprised a cuisine and style of dining advocated by some members of the Futurist movement, particularly in Italy. These meals were first proposed in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Luigi Colombo Fillia's "Manifesto of Futurist Cooking", published in the Turin "Gazzetta del Popolo" on December 28, 1930.
Concept.
According to Marinetti, he developed his concept of Futurism on October 11, 1908 while he was pondering the liberation of the Italian lyrical genius. He concluded that, for this to happen, it is necessary to change the method by going down into the streets, by attacking the theaters, and by bringing "the fist into the midst of the artistic struggle." When he introduced Futurist cooking, it was directed at combining gastronomy and art as well as the transformation of dining into a performance art. The Futurist movement recognized that people "think, dream and act according to what they eat and drink" so cooking and eating needed to become subservient to the proper aesthetic experience that Futurism favored. It has been associated with the notion of avant-garde in the sense that Futurist banquets are seen as great performances. Futurist food is also considered a means to address political and social issues. Marinetti's "Manifesto" has been described as a satirical polemic more than a cooking manual and was published in response to the Italian economic needs during the Depression.
As it expects the overturning of set patterns, some of its more interesting ideas for the realm of cuisine include Marinetti wanted Italians to stop eating foreign food and to stop using foreign food words: a bar should be called "quisibeve" (literally, "here one drinks" in Italian), a sandwich should be called "traidue" (between-two), a "maître d'hôtel" a "guidopalato" (palate-guide), and so on. [[Elizabeth David]], the cookery writer, comments that Marinetti's ideas about food contained a germ of common sense, but behind his jesting lay the [[Fascism|Fascist]] obsession with nationalism. Marinetti wanted to prepare the Italians for war. "Spaghetti is no food for fighters," he declared.
External links.
[[Category:Futurist movements|Meals]]
[[Category:Italian cuisine]]