Thursday 1 August 2024

The Italian Futurist Movement

 Banquet for the Milanese Futurists
15th November 1930
The Penna d'Oca restaurant 


Oie grasse
Ice cream on the moon
Tears of the god 'Gavi'
Consumato of roses and sunshine
Mediterranean favourite zig, zug, zag
Roast lamb in lion sauce
Little salad at daybreak 
Blood of Bacchus 'from the Ricasoli estate'
Well-tempered little artichoke wheels
Spun sugar rain
Exhilarating 'cinzano' foam
Fruit gathered in Eve's garden
Coffee and liqueurs


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The First Futurist Dinner
8th March 1931
The Holy Palate Restaurant 


Intuitive Antipasto
Sunshine Soup
Totalrice (Italian style risotto seasoned with beer, wine and fondue)
Aerofood (tactile with sounds and smells)
Ultravirile
Sculpted Meat
Edible Landscape
Italian Sea
Mediterranean Salad
Chickenfiat
Equator + North Pole
Elasticake
Network in the Sky
Fruits of Italy

Wines by Costa
Beers by Metzger
Spumanti by Cora
Perfumes by Dory


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Examples of Definitive Futurist Dinners

Wedding Banquet

A tureen of magnificent soup (rice, chicken livers and beans in quail broth)

A tray of Milanese saffron risotto and an abundance of truffles

Sauteed mushrooms 

Fernet for everyone 



A Dinner of White Desire

 Twenty fresh white eggs injected with a delicate perfume of acacia flowers

A large turren of cold milk with cubes of mozzarella cheese and sweet white Muscat grapes 

A tray laden with piece of coconut studded with nougat enclosed in layers of butter and arranged on a bed of boiled rice and whipped cream

Undiluted abuse, grappa or gin

Serves ten





* Information derived from 'The Futurist Cookbook' written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti *

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