Italiano
Carrots’colour
What color are carrots?
Well, the answer isn't that simple...
They can be orange, or yellow, white, purple, black...
The externa...
30
Aug
Tag Archives: cuisine
29
Aug
Pastafazool
When the stars make you drool,
just like pasta fazool,
That's amore!
I have always been amazed by the fact that one of the typical...
26
Aug
Arcimboldo’s dishes
One of the most eccentric artists of the sixteenth century was certainly the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Arcimboldo was fam...
05
Aug
Campi’s kitchen
This is what a professional kitchen must have looked like in 1580.
Two men quarter a calf, two women make pasta with a rolling pin, ...
22
Jul
The Pasta eater
Little is known about the life of the Dutch painter Matthias Stomer.
We know he was born in 1600 near Utrecht, and that, passionate ...
20
Jul
Gastrophysics
As Professor Charles Spence from Oxford University has amply demonstrated, the taste of food depends not only on the sense of taste its...
15
Jul
The painting’s enigma
Is the old lady frying the eggs? Or poaching them?
This is the dilemma lying behind this splendid painting that Diego Velázquez, a S...
14
Jul
Pasta, water and salt
How much salt should you put in the pasta water?
The "1-10-100 rule”
First thing first, a necessary premise: “gastronomy” is not an...
07
Jul
Crescent of the moon
"Croissant", a pastry named after the moon.
Well, not exactly the moon, rather a lunar phase.
Yes... its name derives from the expr...
01
Jul
Gastrodiplomacy
Wouldn't it be great if instead of sending tanks across the border, differences could be settled by cooking?
This is the concept on ...
