Italiano
We owe our fork to Spaghetti!
Spaghetti was a great invention (no, Marco Polo has nothing to do with it!).
On the other hand, there's an invention that we owe to sp...
14
Mar
Tag Archives: Professional Kitchen
02
Mar
Pizza from South to North
When it comes to pizza, Italy comes to mind.
You may wonder, "Why? Isn't that correct"?
Well, yes. Anyway...
Pizza has a very anci...
28
Feb
Still life salami
Where is it written that a still life must only portray fruit?
Giacomo Ceruti, a Milanese late-Baroque artist, must have thought thi...
22
Feb
Popeye: spinach and myth
Where does Popeye get his supernatural strength from?
I think we all know the answer to that: from spinach, of course.
We have be...
06
Feb
Sheldon Cooper and the Pizza
In an episode of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper professes his love for pizza by saying:
My favorite shape of food – a ...
25
Jan
How many types of bread?
How many types of bread are there in the world?
Many, for sure.
But no one seems to comment on the exact (or even approximate) numb...
18
Jan
Pizza and its “cornice”
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who leave the pizza crust on the plate, and those who know how to enjoy life!
All ...
16
Jan
Justice for the Apple!
You remember that story, I guess: God cast Adam and Eve out of Eden. The couple were guilty of having eaten the forbidden fruit from th...
12
Jan
The first Food-Photographer ever
As far as we know, this is the first "food pic" ever taken. Or maybe it's better to talk about "food daguerreotype"...
This ante-lit...
06
Jan
Refettory’s door
I monaci del Monastero di Alcobaça, in Portogallo sono abbastanza draconiani verso i piaceri della tavola. Tanto da aver costruito la porta che dà sul refettorio strettissima (due metri di altezza, e solo 32 centimetri di larghezza)….
