The Futurist Cookbook av Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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<p>Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti''s<i> Futurist Cookbook</i> is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for abolishing pasta as ill-suited to modernity, and advocates a style of cuisine that will increase creativity. Although at times betraying its author''s nationalistic sympathies, <i>The Futurist Cookbook </i>is funny, provocative, whimsical, disdainful of sluggish traditions and delighted by the velocity and promise of modernity.<br><br>Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was born in 1876 to Italian parents and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. He studied in Paris and obtained a law degree in Italy before turning to literature. In 1909 he wrote the infamous <i>Futurist Manifesto</i>, which championed violence, speed and war, and proclaimed the unity of art and life. Marinetti''s life was fra