{"product_id":"filippo-tommaso-marinetti-the-futurist-cookbook-2014","title":"Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Futurist Cookbook [2014]","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's\u003ci\u003e Futurist Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Futurist Cookbook \u003c\/i\u003eis funny, provocative, whimsical, disdainful of sluggish traditions and delighted by the velocity and promise of modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilippo 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 \u003ci\u003eFuturist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, which championed violence, speed and war, and proclaimed the unity of art and life. Marinetti's life was fraught with controversy: he fought a duel with a hostile critic, was subject to an obscenity trial, and was a staunch supporter of Italian Fascism. Alongside his literary activities, he was a war correspondent during the Italo-Turkish War and served on the Eastern Front in World War II, despite being in his sixties. He died in 1944.\u003cbr\u003eLesley Chamberlain is a novelist and historian of ideas. Her thirteen books include \u003ci\u003eNietzsche in Turin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Food and Cooking of Russia\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Suzanne Brill is an art historian and writer.  She has translated several books for Italian art historians including Caro Pedretti's \u003ci\u003eLeonardo: Architect\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for the John Florio prize.\u003cbr\u003e'A paean to sensual freedom, optimism and childlike, amoral innocence ... it has only once been answered, by Aldous Huxley's \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e' Lesley Chamberlain\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso \u0026 Brill, Suzanne \u0026 Chamberlain, Lesley","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53533444309331,"sku":"9780141391649","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53533444276563,"sku":"XV80141391649","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/marinetti-filippo-tommaso-brill-suzanne-chamberlain-lesley-filippo-tommaso-marinetti-the-futurist-cookbook-2014-1233411946.jpg?v=1776800711","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/filippo-tommaso-marinetti-the-futurist-cookbook-2014","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}