Critics of the food critic – Fourth part
Friday, 09 June 2017
by Giovanni Ballarini 9 The abstract maker sees just a tiny plot behind a dish, a lunch or a restaurant a plot which he can see clearly. This plot is – based on his or the place actual conditions – historical, sociological, anthropological, and so on, and can mean many things, but without reaching any
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Critics of the food critic – Third part
Tuesday, 06 June 2017
by Giovanni Ballarini 5 – The historian-critic assumes a big variety of faces, depending on his specia-lization. For example, the medievalist, of each dish or menu he simply recalls that in the middle Ages and so on. etc. wasting time describing precious and unknown eating habits of a past irretrievably lost, revealing many details now
Critics of the food critic – Second part
Thursday, 01 June 2017
by Giovanni Ballarini 1.To start there are scientists-critics, with all due respect to real scientists, they only or mainly think in terms of calories, protein, fat and so on, almost obsessed to condemn the “richness” and always ready to praise the lightness” of a dish or a menu. A wretched and sad critic that does
Critic of the food critic – First part
Tuesday, 30 May 2017
by Giovanni Ballarini The job of food critic kills the essence of gastronomy that, in conviviality, must be pleasure, cultural entertainment and play, not to mention that, in the end, readers are always the ones who become critical of the relentless critics of food critics. Many feel and often qualify themselves as “food critics” or
The Island of secrets, or secret associations
Friday, 26 May 2017
by Luigi Alfieri Cuba is the island of magic, black or white does not matter. From Africa, from Spain, from the neighboring United States esoteric rites of all kinds have spread in the Caribe, surrounded by secrecy and mystery. Beside to the official religion of the whites, in the world of blacks grew Santeria, the
Absolute perfection
Thursday, 18 May 2017
by Luigi Alfieri It was a hot and moist day. Suffocating. My father took me into the jungle. Birds sang tired melodies. The cicadas chirped with a deafening clang. From the trees strange roots were hanging, linked to lance-shaped leaves. My old man got to the lower branches, drew one to him. My eyes widened.
Raid at the table: from the ancient to design
Thursday, 18 May 2017
by C.M. I am in Turin to follow a rugby match and, as this takes place in the evening, I decided to stay in town. At the station exit I take a taxi to get to the hotel and the taxi driver, very kind, explains the way I have to do to walk the next
A lonely Empress, and her murderer
Monday, 08 May 2017
by Michela Alessandrini Empress Sissi wrote, in July 1898, to her daughter Maria Valeria: “I am in a bad mood and sad, and the family may be happy to be away from me. I feel that I will not recover anymore“. Even during her last public appearance in Budapest, the local newspaper described her as
Hugo Pratt, nemo propheta in patria
Friday, 28 April 2017
by Nuccio Rotolo Hugo Pratt is one of the authors who contributed the most to maximize the potential of comics world by renewing the rules of different genres through his ability to mix history, fantasy, reality, fiction, adventure and humor. In 1945, Mauro Fastinelli and Alberto Ongaro founded the magazine Albo Uragano (Hurricane album) –
Armani Silos: 40 years long revolution
Monday, 10 April 2017
by Rossella Romito The third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, just like the recoil of a gun that shoots a bullet. The same blast you perceive once you get on the top floor of Armani Silos. The light, main subject of this section, reflects on