Author Description

Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's <i>Futurist Cookbook is</i> 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.