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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Professione? Blogger
-> Professione? BloggerCome ospite del Blog Café a Squisito, ho avuto l'opportunita di incontrare dei importanti Blogger. Luigi di PorzioniCremona, Agostinelli, Massimo Bernardi di Dissapore... sono tutti esperti maratoneti della cronaca minuto per minuto. L'evento è stato diretto magistralmente da Luigi Cremona e Lorenza Vitali (Witaly). Amorevoli con tutti i...
continue..Quando il cibo diventa cultura
-> Quando il cibo diventa culturaDi ritorno da San Patrignano (Rimini) dove ieri si è chiuso Squisito, posso dire che se illywords ha trattato il tema Conviviliaty non è un caso perchè il cibo è cultura. Ho visto passione in chi spiegava ai visitatori il proprio prodotto, ho seguito i corsi di the, cioccolato, caffè, che da secoli stanno accompagnando la storia dell'uomo e ...
continue..Bello e Buono…anzi SQUISITO!
-> Bello e Buono...anzi SQUISITO!Domani sarò a San Patrignano al mio primo Squisito, la grande manifestazione sul mondo del cibo organizzata ogni anno dai 1500 ragazzi della communità di San Patrignano (Rimini) e inaugurata oggi, Venerdi 30 Aprile. L'emozione è grande perchè nello spazio Blog Cafè si potrà parlare anche di illywords e dell'ultimo numero #28 Conviviality. E...
continue..Who was your table companion when…
-> Who was your table companion when...I attend a lot of business dinners in a year. Perhaps too many. I have a technique. I smile… Smiling and nodding towards my left and right companions, I aim not be deeply involved in various conversations. Usually I find myself with loquacious table companions, and I can also eat. Only once I flaunted my learning and I addressed a hands...
continue..Fear of not succeeding
-> Fear of not succeedingThe countdown has started towards issue #28... "che emozione!" Cut, add, translate, check, cut again... that doesn’t work… now it is ok! We lack a cover but Pietro (Corraini) is finalizing it and will be good for sure. The feather is growing and at the same time grows the fear of not suceeding. This is the most critical phase w...
continue..Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus Academy
-> Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus AcademyWe're off to a great start on Issue 28 at Domus Academy in Milan! The theme of this issue will be conversations, relationships, conviviality... whether inside our homes or beyond. And what is one of the most delightful situations for creating smart conversation? At the table of course... When we eat, preferably over some good food… The ...
continue..The essential Martí
Magazine -> #14 RefreshLet’s take irony: a linguistic picklock, a means for coping and coming to grips with an ever changing world, a way of putting oneself on the board. Irony hasn’t much currency lately, a circumstance that often makes for cultural doldrums. How does irony fit into your works? Well, I take it as a personal commitment to ensure that all my works ...
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindI met the suggestion that I write something up on the topic of “food for the mind” with enthusiasm. Not only do I find it stimulating, but it’s also very topical. Our physiological needs, as Maslow calls them, including self-security, a sense of communal belonging and esteem, have been fairly much appeased in the West; we’ve peaked his famo...
continue..Festivaletteratura: appetite comes with eating
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindillycaffè and the Mantua-based Festivaletteratura have been partnering for five years now. The “Young Writers” event is especially promoted by illy to afford budding writers the opportunity of meeting the public at an unusual venue, such as the bar. The illystories collection, which publishes the individual stories of the participants in the ...
continue..Biennale – Culture open to comparison
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindFor the first time, illycaffè is a partner of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, continuing the relationship which began at the previous editions of Biennale Art in 1997, 2003 and 2005. Against this background of cultural enjoyment we talked to Chairman Davide Croff on the theme of “food for thought”. Ha...
continue..Mugaritz
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindRECCOMENDED DISHES: Entrées: CRUSHED POTATOES, BROKEN EGGS AND “VEGETABLE COAL” dressed with a “garlic protein”. Fish: COD STEAK covered with tapioca pearls cooked “at the bottom of the cider barrel”. “Accents” of saffron, rosemary, thyme, mint and a blend of spices. Meat: ROAST ESCALOPE OF FOIE GRAS with legume and yeast b...
continue..New kaizen italian cuisine
Magazine -> #22 KaizenLook in the most authoritative Italian dictionary, and you still won’t find the word kaizen. Italy’s cuisine, however, is one step ahead of its language and the coining of neologisms: it tends to reduce or eliminate the superfluous and concentrate on the essential. In the 2004-2005 edition of the Dizionario della lingua italiana by Giacomo D...
continue..To eat childhood; three degrees of amazement in the kitchen
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseAnyone with a minimum of technical ability can be a wizard in the kitchen. The domestic chef, from whom we expect less, can amaze us with the deliciousness of a well-cooked dish. At advanced amateur (or basic professional) level we are surprised by an original recipe, a combination of flavours, or an unusual presentation. The art of surprise for...
continue..Cogito ergo sum
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeCogito ergo sum, it reads on what is probably the most famous work by German artist Rosemarie Trockel. In actual fact, it is not a painting but a frame containing a piece of knitting like Grandma used to do. The insight of Descartes meets feminine handiwork, through a subtly sophisticated critique of Cartesian dualism, which will not leave us alone...
continue..Authentic Cisneros
Magazine -> #14 RefreshSandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 in a family of Mexican extraction. She's currently one of the most complex literary voices of the United States. Legend and history, poetry and prose, the radio and music, English and Spanish are interwoven in her writings like the threads that go to make up the warp and weft of a caramel coloured rebo...
continue..Learning western ways
Magazine -> #12 Waiting for ChinaVittorio's family-given name is Qun, but his love for and knowledge of Italy have led him to adopt this very Italian sounding name. Our meeting with Vittorio is at his interior design atelier in Beijing, where he has been working for eight years now, especially for nouveau rich Chinese families whom he furnishes with many Made in Italy products. ...
continue..Wide angle vision
Magazine -> #17 SerendipityThe word “serendipity” was introduced in 1700 by Horace Walpole. In a letter to an acquaintance, he commented on a Persian legend in which the travellers “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”. After that, the word “serendipity” was used in many fields, often with a wide ...
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