What’s good about wholemeal pasta
Wholemeal pasta certainly has benefits, although sometimes one tends to exaggerate them.
It has more fibers than ordinary "white" dr...
02
Sep
Posts by Giulio Virduci
31
Aug
A pretty expenive Salt Cellar
The most valuable tableware article ever?
A salt cellar!
Well, perhaps it is more appropriate to speak of sculpture, despite the sm...
30
Aug
Carrots’colour
What color are carrots?
Well, the answer isn't that simple...
They can be orange, or yellow, white, purple, black...
The externa...
29
Aug
Pastafazool
When the stars make you drool,
just like pasta fazool,
That's amore!
I have always been amazed by the fact that one of the typical...
26
Aug
Arcimboldo’s dishes
One of the most eccentric artists of the sixteenth century was certainly the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Arcimboldo was fam...
05
Aug
Campi’s kitchen
This is what a professional kitchen must have looked like in 1580.
Two men quarter a calf, two women make pasta with a rolling pin, ...
03
Aug
The priest-chokers
Fancy some priest-chokers?
There are many types of pasta, with the most peculiar and imaginative names.
But perhaps no one like the...
26
Jul
Jefferson and his pasta-machine
There is a quality that perhaps only few people know about Thomas Jefferson: he was a gourmet, passionate about cooking and good food...
22
Jul
The Pasta eater
Little is known about the life of the Dutch painter Matthias Stomer.
We know he was born in 1600 near Utrecht, and that, passionate ...
20
Jul
Gastrophysics
As Professor Charles Spence from Oxford University has amply demonstrated, the taste of food depends not only on the sense of taste its...
