Video: What will remain of these zero years
2024 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 12:26
Lists don't destroy culture, they create it. Pay attention to it, cultural production has always been full of lists. Lists of saints, treasures, weapons and medicinal plants. Think about how many books are full of lists. After all, who we are at Dissapore to escape from fashion. So help us to compile the list of what will remain of the decade that is about to close, speaking of gastrophanatism, it goes without saying. Well we have started.
BOOKS.
Fast Food Nation. The dark side of the global cheeseburger. Eric Schlosser. The Assayer, 382 p, € 9, 80.
Hundreds of millions of people eat hot dogs and hamburgers every day without wondering where they come from, how they are made, what effect they have on us. This book was the first to tell us about it. [2001]
Pots & test tubes. New horizons of molecular gastronomy. Hervé This. Gambero Rosso, 254 p. € 16, 00.
To dictate the rules in the kitchen are the exact sciences, chemistry and physics first of all. The Italians learned it from this book by the scientist-gastronomist Hervé This. Written with a rigorous but fun style, it was one of the most consulted texts even during the hate campaign towards molecular gastronomy recently launched by Striscia la Notizia. [2003]
You become cooks. The 1000 recipes of Allan Bay. Feltrinelli, 480 p. € 18.
As influential as Germaine Greer's Battle of the Sexes, the book celebrates one of life's greatest pleasures: cooking. A clear voice tells the recipes full of citations and contaminations, explains the cooking techniques, reveals the tricks to become a chef in the home kitchen. The beauty is that everything works. [2003]
TV PROGRAMS
Hell's Kitchen (Sky Vivo). Scottish chef Gordon Ramsey is a real bastard. “Get out, get off your ***, you indolent pig,” he yells at the little boys who are playing for a chance to win their restaurant. And instead of making a common front, they bow their heads and start stabbing each other again. Ramsey is the real Dr. House of Chefs. [2004]
Voilà (Raidue). Cooking quick recipes in real time, this was the idea of a very poor program: the presenter in front of the camera, period. The recipes lasted a few minutes, the cuts did not exist. The attraction of the party was Francesca Barberini, nice and not at all sulky ("Remove the skin from the pumpkin, okay? Um, I think I also removed the pulp. Well, now take the pulp of the pumpkin, IF IT REMAINS after removing the peel"). [2006]
Top Chef (Sky Uno). When Nigella cooks it's like watching author's porn, they said of Nigella Lawson, the voluptuous British TV star who has generated more sexual fantasies than anyone else in her country. Then came Padma Lakshmi. Top Chef, a classic talent show between chefs who compete for a jury of experts, has transformed her into the leading exponent of culinary mezzodivism. [2006]
MOVIE.
Sideways, traveling with Jack. Directed by Alexander Payne. With Paul Giamatti (Miles) and Thomas Church (Jack). Choosing for the key role of the film, Paul Giamatti, neither beautiful nor famous, two non-negotiable conditions in today's cinema, was a small masterpiece of courage. How to give a damn about Hollywood's infallible heroes. Then that joke. “No, if anyone orders Merlot, I'll leave. I DON'T drink any f ** k of Merlot! [2004].
Love recipes. Directed by Sandra Nittelbeck. With Martina Gedek (Martha) and Sergio Castellito (Mario). The film perfectly captures the extravagant character of many chefs (in the opening scene Martha threatens a complaining customer with a knife) by showing us the clash between Nordic and Italian cuisine. Memorable moment: when Martha closes herself in a cold room to cool the hot spirits. [2001]
Ratatouille. Directed by Brad Bird. An animated film that did justice to the chaos and vitality of a kitchen by astonishing us with the realism of the images. Eternal gratitude for the unforgettable figure of the food critic, Anton Ego, who decides the life or death of a restaurant. [2007]
DISHES
Black on Black. Tribute to Monk. By Massimo Bottura. Black enters the kitchen with a tribute to the king of bebop. From this moment on, as in the case of the great Thelonious, it is the future that chases Massimo Bottura. [2007]
Creamy parmesan and basil. By Quique Dacosta. Apart from Massimo Bottura (see “Parmigiano Reggiano in 5 textures and five temperatures”), few Italian chefs have understood the potential of our products. This essential and spectacular homage to Parmesan comes from Spain. [2005]
Caramelized onion with hot and cold parmesan. By Davide Oldani. In recent years, more than any other chef, Davide Oldani has been the prophet of no-frills chic. The caramelized onion is the symbol of his cuisine: the beauty and the good but which is practical and accessible. [2004]
APPLICATIONS FOR IPHONE
The Restaurants of Italy 2010. The Espresso guides. Find restaurants directly on the map, sort them by rating and average price. Find the best ever, in a region and province, save your favorites to have them at your fingertips when you need them. The restaurant card includes rating and description. It costs 8 euros. [2009]
20 minute meals. For quick recipes there is no better application than this one. Which has the advantage of tuning the connoisseurs to the unrivaled rate of coolness of Jamie Oliver's cuochetto. [2009]
Eataly. It is not a phenomenon but it is here because it is the first app to offer 1,000 recipes of traditional Italian cuisine. It is divided into four categories: Vegetable garden, meat, fish and sweets. There is also a section reserved for Italian vines with detailed explanations for wine-food combinations. It costs 2.99 euros. [2009]
Other things from the zero years that will remain. The foodblogs. The Pacojet. Eataly. The Musso ice cream makers. Apicious magazine …
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