"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
This recipe comes from Moira Buxton's Medieval Cooking Today, which in turn takes inspiration from the Harleian manuscript collection nr. 4016. Ingredients (serves 6 people): 3 partridges; a pinch of ground cloves; a pinch of ground mace; 1 litre of beef stock; 150 ml of red...
Every year around Christmas, Milan's Museo Diocesano temporarily hosts a masterpiece: last year, it was the predella from the Oddi Altarpiece, an Annunciation scene by Raphael, while in 2021 we had another Annunciation scene by Titian. This year, the initiative surpasses itself with one of...
This recipe is based on an XV-century English Manuscript called Harleian #279, and was expanded upon by Maggie Black's Medieval Cookery: Recipes and History. Ingredients: 1 kg of cubed pork; 1 liter of beef stock; 300 ml of almond milk (you know how to do this...
The new exhibition at Palazzo Reale, showcasing works by Patrizia Mussa, complements the inauguration of the new operatic season at La Scala, a theatre that makes a point of not doing anything people might like (if I see again the Dame aux Camélias I might...
Ingredients (serves 4 people): 300 grams of turnips cut into chunks; 190 grams of parsnips also cut into chunks; 1 golden onion, sliced; 1 litre of vegetable stock (see further ingredients, as I refuse to let you buy pre-prepared broth); 115 grams of coarse-ground almonds; ...
When the Richard-Ginori porcelain factory first announced they were having financial troubles, my mother declared a day of mourning, and we had to order pizza. They officially declared bankruptcy in 2013 after leaving a scar in the suburban area of southern Milan, where the 1870...
This recipe comes from Hannele Klemettilä's The Medieval Kitchen: A Social History with Recipes. She's a Finnish historian and medievalist living in New York. Her recipe in turn is taken from Ulla Lehtonen's Ullan luonnonyrtit : luonnon hyötykasvien keruu- ja käyttöopas (literally: Ulla's natural herbs:...
Kate Crawford and Ivladan Joler present us a monumental work, through the temporary exhibition Calculating Empires currently on display at the Osservatorio Fondazione Prada (Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II). It's going to stay on for two months only (it closes on January, 29th to be precise)...
Another recipe from Thomas Dawson’s The Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin (1594), gives us a nice easy pie that I'll never be able to make. Maybe you'll have better luck. Beware: this recipe takes three days (which is why I cannot do it: I'll do...
All'Osservatorio della Fondazione Prada in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele a Milano è stata inaugurata da poco una mostra chiamata Calculating Empires (Imperi Calcolatori, o Imperi del Calcolo), a cura di Kate Crawford e Vladan Joler. Kate Crawford è l'autrice di libri come Né intelligente né artificiale: Il...
