Worldwide Ambassadors of Italian Gastronomy
The menus presented within this area of the website are members of a wealthy assortment of over 4700 pieces. Academia Barilla acquired the entire collection from Livio Cerini di Castegnate. a famous culinary scholar, and the wife Wilma. The gathering is definitely an remarkable tool for that study and promotion of Italian gastronomic culture. Actually, most from the collection (over 2.000 menus ) is devoted to Italian dining. You will find Italian menus that go as far back to the start of the 1800s. A few of the less available works within the collection originate from individual Italian States, just before unification. From Piedmont, there's an very rare menu from the celebration from the Albertine Statute. There's also menus in the Whist circle, and many more from parties of political occasions from the 1800s.
The menus representing Milan and also the Lombard range from most significant restaurants from the 1800s, noble and middle-class families, and political circles such as the Associazione Patriottica. You can even find menus celebrating the Worldwide Fair of 1906, the outlet from the Sempione tunnel, and famous hotels and restaurants like Cova. Eden. Savini and also the mythic Rebecchino. You will find splendid menus from finish-of-the-century Venice, including one celebrating the discharge of D’Annunzio’s book La Nave. We have two unique menus in the Duke of Abruzzi’s 1900 North Star expedition. a journey for the North Pole.
You will find menus in the House of Savoy. dated 1871. At that time, Florence was still being the main city of Italia. The menus trace the careers of Umberto I after which Vittorio Emanuele II. You will find colonial and wartime menus which include a distinctive menu autographed by Gabriele d’Annunzio on October 18,1919 throughout the occupation of Fiume. The gathering of Fascist memorabilia and menus is very special much like the menus in the Palazzo Venezia or Hotel Excelsior in Rome. And, obviously, the menus in the many official lunches of Italian and foreign condition ministers.
Another major subsection from the menu collection is devoted to French cuisine. France was the very first country to consider and spread using recption menus. We've examples in the Belle Époque, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco periods. Most of the menus represent important artists from the period: Abbema. Arnoux. Besnard. Bernard. Bloch. Cheret. Cocteau. Domin. Gerbault. Gilbert. Loviot. Milliere. Mucha. Neumnt. Redon. Robida. Willette. Von Stuck and much more. Many are signed yet others actually have a dedication. You will find military menus from various regiments from The First World War, obama from the Republic, and famous restaurants in Paris and throughout France (a few are signed by Escoffier). The audience of menus and invitations in the Bon Bock circle really sticks out because of its size and totality. These works specified for by the most crucial artists from the last two decades from the 1800s.
The gathering includes 44 sample menus collected by Captain Medici da Marignano and also the historic 165-piece assortment of Alberto Cougnet. a physician born in Nice once the city was still being under Italian control. Cougnet loved to consume, authored many cookbooks and picked up menus. His boy, Armando, was the founding father of an italian man , sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport as well as Giro d'Italia. Additionally towards the Italian and French menus, you will find almost 400 menus using their company Countries in europe. There's also numerous menus produced as advertisements as well as menus focused on journeys around the great cruise motorboats, or planes and trains.
Other menus within the collection are bound in monographs like Le menu - Une histoire illustre de 1751 à nos jours. by Philippe Mordaq, Il menu tra storia erectile dysfunction arte. or E per finire frutta cotta. in the Royal Theater in Parma in 2002. The dimensions and excellence of the Academia Barilla menu collection is very impressive. The menus offer details about design and style, along with the evolution of taste or esthetics during the period of time. The gathering contains interesting culinary information too. The menus reflect altering tastes and social customs .
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