Thursday, July 02, 2009

The Original Narcofood

From the Italian Futurist Cookbook, published in 1932, a few choice recipes:

Drum Roll of Colonial Fish: Poached mullet marinated in milk, liqueur, capers, and red pepper and stuffed with date jam, banana, and pineapple. "It will then be eaten to a continuous rolling of drums."

Words in Liberty Sea Platter: A watermelon half at sail across a sea of endive, with a tiny captain sculpted from Dutch cheese commanding a crew of calves' brains cooked in milk. "The sea and the ship are sprinkled with cinnamon or red pepper."

The Excited Pig: "A whole salami, skinned, is served upright on a dish containing some very hot black coffee mixed with a good deal of eau de Cologne."

White and Black: "A one-man show on the internal walls of the Stomach consisting of free-form arabesques of whipped cream sprinkled with lime-tree charcoal. Contra the blackest indigestion. Pro the whitest teeth."

2 comments:

J Blood said...

You know I told Juliana about Narcofood and we both use the expression to this day!

The funny thing is I associate it with the utterly unappetizing moldy smell of the Lausanne basement location of Narcofood SA.

terrimoto said...

I associate it with strange food combinations - like steak with jello sauce - and provocative items - like the penis cake.