Most people think of pasta and pizza as being Italian cuisine but there is so much more to Italian dishes that were influenced by Italy’s regions and their unique climates. CelebrityChef/Best Selling Author of The Basic Art of Italian Cooking explores the beginings of Italian cuisine.
The Italians are vibrant, artistic, expressive and passionate on life.Basically, everything is into art! When talk about food, drama or art, festivals and each italian is one great artist.
Us Brits it seems are in for a treat as the BBC are planning to start filming next month on a lavish new costume drama – but not the usual Austen, Bronte, Elliot or Dickens fiction which we’ve all come to enjoy on dark winter evenings, but a true story based on the diaries of Anne Lister of Halifax, Yorkshire.
Taking Venice as his theme, Kessler flooded the courtyard of the hotel with water dyed blue to resemble the sea. Magnificent painted backdrops provided the setting, and the entire scene was illuminated by 400 Venetian lamps. His two dozen guests sat inside a huge silk lined gondola bobbing on the “canal,” surrounded by 12,000 carnations and an enormous number of roses. They are food prepared by 15 master chefs and served by waiters dressed as gondoliers.
Caravaggio the artist is admired and adored by many, but what of the man? No artist ever tore at his own flesh more than Caravaggio, it is self-mortification on canvass.
The great architect le Corbusier designed houses according to harmonic rules in taking into account man’s proportions. His measures include the Golden Ratio and refer to Fibonacci Number.
Barolo wine is a wine with a great taste but also great history. Celebrity Chef Maria Liberati travels to the small province of Cuneo in Piedmont, Italy to discover more about this crown jewel.
From Hero or Villain: More Prisoners of Eternity.
These 10 vodka flavors are so outrageous it’s hard to believe they actually exist. But they do!
From Honduras to Hershey, the story of chocolate.
