Pontormo’s table. Recipes from great chefs classic ingredients and artistic inspirations
€21,00In April of 2014, world-renowned chefs from twenty of Tuscany’s top
restaurants and hotels – as well as a clergyman from the Certosa of
Florence – arrived at Palazzo Strozzi in the heart of Florence to visit
the exhibition Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism. This
singular experience led to a publishing project, sponsored by the Palazzo
Strozzi Foundation and intended to further celebrate the exhibition. Art
historian Ludovica Sebregondi pored over the painter’s diary to reveal his
almost obsessive habit of recording what he ate and drank; Italian food
journalist Annamaria Tossani asked the chefs to create recipes based on
the diary and paintings of the artist Pontormo. For the chefs, the diary’s
most important lesson corresponds to the old motto, “Eat well using
simple, local ingredients.”
2014, cm 21 × 26, pp. 134, illustrazioni a colori, hardcover
ISBN 978-88-6394-071-8