Ricettario Immaginato - Giosue Fiorentino And The Other Prisoners Of Baracca B98

Annarita Caputo Leone Contini

Kunstverein Amsterdam, ISBN 9789490629199,
Pb, 192 pgs, 17 x 24cm
Acqn. 29382
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£21.95
This book's contents are based on two handwritten notebooks containing recipes collected by Giosue Fiorentino between November 1917 and January 1918, while interned in a German prison camp. He was captured along with other Italian soldiers during the Battle of Caporetto. The imprisoned young men, exhausted and malnourished, took solace in compiling recipe books in a reinvention of a community tradition. By writing down the fondly remembered recipes from family feasts, they projected a convivial act of resistance into the future, hoping for a time of peace. This is the first time that the recipes from the notebooks are transcribed and published in both Italian and English.