Ono: futuristic coffee

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"Peeled Salome Sausage (a traditional Italian sausage) is stewed in double Espresso followed by a drop of cologne";"Traditional coffee blends are eliminated to experiment with new blends, as recommended by futuristic chefs including Jarro M. Aincave."

These two recipes and recipes for coffee come from an article called "Futuristic Recipes" by Italian poet Marinetti, one of the founders of Futurism.

Futurists are mostly artists and poets who love industrialization, speed and mechanical civilization, and hate everything classical in monuments, ruins and museums. Marinetti likes to call himself the "caffeine of Europe."

But futurists do not stop at expressing opinions on art fields such as painting, poetry, sculpture, and music. They also make radical suggestions on everyday life fields such as cooking, clothing, and interior design.

Italy is the birthplace of futurism, and futurists first have to attack two Italian food traditions. The first is pasta. In the Futuristic Eating Manifesto,"eliminating pasta" was proposed as a top priority, on the grounds that people who devour pasta cause visceral discomfort and are more likely to induce human characteristics such as "weakness, pessimism, old-fashioned inaction, and neutralism."

In the futurist scenario, pasta could be replaced by other beneficial dietary ingredients, with flowers, tropical fruits, raw eggs, coffee, cloves, and so on.

Coffee is second only to pasta in the Italian diet. Futurists look upon coffee as a source of mental activity and energy, and it has been manipulated many times. The sausage is stewed in Espresso with cologne to give it a mesmerizing aroma. For futurists, the visual and olfactory pleasures of food are far more important than whether it tastes good or not. We can imagine that "new blend coffee" is probably an experiment in spice collection, and its taste and appearance have nothing to do with coffee.

Futurism was active for a short time in history, only from 1907 to about ten years after World War I. The futurists 'enthusiasm for war and nationalism eventually led to their complete rejection by the world.

Serves them right for treating coffee like that.