Peasant woman cooking by a fireplace

Peasant woman cooking by a fireplace,
Vincent van Gogh,  1885,
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)

This work was painted in Nuenen (Nederland) in late spring 1885, just after Van Gogh completed "The Potato Eaters" (Vincent van Gogh, 1885, 

Van Gogh Museum, 

Amsterdam, Netherlands), in the same dark hues that reminded the artist of "green soap" or a "good dusty potato, unpeeled, of course." 

Van Gogh was convinced that in the long run to portray peasants in their coarseness gives better results than introducing conventional sweetness.

Food stamps for Europe 2005

In 2005 Europa club suggested for stamps the theme of gastronomy. The Republic of San Marino presented two stamps designed by Franco Filanci and Paolo Candelari, one of these rappresents a basket of cooked bread in a different forms with the oven.

Edition date: 25 Aprile 2005
Edition run: 210.000

Price: 0,62 euro

Cook it Raw: a culinary project

playbill of Cook it Raw festival

Cook it Raw is an international culinary project which seeks to reinforce the links between cultures and countries through food, exploring a new concept of cuisine that is in tune with nature and encourages experimentation with energy-saving techniques. This workshop takes place every year in a different country, and hosts most of the well-known chefs from all over the word, as Scabin, Bottura, Barbot, Inaki, Adrià, Bosi, Chang, Nilson, Redzepi... 

苗族（Miao People）

The Miao are a linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China as one of the 55 official minority groups. The Miao is divided to two parts, one called Raw Miao, living primarily in southeast and northeast of Guizhou Province, northwest of Hunan Province, whose culture hasn’t been affected by Han Chinese’s. This region wasn’t included in Chinese territory until Ming Dynasty. The Ming government resorted to force several times in order to control it. The government even built great wall in South China to limit Miao people’s living area, isolating them from Han Chinese and the other part of Miao people. Until Qing Dynasty, these people began to contact with outside world, did business and exchanged culture.

"Raw meat eaters"

Esquimo people is the general name which defines indigenous people from different cultures, coming from the north of America and Asia. Literally the term “Esquimese” comes from the native language and it means “raw meat eaters”. But Esquimo people judge this definition as injurious and full of preconception. To obviate to this misunderstanding, Esquimo people ask to change the name of the population in “Inuit” wich means simply “men”.

prosciutto crudo San Daniele

To commemorate 500 years of italian Prosciutto di San Daniele here is a particular stamp with a curious illustration by Anna Maria Maresca.

Edition date: 26 june 2009

Edition run: 3.500.000 copies

Price: € 15,00

Deipnosofisti, dotti a banchetto

Scene dal Simposio dalla Tomba del Tuffatore

This book is a collection of conversation made during the banquet offered by the rich roman Larense(II sec AD).

Dominant themes are linked at the food in all possible form: for example on what was the best recipe for cook soup or perfect mix for wine and water.

"... he plays on homonymy of optòs, cooked and visible, and claimed to joke that the raw fish as you can see is optòs"

Laso da Ermione