The Italian Pumpkin Experience
Where art meets gastronomy, the quintessence of italianess arises.
Endowed with innate beauty, the pumpkin, a vegetable sculpture, a ceramic, an object that initially had eminently decorative characteristics among the elites, and then entered the menus, with counterpoint flavors that would have anticipated the nouvelle cuisine.
Bizarre and colorful, pumpkins are a typical ingredient of Italian cuisine from north to south as well as bubbly home décor during the fall season.
With 5 Italian types of squash, all 5 senses will be enhanced on this journey.
Pumpkins were originally a novelty from the new world, cheerful, imposing and prodigious: an extraordinarily pictorial subject. Many incredible Italian artists painted with this vegetable such as Vincenzo Campi, Giuseppe Arciboldi to Bartolomeo Bimbi. Pumpkins eventually entered the food scene with counterpoint flavors that indulged tastes.
Dark green color skin, yellow orange pulp, singular shapes only nature can create. A visual and culinary experience of italianess is not be missed!
From the renowned pumpkin Piedmontese gastronomic tradition, passing by the one found in the popular tuscan taverns dishes, to the most famous one from Naples (Cucozza zuccarina), experience the quintessence of Italian pumpkins with Quintessenza.
L’arciboldo \ Giuseppe Arciboldi
Many other painters, both contemporary and later, have tried to imitate his works, but nobody has managed to overcome their originality ... His paintings, with emperors and traders with eyes, nose and mouth made by drawing vegetables and fruits…
