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Spaghetti for Italians, Knives and
Forks for All are banned
in Futurist Manifesto
on Cooking
Marinetti, father of Futurist art, literature and drama, has just issued from Rome a manifesto launching Futurist cooking, according to word received yesterday in Paris. Practically everything connected with the traditional pleasures of the gourmet will be swept away.
No more spaghetti for the Italians.
No more knives and forks.
No more after-dinner speeches will be tolerated by the new cult.
Details of the manifesto, published in the «Comœdia», give the principal feature of the new cuisine as a rapid succession of dishes which contain but one mouthful or even a fraction of a mouthful.
In fact, in the ideal Futuristic meal, several dishes will be passed beneath the nose of the diner in order to excite his curiosity or to provide a suitable contrast, and such supplementary courses will not be eaten at all.
«Since everything in modern civilization tends toward elimination of weight, and increased speed, the cooking of the future must conform to the ends of evolution. The first step would
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