Pasta and bastard
The publication describes pasta, its history, its varieties, the competition of different types of pasta. And it’s also a book about the place the pasta took in economics, culture, art, even religion. Pasta as a phenomenon of national culture and globalism, as a product of culinary and design art, communicates its own atmosphere and visual language.
The book consists of five parts (chapters), each of which reveals a certain aspect of pasta history.
Format: 120×230 mm Cover: Otabind with Paper valves: Biotop natural white 100 g/m2
Chapter 1 — The history of the pasta and its changing role in Italy’s cooking tradition
Chapter 2 — Catalogue of Basic Pasta Forms
Chapter 3 — Chapter on the industrial production, distribution and industrialization of pasta
Chapter 4 is a chapter on the attitude to paste from love to hatred. There are two texts facing and arguing about pastapharianism (Macary Monster Joke Religion) and a futuristic manifesto, «Long of pasta!»
The book ' s palitary consists of six colours selected on the basis of popular coloring of household pasta products.
Chapter 5 is a pasta in art. Impact on literature, cinema, fashion and design
