Uffizi masterpieces become dishes to taste. New videos kick off

Art and cuisine meet at the Uffizi: starting January 17, 2021, every Sunday, a new series of short videos will be launched on the Uffizi Galleries ’ Facebook page, in which chefs and personalities from the world of food and wine will interpret a painting from the Florentine museum’s collections through their recipes. Uffizi da mangiare, this is the title chosen for the new video series, thus intends to transform masterpieces of art history into dishes that can actually be enjoyed.

Throughout the video, therefore, recipes inspired by the ingredients depicted in the chosen work will be proposed. Particularly in still life, the link between painting and food and wine is strong.

Among the chefs and restaurateurs involved, Fabio Picchi (patron of Cibrèo in Florence) will reinterpret Giacomo Ceruti’s Boy with Fish; Dario Cecchini (butcher and restaurateur from Panzano in Chianti) will offer his version of the Dispensa with Cask, Game, Meat and Pottery by Jacopo Chimenti known as L’Empoli; Michelin-starred chef Valeria Piccini (of Da Caino restaurant in Montemerano (Grosseto)) will offer her own recipe from a Still Life still by Empoli, and her Michelin-starred colleague Marco Stabile (L’ora d’Aria in Florence)will confront Giorgio De Chirico’s Peppers and Grapes. Works by Caravaggio, Felice Casorati, Giovanna Garzoni will also be reinterpreted.

“Our intention is to create an even closer link with the museum’s works, placing them in a current and vital context,” said Uffizi Galleries Director Eike Schmidt. “Painted and cooked food thus meet on a plane of truth that stimulates the viewer’s attention and brings to the fore the deep and unexpected meanings hidden in the scenes and still lifes created by the painters.”

Pictured: Giacomo Ceruti known as il Pitocchetto, Boy with Basket of Fish (Florence, Pitti Palace)

Uffizi masterpieces become dishes to taste. New videos kick off

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