The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC present a lecture by David Gariff, Senior Lecturer, National Gallery of Art. This event is part of the “First Week of Italian Cuisine in the World“.
The presentation deals with much of the history of Italian cuisine and food going back to Roman times. It explores the major Italian cookbooks by Maestro Martino di Como, Bartolomeo Platina, Cristoforo di Messiburgo, Bartolomeo Scappi, extending to the Futurists and beyond.
Promoting Italy’s culinary tradition abroad as one of the most distinctive features of Brand Italy. This is the aim of the ‘First Week of Italian Cuisine in the World‘ initiative launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to provide continuity to the themes successfully developed by Expo Milano 2015.
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LOCATION
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven St, NW
Washington, DC 20008
DAVID GARIFF
David Gariff is a senior lecturer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and an adjunct professor of art history at The Catholic University of America. A specialist in modern and contemporary art and the art of the Italian Renaissance, he has taught art history at the University of Wisconsin, Cleveland State University, Trinity University, and the University of Maryland, College Park, where he received his Ph.D. He was a graduate fellow in Italy at the University of Florence and the University of Pisa, and a Fulbright and Kress Foundation fellow at the Institute for the History of Lombard Art in Milan. David has lectured and written widely on topics related to modern art, film, and the Italian Renaissance; his book The World’’s Most Influential Painters and the Artists They Inspired explores the theme of artistic influence and inspiration in Western painting.