Samuel Taylor Coleridge and spaghetti
By David Winner - March 12, 2012
I won’t sue!
The Observer today calls ‘Al Dente’ “something like a fusion of Coleridge's Table Talk and Marinetti's The Futurist Cookbook, peopled with eccentric film-makers, anorexic saints and wafer-making nuns.”
In the preface to ‘Table Talk’ publisher James Murray saidof Coleridge that his "intellectual power in living discourse struck me at once as unique and transcendant … Who could always follow to the turning-point his long arrow-flights of thought? Who could fix those ejaculations of light, those tones of a prophet, which at times have made me bend before him as before an inspired man?”
Marinetti, on the other hand, was a fascist fellow-traveller who hated spaghetti.
Here’s the review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/11/al-dente-david-winner-review
The Observer today calls ‘Al Dente’ “something like a fusion of Coleridge's Table Talk and Marinetti's The Futurist Cookbook, peopled with eccentric film-makers, anorexic saints and wafer-making nuns.”
In the preface to ‘Table Talk’ publisher James Murray saidof Coleridge that his "intellectual power in living discourse struck me at once as unique and transcendant … Who could always follow to the turning-point his long arrow-flights of thought? Who could fix those ejaculations of light, those tones of a prophet, which at times have made me bend before him as before an inspired man?”
Marinetti, on the other hand, was a fascist fellow-traveller who hated spaghetti.
Here’s the review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/11/al-dente-david-winner-review
