Monkey Town chef Coleman Lee Foster derives some inspiration for their menu from The Futurist Cookbook, a culinary manifesto penned in 1932 by F.T. Marinetti, which prescribes such things as blowing from a trumpet between bites of beef or most famously, to avoid eating pasta, as it dulls the senses and slows the body: The Futurist version of death. Food, it was thought, should be about a pure aesthetic experience, an explosion of the senses (i.e. one should not eat for nutrition - how pedestrian! There are pills for that…) It was also about juxtaposing unexpected elements with food.
This Saturday, Monkey Town presents “Eat Art,” which they describe as “an immersive culinary experiment based on the neurological phenomenon of synesthesia (http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/) and inspired by Daniel Spoerri’s Eat Art—which encompassed sculpture, performance, and the actual opening (and closing) of several restaurants.”
An 11 course tasting menu, inspired by 11 texts, to be read live:
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Amuse sized rye bread, shredded pork and fig sandwich
Gastroporn by Alexander Cockburn
Seared Tuna Salad, Roasted Potato, Tarragon Aioli, Black Olive Puree
The Accidental Connoisseur by Lawrence Osborne
Truffled Duck Torchon, Sage Mustard Demi
Down and Out in London and Paris by George Orwell
Baguette with roasted garlic
Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana
Seared Scallop, pepto bismal vinaigrette, coffee paint
Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin
Cucumber and Tomato Water
Dante and the Lobster by Samuel Beckett
Seared Lobster roll with mustard, goat cheese bisque
Manifesto of Futurist Cuisine by F.T. Marinetti
False egg of carrot and cauliflower
Fat Substitutes: A Taste of the Future by Marian Segal
Lamb carpaccio, arugula, smoked pork fat flan, sweet potato dust
Tang Dynasty by Eric Banks
Long Island duck breast, local chanterelle puree, hazelnut thyme sauce
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Cake
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