Catholic Film Festival

The International Catholic Film Festival, under the High Patronage of the Pontifical Council for Culture, is open now. Please download the application form at: www.mirabiledictu-icff.com and send your film for evaluation.

Make people know more about faith through your film. Mirabile Dictu, International Catholic Film Festival arrives at its 7th edition and is a reference for the Catholic visual arts. Short films, Documentaries,  Motion films are accepted.

A film is a very powerful tool for evangelization.

In the nineteenth century a host of books was published on the subject of the use of the remains in the kitchen. Their content would be useful today to many, especially in the US, where there is a costume that scandalizes the Europeans: the “doggy bag”, the remains of a lunch or dinner taken away from the restaurant. Irreverent habit for a European, but that does not offend anyone in the United States.
Well, after the Christmas holidays, there are many remains in the fridge: it is as if we were facing a mountain of “doggy bags”.
So, do not let there these goodies, but learn the art of using them, offering them a second life. Continue reading The art of using the remains (Part I): A recipe →

Posted by Liana Marabini
A lot of restaurants host paintings, sculptures and other art objects. It is a beautiful way to help young artists to expose or to show ancient photos with celebrities.

I saw a place in Italy, in a beautiful area full of vineyards (Monagardino, in the province of Bologna) where there is an excellent restaurant, “La Grotta”. There you will find some of the most remarkable design objects, by authors like Meret Oppenheim, Giacomo Balla and Marcel Breuer.

Five generations of extraordinary restaurateurs, wonderful typical bolognese cuisine with some remarkable specialities as the “crescentine” with bolognese antipasti, tagliatelle with ragu, tortellini in brodo or the rice cake, simply divine.

Food that is art in itself.

http://www.lagrotta1918.it

Posted by Liana Marabini

Unfaithful and ungrateful

The crisis of the pork in France is said to be caused by religious reasons. 

The gradual islamisation of the country, where the halal shelves are more and more incumbent in the supermarkets, while the school canteens eliminate the pork dishes from their menus,Continue reading The Pig, the Art, the Pork →

Cellar “Tortoise shell”: A dialogue between nature, art and wine. A journey into a work of art related to the wine, authored by Arnaldo Pomodoro

During the summer wanderings, if you visit Italy, don’t skip Umbria, and pop in Montefalco: it’s worth it. You can visit a singular winery, that is unique. It will be an opportunity to buy a few bottles of Sagrantino di Montefalco, an extraordinary wine that supports aging.

Tenuta Castelbuono, 30 hectares in the municipalities of Bevagna and Montefalco, is part of the ambitious project of the Lunelli family, three generations at the helm of the Cantine Ferrari. Continue reading The turtle and the wine →

The “Lard Fortress” from Dârjiu, where wealth is measured in number of nails for hanging meat. Explanation: The church was converted into a refrigerator.

In Romania, in the region of Transylvania, there is a little town, or rather a village, called Dârjiu. It is inhabited by a majority of Hungarian speaking people: This is a normal thing in that region.
The village hides a treasure that has become in recent years a true tourist attraction. The Unitarian Church in the village is not only a UNESCO heritage but also… is home to hundreds of years of local food supplies. Continue reading Art & Lard →

After a first initiative, ahead of its time, with the poster artist Jean Carlu in 1924, Baron Philippe de Rothschild waited until 1945 to finally establish a tradition that would henceforth become the visual hallmark of Mouton Rothschild. Continue reading Painting for the wine labels – Part 1 →

Once upon a time the Pontiffs, the Medicis, the d’Este,  the early Italian banks were exquisite patrons of the arts.Italy alone owns more than the half of the artistic patrimony of the world and 70% of it was created thanks to the Catholic Church, that encouraged and financed the artists. Without the Church, Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo were buried in the oblivion as unknown masons, wall house painters or obscure artists. Continue reading Food and corporate art →

Human beings are animals who make beautiful their food.
Food being beautiful is one of it’s natural appeals. I admire those food artists, authors of ephemeral art that plays with food to create delicious compositions. Continue reading Edible beauty →

The story of still-life painting started in Ancient Greece when Zeuxis painted raisins which were so realistically reproduced that birds would try to pilfer them.

Continue reading Still life and “gastronomic fetishism” →