Cook with the Uffizi
January 14 2021
Picture: Uffizi
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence will be teaming up with some famous Italian chefs to produce a series of videos for their website and Facebook channel. Uffizi da Mangiare, or 'The Uffizi on a Plate', will see chefs take well known masterpieces from the gallery's painting collection and transfer them into dishes. This includes works by the likes of Caravaggio, Willem van Aelst and Jacopo Chimenti. The series begins this Sunday 17th January 2021.
The gallery's director Eike Schmidt is quoted as saying:
The idea came to us in these Covid times. We were talking to chefs from restaurants in Florence because they want to know when we will reopen and when the tourists might start returning. Quite a few of them turned out to be interested in art. They were enthusiastic when we came up with the idea... For some, it could be a little more abstract – they might be inspired by the colour of the composition.
