The day of Wednesday 26 June of the Artusiana Festival of Forlimpopoli opens at 7pm at Casa Artusi with the aperitif in the courtyard curated by Casa Artusi which sees the presentation of the book “The Romagna of restaurants: menu stories” (Ed. Moderna 2024) which traces the history of Romagna gastronomy through restaurant menus. The intent of Menù Associati (International Historical Menu Association), in collaboration with ‘CheftoChef emiliaromagnacuochi’ was to create a story illustrated by 200 menus as the first release of a series that includes a similar intervention for Emilia.
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A service to open a debate on the future of Romagna gastronomy by analyzing the history of ‘real eating’ which uses the archives of the few menu collectors. A story that confirms the decisive contribution of sommeliers in the birth of the great Romagna restaurant industry such as Gianfranco Bolognesi, Tarcisio Raccagni and Paolo Teverini and which includes the relationships between the Romagna restaurateurs and Gualtiero Marchesi, the first great creator of modern Italian cuisine. Speakers with Maurizio Campiverdi and Franco Chiarini, authors of the book, include Paolo Teverini, chef patron of the restaurant of the same name in Bagno di Romagna, Giacinto Rossetti, chef consultant and former patron of Il Trigabolo in Argenta and Piero Meldini, scholar of gastronomic traditions and writer. Followed by tasting.
At 8pm Piazza Pompilio comes alive with show cooking by Matteo Cameli, chef of “Al Vecchio Convento” in Portico di Romagna who has worked as a chef for over thirty years. Every year in July it organizes an International Chefs’ Festival which sees the presence of many chefs from all parts of Europe. Its cuisine is based on meats, vegetables, fruits and herbs from the area. At 7.30pm the Piazza Fratti Arena will be synonymous with Groovemates in concert, while at 8pm the Fossato della Rocca will be the theater for the children’s show “Paggio e Paggetto” and at 9.45pm for the Just me concert with Marco Franchini. At 9.30 pm at the Archaeological Museum “T. Aldini” the guided tour “At the court of Battistina” is scheduled, a guided and animated tour of the walkways of the Rocca Albornoziana, organized by Atlantide soc. coop. Reservation and a participation fee of 5 euros are required, for information and reservations: 337 118 [email protected].
Every evening at Artusiana
Casa Artusi hosts the exhibition “Gusto! Italians at the table: 1970-2050” by M9 – Museo del ‘900 Venezia Mestre edited by Massimo Montanari and Laura Lazzaroni. A journey to tell how the relationship between Italians and food has changed profoundly in recent decades, with a decisive paradigm shift between the traditional image of national cuisine and an increasingly complex, segmented and contradictory relationship of a country that is is transforming its habits, consumption and social composition. Appointment also with “Discover Casa Artusi”: every evening from 6pm to 11pm there are guided tours of the Church of the Servi, the Gastronomic Library, the Archive of Pellegrino Artusi’s personal correspondence and Artusi’s studio, the Cooking School and above all the museum spaces dedicated to Pellegrino Artusi, unanimously considered the father of modern Italian cuisine. Extraordinary evening openings at the Church of Carmine, a small architectural jewel from the 17th century and a treasure chest of art treasures, normally closed to the public. On the occasion of the festival and thanks to the collaboration of the Parish of San Ruffillo and the parishioners it will be possible to visit it and appreciate its beauty .
There is also the “Ritrovamenti” exhibition, a personal exhibition by Cristian Cimatti, a visionary and difficult to label sculptor, Cristian Cimatti – who from 2020 to 2023 was also curator of the “Roccambolesca” event in Meldola – transforms ceramics, metals and organic parts into ‘pungent’ works, which propose different points of view and arouse contrasting sensations in the observer. The vault of the Fabbri Pharmacy, Piazza Garibaldi hosts the “Ontological exhibition of the friends of art association of Forlimpopoli”. The walkways of the Rocca Albornoziana host “The family trees of the families of Forlimpopoli” curated by the Amici della Pieve Association. Every evening “A casa di Paola” is open in via Costa 22, an original and versatile space in which you can breathe the atmospheres of others times. A place of art that is at the same time an exhibition gallery and an old-time workshop. The “Bertozzi House Museum” also opens its doors – the Art and Documentation Center in via Massi 58 where the sculptor Mario Bertozzi was born and lived there until the age of 92 – and the Guzzi Brunelli Collection, the Moto Guzzi museum in via Roma 32.
