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...second manifesto on "Futurist food" (TIME, Jan. 12) was issued in Rome last week by famed Filippo Tomaso Marinetti, poet, millionaire, founder of Futurist Art, friend of Dictator Mussolini...
Your Jan. 12 issue reported a statement by Filippo Tomaso Marinetti, citizen of Italy and disciple of Fascism, inveighing against spaghetti and other wheat paste products as inducing "torpor and pessimism." Signer Marinetti proposed to reduce the consumption of macaroni, spaghetti and kindred foods whose popularity now necessitates the importation of considerable quantities of wheat, as well as the finished product, chiefly from America. His plan involved the substitution of synthetic foods, on the basis that macaroni products are not "sufficiently dynamic" for hardy patriots...
...Marinetti - a dangerous thing to do, for the Founder of Futurism was a member of Benito Mussolini's first Fascist council, is still a close friend of the Dictator...
Conscientiously the English correspond ent of the London Morning Post filed an objective report of Futurist Marinetti's doings, added his personal conviction : "No man or movement can unwind spaghetti from the heart of Italy...
...Futurist Marinetti's recipe for carneplastico, "an original dish suggesting the Italian landscape": Surround a tall up right cylinder of minced veal stuffed with eleven vegetables by a ring of sausages draped between large balls of minced chicken. Crown the whole with golden honey...