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Flatland vs Spaceland ... differences in the pot

I wanted to post something that spoke of D ifferenze , the theme of the episode of Parallel broadcast today at 19:00 via web on Radio Radicchio, where I'll be very funny host of Eleonora and Giulia.

A theme that I think fits perfectly with the kitchen, or at least my kitchen: I love it to play on differences in color, flavor, intensity, texture, temperature, cooking ...
Playing with all these elements is not only fun to cook (and I really enjoy it) but it makes it more enjoyable and exciting to eat what is proposed.

I have also written in ' last post as I think it's important to enjoy what you eat, and all these differences, the presence / absence, or increasing contrasts of flavor

is why the act of thinking differently even an ordinary vegetable soup, transforms it into something meaningful and with a value different. Offer it becomes an opportunity to talk about what led us to present it well, adding that aspect friendly knows that both characterize the Mediterranean diet.


This time I thought of starting a recipe from what I have in the fridge, or a food that inspires me or that I am in some stores, or a smell, a smell, a taste ... but a memory, that of a book that I loved it.
comes to mind because I do not, pedaling to the office, the thoughts have flown to this book, but the fact is that the story and the characters gave me no respite for the whole day I had to tell ... in the pot;)

The book in question is Flatland, written in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott. A fantastic story, beautifully, that starting from the description of a world impossible, absurd, with 2 dimensions, populated by beings plans (triangles, squares, pentagons, ...), get to show our inability to accept a different point of view from ours.


In the book, the character narrator, a square, after having vainly tried to explain to the inhabitants of LineLandia (a linear world to a single dimension) the existence of the second dimension , discovers that there is a world completely different from his, the world of Spaceland, a world with a third dimension .

In the book the protagonist tries in vain to make known the existence of higher worlds to his fellow citizens, and will have more luck trying to imagine the vision of a world in 4 or 5 sizes alla Sfera.

Alla fine verrà preso per pazzo, eretico perfino ed imprigionato a vita. Un destino d'incomprensione che toccò anche ad Abbott.
Sarà solo con l'enuciazione della teoria della relatività che si parlerà di dimensioni superiori alla terza e che il libro di Abbott verrà riscoperto.

Nessuna ricetta, come dicevo. Infatti per questo piatto mi sono limitato a trasformare la classica zuppa di verdure in un piatto dove tutte le verdure sono tagliate a fettine o rondelle o filetti, proprio come i personaggi di FlatLandia.

Ed a spezzare, ad irrompere in questo mondo piatto, e bidimensionale, a poached egg, the Sphere.
Well not really a sphere, but that was my first attempt at a poached egg, I felt so much Julie Powell when he tried to do in his Julie & Julia: I ran away from all the parties and not wanted to learn to shut up himself.

the end was more like a flower to a sphere, also because of the intense color from the saffron that won I thought I would melt in the cooking water.

But the difference between the two worlds we see the same, or not??! ;)