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Screening of the film “Quanto Basta” (As Needed), directed by Francesco Falaschi, 2018, 92 min

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5th Annual Week of Italian Cuisine in the World
Screening of the film “Quanto Basta” (As Needed), directed by Francesco Falaschi, 2018, 92 min

Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
Monday, November 16th from 6pm-10pm (Central Time)

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The “Week of Italian Cuisine 2020” begins with a special screening linked to a special birthday. November 16, 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the Mediterranean Diet in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Happy Birthday, Mediterranean Diet! You keep us healthy!

The film Quanto Basta (As Needed), set in Tuscany, narrates of food, cooking, and friendship. It focuses on chef Arturo who, because of a legal entanglement caused by his anger issues, is assigned to charity work in the kitchen with young people with autism. Here he meets Guido, a young man with Asperger syndrome, who is passionate about cooking and Arturo becomes his mentor. While traveling and cooking together, Arturo and Guido embrace friendship and reinforce the philosophy of cooking based on simplicity and taste. The film is also a homage to food writer Pellegrino Artusi and his Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well (1891), especially Artusi’s recipe # 506 Baccalà alla Fiorentina (Salt Cod Florentine Style) that Guido makes to enter a cooking competition in Tuscany. The title Quanto Basta (As Needed) refers to the use of “q.b.” (“quanto basta” / “as needed”) to indicate measurements in many recipes, a very inexact concept involving a cook’s personal discretion, that initially proves hard to grasp for Guido. In Italian with English subtitles. Free and open to all. Click here for the trailer.

Click here and enter the code J4R5L9SXGUAK to view the film.

  • Organizzato da: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago