La cucina di Andersen

La cucina di Andersen offers Nordic recipes, exotic recipes and imaginary recipes to take you on a journey through Hans Christian Andersen‘s fairy tales and the life of the Danish writer. Fairy creatures such as goblins let themselves be tempted by a small plate of milk and butter, while the poet is by nature a voracious being and in his tales it often happens that peas, buckwheat and thistles, endowed with their own distinct personality, are the protagonists of sweet and bitter events. Being eaten is ‘blissful death’, as a cucumber says, pining for a handsome cockerel and wanting nothing more than to be devoured by him: ‘If he came in here, if he ate me with all the leaves and the stalk!’. How can we have the courage, then, to eat what we consider food?Imaginative recipes, that would suit a writer of fairy tales because ‘He who is a poet can prepare a broth with a toothpick’.