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La Cucina Dell'Amore by Rompini, Omero, a rare photograph of the 1926 - gastronomy book.
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  • La Cucina Dell'Amore by Rompini, Omero, a rare example from the work of the 1926 - gastronomy book.
  • La Cucina Dell'Amore by Rompini, Omero, a rare example image of the 1926 - gastronomy book.
  • La Cucina Dell'Amore by Rompini, Omero, a rare example image of the 1926 - gastronomy book.
  • La Cucina Dell'Amore by Rompini, Omero, a rare photograph of the 1926 - gastronomy book.
  • La Cucina Dell'Amore by Rompini, Omero, a rare highlighted image of the 1926 - gastronomy book.
  • La Cucina Dell'Amore by Rompini, Omero, a rare example from the work of the 1926 - gastronomy book.
  • La Cucina Dell'Amore by Rompini, Omero, a rare example image of the 1926 - gastronomy book.
  • La Cucina Dell'Amore by Rompini, Omero, a rare example image of the 1926 - gastronomy book.
La Cucina Dell'Amore

Erotic satire meets truffled tabarin, straight from 1920s Sicily.

Rompini, Omero

La Cucina Dell'Amore
Manuale Culinario Afrodisiaco Per Gli Adulti Dei Due Sessi. Rigenerazione Fisica, Virilità E Giovinezza Recuperate Per L'Impiego Appropriato Dei Cibi, Condimenti, Aromi, Salse Ecc. Formule Storiche, Afrodisiaci Igienici Prodigiosi, Bibite E Profumi Eccitanti, Suggestivi E Rinvigoritori Sessuali.

1926, Catania, Libreria Tirelli Di F. Guaitolini

$80 USD

Overview

It’s hard not to grin at the irony: in 1926, deep in Catholic, conservative Sicily, Omero Rompini published La Cucina dell'Amore, a sultry culinary manual that reads like a wink across the dinner table.
Billed as an “aphrodisiac cookbook for adults of both sexes,” this untrimmed and possibly food-stained brossura is equal parts erotic mischief and kitchen satire.

Inside the book

Though the dishes are mostly feasible, their real purpose is literary and aesthetic: recipes are described in elaborate catalogues, with luxurious ingredients - lapwing eggs, oysters, foie gras, truffles, and the finest wines elevated into symbols of refinement and seduction.

Why La Fenice chose it

Because it’s a flamboyant ode to seduction and satire, spicing up 1920s Sicily with Parisian flair. A culinary masquerade where the kitchen flirts and the recipes wink.
Condition Report

pp. 211, [4].

Original printed wrappers, with significant stain (possibly (olive oil or other cooking material), passing onto the first 4 papers; spine showing the signs of age; otherwise in great condition. Untrimmed.

Dimensions (inches): 9.5 x 6 x 0.5
About the author

Though presented as an Italian work signed by “Doctor Omero Rompini,” the text is in fact a translation and adaptation of a French original, its authorship hidden behind pseudonyms.

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