Even though he's not an artist, Massimo Bottura is someone who has influenced this project and aspects of my life ever since I first heard of him a couple of years ago. This interview from 2015 shows some of the reasons I find him inspirational in the way he talks about food and art.
Massimo Bottura Interview
You can tell from the way he references artists such as Rembrandt, Titian and Van Gogh, alongside musicians like Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground that he's a person who understands and embraces this link between food and art. While he claims to be an artisan rather than an artist the way in which he creates and plates his food show the knowledge and inspiration he's gained from these sources.
In the documentary 'chef's table' he also talks a lot about food and the way it has influenced his relationships with the people most important to him in his life. Whether it's his Grandma teaching him how to make fresh pasta, the camaraderie between him and the friends he works with or how it has affected him and his wife's relationship for good and bad, he's got stories that punctuate his entire life involving food. This is the kind of thing that I wanted to explore, and feel like I have done, within this project. The way that food connects you with those closest to you and the stories that goo along with that.
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