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All this was consumed with a backdrop of projected found images (interspersed with video footage of the butchers and cooks at work), industrial noise, Italian speeches, and music. Attendees included filmmaker Les "Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers" Blank, Davia Nelson of PBS' The Kitchen Sisters, Jonathan Marlow of San Francisco Cinematheque, and Hannah Eaves of Link TV.
Again risking possible injury to banquetters, dessert descended from the sky: honeyed panforte, borne by parachutes printed on rice paper with edible ink, with a copy of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 1909 Futurist Manifesto, precursor to the Futurist Cookbook of 1932 that helped inspire the evening -- sort of. Lance Winters of St. George Spirits provided a grappa flavored with roasted beef heart (said to be from the very animal butchered in the atrium) for those not faint of heart.
For more images, check out SFoodie's slide show.
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