Futurist Cocktails

Futurism, the Italian art movement of the early twentieth century, often had a playful aspect, in which games were seen as an aesthetic activity, a sort of optimistic “refounding” of art. It was certainly a utopia, but this exercise allowed Futurists to reflect and practice in the most disparate fields, such as cooking.

The futurist ‘polibibite’ were born in a period of autocracy and strong nationalism, in contrast especially with American cocktails , by using only Italian products.

Our 2023 calendar, decades of tradition of the Serandrei family that began in 1981, presents the aperitifs invented and proposed by the Futurist movement (some are educated guesses and drinkable, others are merely provocative inventions) that have been interpreted in the graphic style of that time, by Studio Tapiro of Venice. They represent the desire of futurism to bring art into daily life by investing in many different areas such as toys, clothing, advertising, scenic sketches and tapestries, in a provocative and playful way to continuously rebuild the universe, and cheering it up.

You can read the recipes below: have fun replicating them at home or come and taste some of them at our Ristorante La Rivista.

Futurist Cocktails: the recipes

REGENERATOR
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 glass of Asti spumante
• 3 toasted walnuts
• 3 teaspoons of sugar

Everything beaten for 10 minutes. Presented in a glass with a peeled and protruding banana inside.

SIMULTANEOUS
• 4/8 Vernaccia wine
• 3/8 vermouth
• 1/8 brandy

Unripe date stuffed with mascarpone mixed with Aurum liqueur (Pescara). The date thus packaged is wrapped in thin slices of raw ham and then in a lettuce leaf. All stuffed into a toothpick on which a small pickled red chili pepper stuffed with chopped Parmesan cheese will also be inserted. (If you put the toothpick in the glass, the eyes of the fat deposited by the ham will appear on the liquid: in this case the Futurist cocktail may be entitled ‘that pig that makes a wink’).

SENATE OF DIGESTION
Four diners will order two meals or digestive drinks each. Or eight diners, one of them each. The other guests will secretly vote against one or the other. The winner will be the one with the fewest unfavorable votes.

WHITE ROSE
Different doses of orange, Campari liqueur and anise with essence of White Roses.

CAFFÈMANNA
Roasted barley coffee, sweetened with manna. Serve it very hot so that each diner can cool it by whistling inside the most freezing jokes.

MILK IN THE GREEN LIGHT
In a large bowl of cold milk put a few teaspoons of honey, many black grapes and some red radishes. Eat it while a green special light illuminates the bowl. Simultaneously drink a Futurist cocktail made of mineral water, beer and blackberry juice.

PLUSMINUSMULTIPLIEDDIVIDED
• 1 candied chestnut
• 1 part tea liqueur
• 1 part pineapple liqueur
• 1 part thyme or wild thyme liqueur

LIKE A CLOUD
A large mass of whipped cream covered with orange sauce, mint, strawberry jam and sprinkled with Asti spumante.

JUMP IN MEAT
• 3 coffee beans
• 1 part liqueur made with the following plants: coca, cola, damiana, muira puama, ioimbre, ginseng, echinacea
• 1 part tea liqueur
• 1 part kirsch

ALCOHOL CAROUSEL
• 2/4 of Barbera wine
• 1/4 of cedar
• 1/4 of Campari bitter

A square of cheese and a square of chocolate, stuck on a toothpick, are dipped into the liquid.

ALPINE LOVE
• 1/4 lemon balm liqueur
• 1/4 fir buds
• 1/4 bananas
• 1/4 fragrant woodruff

THE GREAT WATERS
• 1/4 of grappa
• 1/4 of gin
• 1/4 of anise

Above the liquid floats a block of anchovy paste pharmaceutically wrapped in a host.

INVENTINA
Cocktail by the Futurist Aeropoet Marinetti.
• 1/3 Asti spumante
• 1/3 pineapple liqueur
• 1/3 chilled orange juice

FOG CUTTER
• 1/3 sagebrush liqueur
• 1/3 rhubarb liqueur
• 1/3 grappa

MANLADYMIDNIGHT
On a round plate pour some red zabaglione to form a large stain.In the middle of this put a disk of onion with holes, crossed by a stalk of candied angelica. Add two candied chestnuts as indicated in the drawing, and serve it in 1 dish for each couple.

SPARK
• 1/4 hull liqueur
• 1/4 gentian
• 1/4 absinthe
• 1/4 juniper

DEVIL IN BLACK TONIC
• 2/4 of orange juice
• 1/4 of grappa
• 1/4 of liquid chocolate

Dip the yolk of a hard-boiled egg.

DECISION
• 1/4 of Chinato wine
• 1/4 of Rhum
• 1/4 of boiling Barolo wine
• 1/4 of tangerine juice

CARAMELLINO
• Prosecco wine
• tonic water
• Aperol
• passion fruit liqueur

BURNINMOUTH
At the bottom of the glass: whiskey with black cherries in spirit, previously dipped in cayenne pepper.
Above: buttermilk or honey (1 cm thick) as a waterproof division.
On the honey: Alkermes, Vermouth and Strega.

LA RIVISTA
• vodka
• passion fruit liqueur
• passion fruit puree
• lime
• brown sugar
• mint

UPRIGHT
A hollow cylinder of ice covered on the outside with honey.
Inside and at the bottom: cream ice cream, then Chivasso peanuts, pieces of pineapple, all washed down with vermouth and glacial mint.

NONSENSE
On an aluminum small plate, equidistant: a pile of toasted almonds, banana slices, anchovies, toasted coffee, slices of tomato and Parmesan cheese.
In the center of the plate, a glass containing: vermouth, cognac, Strega.
Inside: banana slices.

TIRAMISU MARTINI
• Tiramisù liquor
• Kahlua liqueur
• amaretto di Saronno liquor
• vodka
• Espresso coffee
• cream

The 2023 Calendar

Download the web version of our 2023 calendar and take a look at the Futurist Cocktails designed by Studio Tapiro.