BREAD AT SPRING

Spring smell thanks to Il cucchiaino di Alice

Ingredients: manitoba flour 300 gr, kamut flour 150 gr, fresh brewer's yeast 12 gr, sugar 1 little spoon, salt, water 150-200 ml, parmigiano cheese 1 spoon, pecorino cheese 1 spoon, asparagus pointed, boiled honeycomb, oil.

Melt fresh brewer's yeast 7 gr with a little spoon of sugar in a cup of warm water, wait few minutes. Mix 100 gr of manitoba flour with two little spoos of warm water. Put the compound in a fresh place to leaven some hours (even the whole night). Take the risen ball, melt the remain brewer's yeast in warm water with a spoon of sugar, wait few minutes and add the flour. Add warm water (where you melt 1 little spoon of salt before) and parmigiano chesee, knead. Put the compound in a warm place to leaven(for example the oven 35 C°) for 2 hours.

Dust with flour the little pots, put the mixture there in small portions. Put the honeycombs on the top, in the middle an asparagus (put some alluminium sheet around them for the oven). Leave them in a warm place to leaven for 1 hour.

Finally put them in the oven 200 C° for 25'-30'

 

KURT HOW OLD R U?

KURT RIEDI - designer

how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? My dad made my bed for me for in his workshop. It is made of wood. I can't remember my cradle...

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? Sometimes my dad makes "Everything Stew" and it doesn't taste very good. I like it better when my mom makes fondue on holidays and my sister and I get to drink sparkling apple juice from wine glasses.

your favorite book to read? Any book about trains or animals, and of course pop-up books.

have you got an imaginary friend? No, only people friends.

which is your favorite cartoon? My favorite cartoon is the Smurfs, but I don't understand why Gargamel is always trying to eat them.

CHIARA HOW OLD R U?

CHIARA CAMONI - artist  

how is your bed? With flowers

which kind of meal you do not like?

Beetroot and your favourite? Pastries with cream

your favorite book to read? Richard Scarry’s Storybook dictionary

have you got an imaginary friend? His name is “puf puf castagnuff”

 

FLORIAN HOW OLD R U?

Florian Puschmann - White elephant - designer  

How was your cut when you were a Baby? How is your bed? I don't remember my baby bed, but later my father built me a wonderful loft bed with a slide, lots of places to hide and a window with a flap connecting me to the living room.

Which is your favorite dish your mum use to cook for you? What meal don’t you like at all? Porridge, I use to eat it from a floating wooden bowl while I take a bubble bath. I do not want to eat rabbit, because they are so cute.

What is your favorite book? 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak

Do you have an imaginary friend? No, but lots of other nice people around me

 

LIFETIME

the bed LIFETIME by nonjetable can be used by a child from 3 years up and for the rest of his life. The bed can be completed with seperated elements of different size, that come under the bed. Soft natural wooden touch without any treatment and even it can be easily assembled in a few minutes!

MERI HOW OLD R U?

Meri Von Renteln - Nonjetable - designer 

How was your cut when you were a Baby? How is your bed? I had very little hair gring the first years and later on I have always short hair for summers. My first bed was a crib. It was light yellow with movable coloured wooden balls that you could move up and down on the wooden bars. On the bed head there was a sticker I remember precisely with a smiling child that showed 4 steps how to wash your teeth. Now I have a 90x200 bed a simple mattress with springs.

Which is your favorite dish your mum use to cook for you? What meal don’t you like at all? Hard question, because my mum don’t cook much and if she does it is not my favorite dish. My favorite dish is a fish soup. I don’t really like any meat dishes, I think meat look quite suspect.

What is your favorite book? The books with the Moomin , read in the evening with Tove Jansson’s rich black and white drawings.

Do you have an imaginary friend? No I only have real friends, especially my bestfriend who I imagine to be my sister or at least my cousin. Or I imagine that my dog plush animal is a real dog.

Waiting for the entrée

“Waiting for the entrée” by Emanuele Magini describes the moment when both adults and child play with whatever they find on the table, like bread and tools, in order to wait for the meal to be served. It consists in a soup plate that hosts a small labyrinth in the middle of the central surface that can be used to play with small breadcrumb balls or green peas. An empty time transformed in an entertaining and recreational time.

SOUP WITH THE TASTE OF SPRING AND LITTLE BIT OF WINTER TOO

by Il cucchiaino di Alice

Ingredients: leaves of chicory, half pear, 1 or 2 zucchini, extra virgin olive oil, 1 mozzarella, (salt, pepper for mum&dad), onion, parmigiano reggiano cheese

Stew onion with 2 little spoon of oil, add zucchini and pear, leaves of chicory. Cover with 1 and half litre of water. Cook for 20-25 '. Blend all with a little spoon of oil, parmigiano, for the baby add some pieces of  mozzarella and pearl millet.  For mum and dad add salt and pepper  and if you like some peel of ginger.

CRISTIANO HOW OLD R U?

CRISTIANO GUERRI -  photographer

how is your bed? My bed is inside a closet. As a kind of magic box, every night my mum pull and voilà! she use to put around it a magic lamp that draws fantastic shadows on the wall: that's my magic place.

which kind of meal you do not like? and your favourite? I hate apples and tomatoes. I'm crazy for chocolate.

your favorite book to read? My favorite book is an illustrated encyclopedia about animals. I spend hours on insects and amphibious (I especially love beetles and tritons).

have you got an imaginary friend? No, but I have a real rhinoceros beetle hidden under my desk. Please don't tell mum, she's terrified by the big horn!