The Building
In the heart of Forlimpopoli, the birthplace of Pellegrino Artusi, Casa Artusi has been standing since 2007. It is the first centre of gastronomic culture dedicated to Italian home cooking. Housed in the former convent of the Chiesa dei Servi, a monumental complex of extraordinary beauty that occupies 2800 square metres. The structure is divided into different spaces, all related to the different expressions of gastronomic culture. Library, cooking school, museum, restaurant, wine cellar, events container, workshop. Casa Artusi is the living museum of home cooking.
History
Pellegrino Artusi, acknowledged father of modern cuisine and great popularizer of the Italian language, was born in Forlimpopoli on 4 August 1820 and died in Florence on 30 March 1911. A bourgeois man of letters, from a family of merchants, he travelled throughout Italy for tourism and work. At the age of 30, he settled in Florence where he dedicated himself to his book ‘La Scienza in cucina e l’Arte di mangiar bene’ (Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well). Published in 1891 for 15 editions with 790 recipes accompanied by reflections and curiosities of Italian gastronomy, exalting local diversity and making Artusi’s book timeless.