Futurist Banquet

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"A long freeze seems to paralyze the diners, substituting for the usual ice-cream which as it happens is bad for stomachs which have become so heated in the acrobatic juggling of happiness, alarming mushrooms and dynamic partridges..."

-The Futurist Cookbook

("Gelato," or ice cream, is also the Italian past participle of "to freeze": noted in Anti-Diets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art, By Cecilia Movero)