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90 years of Fisher-Price .. with a touch of art! – Italian Cuisine

Fisher-Price joins Vogue Italia for a collaboration that brings an artist's touch to the heart of the brand: Eva Cremers, Dutch illustrator and digital artist, has been selected to create, for the November issue of Vogue Italia, a reworking of visual key to some of the most iconic Fisher-Price products

2020 was a very important and significant year for Fisher-Price: the most loved and known brand in the world in the childhood and preschool category has celebrated its first 90 years of life. In fact, it was in 1930 that Herman G. Fisher, Irving L. Price and Helen M. Schelle founded the company in East Aurora: since then Fisher-Price toys have entered the childhood memories of entire generations around the world.
Fisher-Price, for 90 years, has been working alongside families to invite them to discover the wonder of being children and to see the world with their own eyes, just like when they play with a Fisher-Price product. To end the year with a flourish and to effectively show what it means to see the world through the eyes of the little ones, Fisher-Price joins Vogue Italia for a collaboration that brings an artist's touch to the heart of the brand: Eva Cremers, Dutch illustrator and digital artist, has been selected to create, for the November issue of Vogue Italia, a visual reworking of some of the most iconic Fisher-Price products.

Eva Cremers is an emerging Dutch illustrator and digital artist who has made fantasy and humor the strengths of her works. The artist for Fisher-Price has combined the contemporaneity of shapes with the characteristic and inimitable features of the brand, giving life to a unique reinterpretation of 3 "historic" Fisher-Price products, which shows at 360 ° the playful and imaginary potential that springs from Fisher-Price toys, so even the older ones can enjoy it. Playfulness and dream are therefore the two keywords that have guided the Dutch illustrator and digital artist in her reinterpretation of the iconic Telefono Chiacchierone, Cagnolino Ridi & Learn and the 5 ring Pyramid.

It is not the first time that Fisher-Price, in the year of celebrations for its 90th anniversary, joins the world of art: to celebrate the legacy of the brand, on October 16 it was inaugurated, on the account of the same name Instagram, the digital experience "Fisher-Price Toy Museum" a real exhibition with more than 90 different images of as many exhibits organized for decades, so that visitors can find and rediscover the vintage toys of their childhood. The Fisher-Price Toy Museum digital exhibition was conceived by American designer Leila Fakouri, who in the past has created sets for brands such as Nike, Chanel and Gap.

Modenese touch – Italian Cuisine

Balsamic vinegar gives aroma and finesse to an excellent mayonnaise to complement white meats, hard-boiled eggs and crunchy vegetables beat the egg yolks in a bowl, with 1/2 teaspoon of mustard and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. First add the seed oil, then the extra virgin olive oil, stirring with a whisk until you obtain a homogeneous emulsion.
Complete with a pinch of salt and 1 tablespoon of balsamic vinegar.

Genoese touch: sauce and more! – Italian Cuisine

A single piece of meat cooked for hours in tomato to obtain a tasty sauce for pasta and a very soft second course

The Genoese touch – 'u tuccu in the Ligurian dialect – is a gravy typical of Liguria which takes its name from the fact that it is prepared with a single piece of meat that cooks the tomato in cooking and which, once used to prepare the seasoning, is eaten as a second course.

The Genoese touch needs one quite long preparation but the recipe for preparing it, as we will see, is quite simple.

To cook it, usually, you use a cut of meat rather lean, beef or veal.

How to enjoy the tasty Genoese touch? Tradition indicates i ravioli, with meat filling or borage, depending on your taste.

Genoese touch: how to prepare it at home

Ingredients

To prepare the Genoese touch you will need: 250 g of beef or rump leg, 300 g of tomato sauce, 20 g of dried mushrooms, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 garlic clove, 1 celery stalk, rosemary, bay leaf, salt, extra virgin olive oil olive, 1/2 glass of red wine.

Method

The first thing to do in the recipe of the Genoese touch is the sauté with onion, carrot, chopped celery, oil and garlic in which the whole piece of meat will then be browned, adding the red wine to blend. When all the liquids have evaporated, it's time to add the tomato sauce and – after soaking them in a little warm water – the mushrooms. Then add salt and continue cooking over a low heat adding water or broth if needed, bay leaf and a little pepper. The cooking will have to last a long time, at least for three hours, until the meat is very soft.