At n.1 we can see one of the first industrial production pressure cookers with thermostat included: the Auto-Thermos of the Ateliers de Boulogne, presented for the first time at the Salon des Arts menagers in 1926, winner of the gold medal in the Lépine competition, which had some success in the 1930s, but its high price and its delicate manipulation prevented its mass diffusion, despite the advertising support of the famous star Joséphine Baker. Also, of French production we find some of the first design pots (n. 2). At n. 3 the first edition of “La Gastronomie” by Joseph Berchoux is exhibited, a poem that had great success in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In this work, the word “gastronomy” is used for the first time in the modern sense of the term, no longer therefore in the Greek meaning of “stomach law”, so, from a medical point of view. At n. 4, another important rarity from Rossano Boscolo’s collection: one of the very first models of gas ovens, produced starting from the first half of the nineteenth century in France. Paris was one of the first cities to be widely connected to gas, so much so that in 1820 much of the city’s lighting was managed with gas. At n.5 you can see a pot from the early nineteenth century for cooking in a bain marie and at n.6 a beautiful copper pot dating back to the end of the eighteenth century. The window display also contains another important book: in fact, at n. 7 there is the work of Mary Elizabeth Beeton “The Book of Household Management” considered the bible of nineteenth-century English cuisine. At n. 8 we find a series of important water pitchers from the Tuscan-Emilian area, with zoomorphic or simple beak, all referable to the second half of the nineteenth century. Among these, at n. 9, a terracotta amphora from the late nineteenth century, of Sabine or Tuscia manufacture. It is one of the first oil containers with a jet breaker system. At n. 10 a German electric toy kitchen from the 1930s, still fully functional, while at number 11 you can admire a classic Italian Balilla kitchen.
