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Lesson.6 Find Your Passion
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1Lesson.6 Find Your Passion
Da Vinci the Cook
요리사 다빈치Leonardo da Vinci is known as one of the greatest painters of all time.
He was also a great inventor, scientist, and musician.
Very few people, however, know that da Vinci was also a creative cook.
In 1473, twenty-year-old da Vinci worked as a cook at a restaurant in Florence, Italy.
When he took charge of the kitchen, da Vinci changed the menu completely.
He made simple but artistic dishes like fish with a few carrot slices.
Some dishes were even decorated with flowers.
Customers, however, were unhappy because they were used to dishes with big servings of meat.
As a result, da Vinci lost his job.
A few years later, da Vinci opened a restaurant with his friend Sandro Botticelli.
He wanted to create a place where people could try his innovative food.
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2They put up a beautifully painted sign and made a uniquely written menu.
Da Vinci believed that people would soon appreciate his creative cooking.
Unfortunately, that never happened.
In the early 1480s, da Vinci began to work for Ludovico Sforza in Milan.
He was given many different roles, such as a musician, a painter, and an engineer.
He was also put in charge of the kitchen.
He was happy to be given another chance to pursue his passion for cooking.
Da Vinci did not stop at cooking creative dishes.
He wanted to cook much more quickly and easily.
Thus, he invented new machines for his kitchen.
He created machines that could crush vegetables and pull spaghetti.
He even made a device that could scare frogs away from the water tank.
Surely, they were all very innovative, but most of them were too big or too difficult to use.
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3In 1495, Sforza asked da Vinci to make a grand painting, which was based on the last supper of Jesus, on the wall of a church in Milan.
Da Vinci gladly took on the project because he had always been interested in food.
He spent a lot of time cooking all kinds of food to decide what to put on the table in his picture.
“Da Vinci has wasted his time in the kitchen for over a year.
That's the reason why he hasn't finished the painting yet," complained the people from the church to Sforza.
Although da Vinci never became a successful cook, he showed great interest in cooking throughout his life.
He was not only a great painter but also a creative cook.
Now that you know all about his secret passion for cooking, you will never look at The Last Supper the same way.
