businessman, wrote the first cookery book to unify italy s regional specialities into a cohesive national cuisine. mmm. artusi s book was a sensational hit and his mailbox was soon jammed with recipe suggestions for the next edition. squid ink risotto. oh my god, literally one of my favorite things in the world. barbara asioli is an artusi disciple who assists in the cookery classes here at the museum. let s go! and happily, barbara s invited me to her place to try artusi s version of bolognese ragu, the first recorded recipe of the famous meat sauce. barbara: it s similar but it s different. welcome to my house, mr tucci. it s beautiful.
to. everyone is convinced that they know what should be in this recipe, so i m heading east to the birthplace of italy s culinary godfather to sniff its roots. rural romania joined with the wealthy cities of emelia in the 1940s to create the region. the town is home to the museum, a shrine for a food lover like me. at the end of the 19th century artuzi, a 71. -year-old businessman wrote the first cookery book to unity italy s regional specialties into a cohesive national cuisine. his book was a sensational hit and his mailbox was soon jammed with recipe suggestions for the next edition. squid ink risotto, oh, my god,
work together to identify it. there s nothing special about the objects we re using. there s no bar codes or special tags on these. reporter: then a projector creates a touch-screen display at your fingertips. put two items together and oasis gives recipe suggestions, timers and cooking instructions appearing on the countertop. when you finish, you can store what you ve learned in a virtual drawer. researchers are taking it out of the kitchen to see what else it can do. it s exciting to take it and drop it down in a million other environments and see what happens. chess, anyone? gary tuchman, cnn. cool. very cool. can you clean it? can you spray it down with windex or lysol? you d have to. unfortunately magic ball you can t touch it with anything.
reporter: research recent at intel labs seattle are cooking up something new. 3-d technology that turns your kitchen counter into an interactive touch screen surface. it s called oasis. the oasis system uses cameras to turn everyday work space into an intelligence space where objects that come in get recognized and give you access to a whole world of digital information. reporter: you just put an item on the counter, a camera and computer work together to identify it. there s nothing special about the objects we re using. there are no bar codes or special tags on these. reporter: then a projector creates a touch-screen display right at your fingertips. put two items together like this steak and pepper and oasis gives recipe suggestions, timers and cooking instructions all appears right on the counterpat top. you can store what you ve learned in a virtual drawer .the