03-09-2014
Carlo Cracco, portrayed yesterday, on Tuesday September 2nd, in front of some photos of his signature dishes, at Stelle di Stelle, the pop-up restaurant created for 5 months by Identità Golose inside the Wine Bar at Harrods, in collaboration with Harrods. This is the fifth edition of Identità London, the second one in the department store on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge
It made me quite an impression (a reducing definition) yesterday in the morning, on Tuesday September 2nd, to arrive in front of one of the entrances to Harrods and see a great poster announcing Stelle di Stelle, the pop-up restaurant born from the collaboration between us at Identità and the department store in London. “5 Italian chefs 13 Michelin stars – 1st September 2014 to 31st January 2015” and then the names of the chefs involved. First Carlo Cracco, then the Cerea brothers, Chicco and Bobo, Gennaro Esposito in November, Annie Feolde and Italo Bassi in December, while the golden month, because of the famous sales, will be controlled by Enrico Crippa.
I was touched because you cannot get to Harrods by hitchhiking, by chance. Besides London was the first great city where my parents sent me so I could learn English. It was the summer of 1968, I was only 13 and everything seemed extraordinary in this immense town that a boy you had just finished middle school in Milan couldn’t even measure. When I thought I had understood how to move in a particular space, I would discover another, as charming as the previous one.
Carlo Cracco’s take on caprese for Stelle di Stelle, for the entire month of September at Harrods in London
Fast foods soon became evil food and now I look for good things elsewhere. Harrods is the Wimpy of those days, every age has its points of reference. Today there’s Cracco settling in the new restaurant in the Wine Bar on the basement. It is called Stelle di Stelle, in Italian. Here in the British capital – and luckily not only here – there’s lots of desire for good Italian food. Not the usual one. Even here, people have enough of pizza and mandolins, so much so that Carlo is presented as the person who “leads a new generation of progressive chefs with a radical take on Italian Classics”.
Burnt chocolate and parsley dessert, dessert firmato Carlo Cracco a Stelle di Stelle ovvero Identità London 2014
Today there’s the encore and tomorrow, late in the afternoon, the conference with all the protagonists.
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born in Milan in March 1955, at Il Giornale for 31 years dividing himself between sports and food, since 2004 he's the creator and curator of Identità Golose. blog www.paolomarchi.it instagram instagram.com/oloapmarchi