18-10-2021
Riccardo Camanini at Identità Milano 2021. All photos from Brambilla-Serrani
Camanini is Camanini. The one and only. The least that can happen when the big boy from Gardone Riviera speaks, is that you will freshen up your knowledge of Aristoteles and the Italian Constitution, and then view a series of frames from Ecce bombo picturing a weird-looking Nanni Moretti only to dive into the imagery of Macondo. All this, curiously, without Riccardo Camanini ever puffing his chest. Because virtue and knowledge for the gentle cook from Lido 84 are tools, an essential viaticum to reach the goal of a tasty yet sensible cuisine. A cuisine that goes beyond the necessity of loving oneself, so closely connected to happiness, by doing a good job, and instead completes the duty of each citizen of “doing, according to one's possibilities and choices, an activity that can contribute to the material or spiritual progress of society”. Article four of the magna carta on which the Italian law system is based, as quoted in the sixteenth edition of Identità Milano.
Making one of the dishes presented by Camanini: leg of ram, covered in suet, lard and toasted faggiole
Rice, caprifico (wild fig) and macerated walnut husk
Pasta e fagioli
Roasted ram, beech, lamb sauce
Grilled Tombea, karimunda pepper, bitter drink
Dates, fennel, sea urchins and nigella
Lemon from Toscolano Maderno candied three times
Camanini with Paolo Marchi and Carlo Passera, who presented the lesson
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Riccardo Camanini, at Identità Milano 2024 shows the audience the special pastry with which he prepared the first of the dishes he presented (All photos are by Brambilla / Serrani)
Riccardo Camanini's lecture at Identità Milano 2024 will be on Monday 11th of March, at 10.55 a.m., in the MiCo Auditorium