27-11-2018
Last week at Identità Golose Milano, the International Hub of Gastronomy in Via Romagnosi 3, twins Sergey and Ivan Berezutskiyof Twins Garden in Moscow signed the special dinner menu from Wednesday 21st to Saturday 24th November – for info and reservations for the next events visit the official website. It was a precious, unique opportunity to approach a fermenting and growing gastronomic scene like the one of Russia, of which the two twins from Twins Garden represent the avantgarde. To find out more about the four dinners, read: Eating Russia: the Berezutskiy brothers at Identità Golose Milano. To find out more about the gastronomic scene of the largest country in the world see The summa of Russian cuisine. But we also asked for her take to an Italian who knows that area well. Enjoy
There’s no journey without a food-related memory. Places are meaningless backgrounds if we skip a food stop; a stop which, in time, will feed our memory and give us a map of delicious morsels eaten here and there, on the path of the senses. Every cuisine depicts the destination: its inner features, hard times and history that turn into dishes, identity, a natural appendix of body and soul.
I think of the Gorkij literary institute, where it’s best to renounce to the last five minutes of literature history, leaving the empty chairs during an old declamation of Mayakovsky. Appetite, instead, rushes you to the canteen, unless you want to fill your stomach with fish-soup with plenty of bones and no fish. And once in the queue, here comes the stewed liver with jasmine rice, celeriac and beetroot salad and the Tuesday special: pelmeni stuffed with potatoes. These ravioli, often with a humble heart, are filling but disappear too soon from the plate of the starving students laughing on the burgundy-coloured armchairs in the dehors of what, at night, once ladles and bowls are set aside, is dressed up as a jazz club.
Translated into English by Slawka G. Scarso
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Born in Irpinia in 1991, she studied Foreign Languages at university, and then International Studies. But then she followed her heart and so her love for hospitality was born in the New Forest (U.K.). Her love for food had always been alive and kicking. After manging the hospitality at Identità Golose Milano, today she reports on flavours for Identità Golose. Isa travels, and tastes. She keeps her sensations alive through words.