16-06-2016
Massimo Bottura with Alain Ducasse on Tuesday, during the party at Eataly. On this occasion, the new editions of Identità in New York and Chicago were also presented
Massimo Bottura with Alain Ducasse
Signature
With his wife Lara Gilmore
Paul Pairet, Pierre Hermé, Mario Batali and Massimo Bottura
Yannick Alléno, Pierre Hermé, Mario Batali, Massimo Bottura, Raf Alajmo and Alain Ducasse
Batali star performer
Frittata di spaghetti by Riccardo Orfino
«You must have known it, Paolo», said Lara Gilmore,MrsBottura that is, on Tuesday afternoon. She was referring to the fact Massimo was to win the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Of course I didn’t know, but I did try to think about it, knowing very well that those who are considered most likely to win end up being disappointed. The most disappointed of all was Brazilian Alex Atala four years ago, but so did Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park last year.
Putting those who know little but speak a lot aside, given 2015 was dominated in Italy by Expo in Milan it was easy to think that never as this year we would have so many critics and food writers linked to the Fifty Best in Italy. Not only that: the chef from Modena launched his extraordinary Refettorio project right in Milan – the next phase of which will be in August, in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympic Games. If not now, it was never going to happen. The world is a big place and in many, chefs, firms and institutions, play Risk with restaurants. There are plenty of people taking part in this competition.
Mario Batali, Massimo Bottura, Enzo Vizzari, Raffaele Alajmo, Alain Ducasse, Paolo Marchi and Davide Scabin
The invitation said presentation and celebration with an announcement: at the end of July, the second Eataly store will open in Manhattan, Downtown. The restaurant inside, to be called Osteria della Pace, will have Riccardo Orfino as its chef. The name of the restaurant was not given by chance as it will be located where the Twin Towers used to be before the 9/11 attacks in 2001. On this occasion, on Tuesday, Orfino served a Spaghetti frittata. It’s a poor dish, made with left-over ingredients, which Orfino created thinking about the theme of the October event: "Don’t waste the planet". An imperative that was stressed by Expo, and will be dominant for a long time.
Osteria Francescana is in Via Stella in Modena, that’s a sign: «When I received the first star, I had the jacket they make you wear at the presentation lying on my bedside table as I was sleeping, for a month. I would wakeup wondering if it had been a dream. I’d look next to the bed, find it and then the day could start. One day I told the mayor of Modena that he needed to change the name of the street: Via Tre Stelle. We laughed».
Bottura leaving: he’s going to the 50 Best, where he is to be crowned
Then from Manila came Margarita Forés, the best female chef according to the 50 Best Asia. Then volcanic Mario Batali. As soon as they were happily posing, came three more great chefs, Pierre Hermé, Yannick Alléno and Paul Pairet, we just wrote about him here. Ducasse said: «We all need to express our own culture. It’s not a question of Italy and France, of guides and awards. This is the response to globalisation: be yourself».
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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