01-08-2015 | 19:30 e 21:00
An extraordinary fourhanded dinner with two high quality chefs. Tony Mantuano, of Spiaggia in Chicago, one of the most famous American chefs, so much so he’s considered "Barack Obama’s chef", today plays a duet with Italian Marco Sacco, of restaurant Piccolo Lago in Verbania, two Michelin stars. Every week the “Italian & International Best Chefs” series presents a special event: the chef livening the kitchen of Identità Expo from Wednesday till Sunday also takes part in a special event with a foreign colleague (or vice versa, as in this case), thus giving life to a truly unique meeting of styles.
Mantuano is, as mentioned above, one of the most famous chefs in the US, and he’s he certainly was among those who paved the way for the success of Italian cuisine in America with his restaurant Spiaggia, opened in 1984. Mantuano had spent the previous year in Italy, acquiring important experience in fine dining restaurants such as Dal Pescatore in Canneto sull'Oglio or Da Romano in Viareggio. He was proclaimed “Best Chef: Midwest” by the James Beard Foundation in 2005, an award for which he was also nominated a few times. He is also a huge television celebrity, the protagonist of two seasons of "Top Chef Masters", and he’s the author of numerous bestselling cookbooks. Among his greatest sources of satisfaction as a chef, however, there’s the choice made by Obama to celebrate his presidential election in 2008 with a dinner at his very own Spiaggia. As for Sacco, his motto is "take the past, shape it in the present and project it into the future". He was born in 1965 in Premosello Chiovenda, a small village in Val d’Ossola in Piedmont. His parents, Gastone and Bruna, who’ve always been restaurateurs, arrived at Piccolo Lago in 1974. So since he was a child Marco experienced the chef’s profession, helping his father in the kitchen and taking over in 1991 with his brother Carlo. His style encloses and represents modern concepts such as the use of the heat dispersed in the kitchen, and he masters all cooking techniques from wood cooking to induction. The first Michelin star arrived in 2004, the second three years later.
Fine dining at Expo 2015 goes under the brand of Identità Golose thanks to Identità Expo, the event – created in collaboration with S. Pellegrino – which for six months will summon great Italian and international chefs to Milan for a unique, extremely elegant temporary restaurant. There will also be lessons, cooking shows, meetings, demonstrations... All this animating a rich programme of events (soon online), the result of the organisational effort and prestige of Identità Golose.
