29-05-2014
This 25-year-old Spanish girl arrived in Italy after growing up – professionally – in Girona, in the great Celler. At the end of a first experience in Abruzzo, Sicilian Mario Sansone and Angelo Parello brought her to Rome, to open together a place called Marzapane dolce&cucina (tel. +39.06.64781692), which starting from its name already announces its multifunctional vocation
The dishes I create, tell my story and love is my raw material par excellence, the only real guide throughout these 9 years of work. I was born in 1989 in Banyeres de Mariola (Alicante) and started to work in the kitchen when I was still very young. After finishing catering school came the important experience with Paco Torreblanca, an important name in international pastry making and then at the famous El Celler de Can Roca with the Roca brothers. They taught me discipline, order and humility and it was truly a unique training that I will always keep in my heart. I still consider them a point of reference. Then, exactly there, I met Mattia Spadone of La Bandiera in Civitella Casanova and I soon decided to move and work with him, so I left Spain for Italy. This country conquered me right away, inspiring my dishes and my heart!
Alba’s dishes are always in balance between Spain and Italy, thus full of Mediterranean influences
Marzapane in via Velletri in Rome is open from Mondays to Saturdays from 1 to 3 pm and from 8 to 11 pm. On Sundays for lunch only
Women who, for a moment, leave pots and pans to tell us their experience and point of view
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