21-01-2019
The programme of the 15th edition of the Identità Milano Congress will include many new speakers as well as many returns. Here are the highlights of the three days, taking place in the spring, for the first time, on March 23rd-25th. The complete programme is available online in the new section of the website, dedicated to the Congress
There are 61 days to go until the debut of the 15th edition of the Identità Golose Congress in Milan: for the first time in its long history, the event created by Paolo Marchi and Claudio Ceroni is taking place in the spring, on March 23rd-25th in the usual location, at MiCo, in Via Gattamelata. The theme will be The Human Factor: Building New Memories. As our most careful readers will notice, it is the natural new chapter after the 2018 theme, The Human Factor.
«The Human Factor, the theme of the 2018 edition of Identità Golose in Milan, is as important, globally, as ever»,Paolo Marchi said last summer, when anticipating the choice of fil rouge for the 2019 edition. And then: «The strength of the human factor is explosive and embraces an element which we chose as the theme for the 2019 edition, on March 23rd-25th. Everything will focus on the concept of memory, in a way that recalls a famous quote by composer Gustav Mahler: “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”».
As of Sunday 24th, the Auditorium will welcome the chefs who were asked to interpret this year’s theme: there will be "our" giants, Carlo Cracco (Cracco, Milan), Massimiliano and Raffaele Alajmo (Le Calandre, Rubano – Padua), Andrea Berton (Ristorante Berton, Milan) and Davide Oldani (D’O, Cornaredo – Milan), together recalling also Gualtiero Marchesi, and Heinz Beck (La Pergola at Rome Cavalieri, Rome), plus the return of Peruvian Virgilio Martinez (Central, Lima) and, a few years after his debut, Turkish Mehmet Gürs (Mikla, Istanbul), as well as the debut of some great international names: José Avillez (Belcanto, Lisbon), Tim Raue (Tim Raue, Berlin), Diego Guerrero (DSTAgE, Madrid). The programme also includes a not-to-be-missed tribute to Alain Ducasse.
There will be eight speakers in this section: Matias Perdomo and Simon Press (Contraste, Milan), Mariano Guardianelli (Abocar Due Cucine, Rimini), Antonia Klugmann (L’Argine a Vencò, Dolegna del Collio – Gorizia), Jeremy Chan (Ikoyi, London), Francesco Apreda (Imàgo at Hotel Hassler – Rome), Roy Caceres (Metamorfosi, Rome), José del Castillo (Isolina, Lima – Peru), Yoji Tokuyoshi (Tokuyoshi, Milan).
And many more news will be announced in the next few days...
THE OTHER ROOMS – There are many more events that will return in this new edition of the Congress. On March 24th there will be 8 lessons within Identità di Pasta, (in collaboration with Pastificio Felicetti) including, among others, Alessandro Negrini and Fabio Pisani (Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia, Milan), Gennaro Esposito (Torre del Saracino, Vico Equense – Naples), Carlo Cracco and Isabella Potì (Bros, Lecce). And on the same day we will have four talks as part of Identità di Formaggio (in collaboration with Grana Padano), including Christian and Manuel Costardi (Cinzia - Da Christian e Manuel, Vercelli) and Giancarlo Perbellini (Casa Perbellini, Verona).
And then there’s the focus on Pasticceria italiana contemporanea (in collaboration with Petra® Molino Quaglia and Valrhona): starting with Corrado Assenza, and ending with Gianluca Fusto (Fusto Milano), including Massimo Alverà (Pasticceria Alverà, Cortina d’Ampezzo – Belluno) and Carmine Di Donna (Torre Del Saracino, Vico Equense – Napoli). We will then speak of leavened products during Identità di Pane e Pizza (in collaboration with Petra® Molino Quaglia), with twelve speakers including great masters and new talents, such as Lionello Cera (Antica Osteria Cera, Campagna Lupia – Venice), Gennaro Battiloro (Battil’oro, Seravezza – Lucca) and Franco Pepe (Pepe in Grani, Caiazzo – Caserta).
Translated into English by Slawka G. Scarso
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Journalist, based in Milan. At 8 years old, he received a Springsteen record as a gift, and nothing was the same since. Music and food are his passions. Author and broadcaster at Radio Popolare since 1997, since 2014 he became part of the staff of Identità Golose Instagram: @NiccoloVecchia