22-07-2013
Squid egg by Pino Cuttaia, chef at La Madia in Licata (Agrigento), is the emblem of the tenth edition of Identità Milano, from February 9th to February 11th 2014
As of today, Monday 22nd July, the first act of Identità Milano 2014 is online here on Identità Golose’s website. It will be celebrated from Sunday 9th February to Tuesday 11th at the Congress Centre in Via Gattamelata, the same location since the winter of 2009, and it will be focused on the theme of "A tasty intelligence", a concept I had in my mind after a recent trip to Hong Kong, on the occasion of an event. We were dining at Bo Innovation with Massimo Bottura and Claudio Ceroni when suddenly, speaking about Alvin Leung’s dishes and Massimo’s the chef from Modena said something profound that we too often forget: "I would like to be considered an intelligent chef".
Of course, one can have a brilliant intuition, guess a masterpiece by chance, so to speak, or impose something because he doesn’t find much resistance, he can be astute and know how to avoid all obstacles, he can weave the right plots in order to navigate well all the time, he can have talent in the kitchen but it is intelligence (perhaps mixed with a pinch of folly) that in the long run awards the best - because they manage, more than others, to have a clear vision at all times (and in all professions).
Massimo Bottura
Fulvio Pierangelini
Identità 2014 will have an egg as its symbol, namely Pino Cuttaia’s Squid egg, the latest version of a lengthy work by the Sicilian chef focusing on a popular mollusc that has been ennobled by an extraordinary game that reminds us of the most classic egg, that of a hen. Going back in time, the first signature-dish was signed by Carlo Cracco with his Dried vegetables. It was 2007, edition number 3. Pasta and helium by Alfonso Caputo followed in 2008, and then the Marine choreographies of traditional recipes by Moreno Cedroni in 2009, Massimo Bottura’s Non-boiled boiled meats in 2010, Davide Scabin’s Spaghetti Pizza Margherita in 2011, Paolo Lopriore’s Bread, salted butter and raspberry in 2012 and finally, in the ninth edition, Massimiliano e Raffaele Alajmo’s Pier-Angelini - in fact Fulvio Pierangelini will be one of the protagonists in Milan on Sunday 9th February
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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