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Alain Ducasse and Massimo Bottura at Identità Golose Milano. Photos from Sonia Santagostino
Massimo Bottura: «Please, pay attention. Tonight I have an extraordinary scoop. I’ll tell you something no one knows. People of Milan, please understand that the best panettone is not here in Milan, but in Monaco! His words! His words!» and he points at Alain Ducasse who first looks at him seemingly innocently and amused, then replies among the laughter: «But it’s true! It’s true!». Hugs, smiles, «this is the spirit of this night: we’ve been friends for over 25 years», says the chef from Modena.
Presenting the dinner with Massimo Bottura, Alain Ducasse, Claudio Ceroni, Paolo Marchi
The chefs with their most important assistants: Romain Meder and Jessica Prealpato from Plaza Athénée, Massimo Bottura, Matteo Zonarelli, whom we had met at the S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2016 when he was working in Macao with Umberto Bombana and recently at Osteria Francescana, Alain Ducasse and Jessica Rosval, also from Osteria Francescana
Carlo Cracco, Massimo Bottura and Alain Ducasse laughing
Our Cinzia Benzi with Cristina Reni from Food for Soul
A group photo
Jessica Prealpato and Romain Meder
Massimo Bottura and Claudio Ceroni
Alain Ducasse and Paolo Marchi
Bottura and Ducasse with Rodrigo Oliveira, The Brazilian chef is the protagonist of the dinners at Identità Golose Milano until Saturday 15th
Ducasse and Cracco
Franco Aliberti with chefs and sous chef at Identità Golose Milano, Alessandro Rinaldi and Alessio Sebastiani
Claudio Scavizzi and Davide Groppi
Ducasse and Bottura with Almir Ambeskovic, Head of The Fork in Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark
Bottura hugs Clément Vachon, Communication and International Relations Director at Sanpellegrino
Andrea Ribaldone, Paolo Marchi, Paola Jovinelli and Claudio Ceroni
The pastry chef from Identità Golose Milano, Gabriele Tangari, and the one from Plaza Athénée, Jessica Prealpato
Final autographs
«A heartfelt thanks goes to Identità Golose Milano, chef Alain Ducasse, his team, to the brigade of friends from Osteria Francescana. Together with our founder Massimo Bottura, they gave life to an incredible fund-raising dinner in Milan. Thanks to the support of this fantastic group of people, we will be able to create new social projects and spread our message with a stronger and stronger voice. We’re very happy to share our vision with them. Cooking is a call to action» (Food for Soul)
Translated into English by Slawka G. Scarso
journalist born in 1974, for many years he has covered politics, mostly, and food in his free time. Today he does exactly the opposite and this makes him very happy. As soon as he can, he dives into travels and good food. Identità Golose's editor in chief
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