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He’s the stylist. She is the costume designer. «My wife and I area a good match. I make the cakes. She dresses them, creating the perfect context. Because in all that we do we create a leitmotiv. By studying and building everything to measure, as in the finest tailoring», says Gianni Zaghetto, at the helm of Pasticceria Racca in Padua with his wife Monica Lazzarini. Gianni was born in Padua, in 1965. «My parents were restaurateurs. My father Severino had a restaurant, so I decided to attend catering school, and specialised in dining room and bar tending». And indeed Gianni opened a bar in 1982. Then he launched an ice cream shop and, in 1990, he took over the historic Racca, established in 1933. He transformed it into an elegant and modern boutique. «We constantly change setting. Based on the season. Tracing a leitmotiv between sweet offer and visual».
A haute couture pastry shop, where every smallest detail is thought over so as to create some real collections: of single-portion ice-creams, macarons, brioches and croissants, jams and marmalades, pastries, as well as pralines and biscuits-chocolates. Which reach their peak in the Couture Racca Chocolate griffe, confirming their exclusiveness. «In fact, I don’t have a favourite chocolate. I love all my products», Gianni reveals. And has Meteor, a celestial sphere in triple version, fall on earth. Always remaining faithful to a crumble fine-tuned with Petra 5 flour: Ivoire white chocolate from Valrhona and dry raspberries; Jivara chocolate and dry passion fruit; as well as Guanaja and caramelised walnuts.
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from Lombardy, she graduated in Literature and started working as a journalist. Then she changed direction, towards travels, food and wine. She now directs Fuori Magazine, the new editorial project of Petra-Molino Quaglia
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The nine speakers of Pasticceria italiana contemporanea, Sunday 25th October, the entire day in Sala Blu 2 at Identità Milano 2020, in collaboration with Petra® Molino Quaglia and Valrhona. Top row, from the left Corrado Assenza (Caffè Sicilia, Noto - Syracuse); Nicola Olivieri (Olivieri 1882, Arzignano – Vicenza); Gianni Zaghetto (Pasticceria Racca, Padua). In the middle row: Angelica Giannuzzi (Pashà, Conversano - Bari); Fabio Longhin (Pasticceria Chiara, Olgiate Olona - Varese); Anna Sartori (Pasticceria Sartori, Erba - Como); bottom row Diletta Zenna (Lazzaro 1915, Pontelongo – Padua); Nicola Di Lena (Seta del Mandarin Oriental, Milan); Fabrizio Fiorani (Pastry consultant). TO REGISTER IN IDENTITÀ MILANO 2020, CLICK HERE AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS