09-07-2021
Andreas Caminada on the edge of the vegetable garden at Fürstenau, in the Swiss Grisons (photo Schloss Schauenstein, Oriani Oregoni)
After little over a two hours' drive from Milan, you're in Fürstenau, an old Swiss village in the Grisons. With some 350 inhabitants, it's the smallest town in the world. And it's in the centre of this charming village, a short walk from the river Rhine, that you can find Schauenstein Castle in all its 18th century elegance. The estate hosts the restaurant of Swiss chef Andreas Caminada - 3 Michelin stars and 19 points in the Gault&Millau – and 6 rooms that wisely pair ancient spaces and contemporary style. Cicero wrote: «Put a library next to your vegetable garden and you'll have all you need». And here, next to the Castle and to Casa Caminada (which also includes some buildings in the village with an oven open to the public, a building with other guestrooms and Osteria Remisa), you really have everything. When showing his garden lab, located only a short walk from the castle, with simplicity and extreme devotion Caminada conveys a crucial concept, that is to say that the proximity to the vegetable garden allows him to have an intimate, privileged and almost mystical contact with nature, which through its fruits becomes the authentic source of inspiration in creating his dishes each day.
Crispy potato chips with barbecue cream
Tomato tartelette
Cream of peas and ravioli with watercress
Spinach ravioli and broth
Trout cooked at low temperature and beetroot
Sphere of yogurt with calamansi and sauce of sea buckthorn
The castle of Schauenstein
In the meantime, Caminada is brewing a new project… we'll tell you about it in the coming weeks.
Translated into English by Slawka G. Scarso
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Partners in life, Josephine QUIntessenza and Elisa ALLocco have always shared a passion for gourmet cuisine which is the inspiration for their travels around the world. Their adventures can be found on their Instagram account @qui_and_all