08-11-2016
A shot from the meeting last Friday at Coin - Spazio Cargo Etc. in Piazza Cinque Giornate in Milan, with chef Cesare Battisti and professor Severino Salvemini. The "Storie di gusto e di passione" series organised in collaboration with Identità Golose involved six more cities: Bari, Bergamo, Catania, Naples, Rome, Treviso. In the following piece we publish a photo gallery with participants, dishes and the best moments in these 7 events
BARI. A curious audience in the Coin store in Via Noicattaro, inside shopping centre Casamassima
BARI. The speakers with Paolo Marchi were Felice Sgarra (in the photo), chef at restaurant Umami in Andria and Vincenzo Del Monaco of Bottega del Monaco in Grottagle (Taranto)
BARI. Felice Sgarra cooked a Cream of black chickpeas from Murgia with red prawn from Gallipoli and raspberry
BERGAMO. Three pillars from the Cerea family spoke at Coin: next to Paolo Marchi, there’s signora Bruna and her children Rossella and Chicco
BERGAMO. Chicco Cerea prepared a...
BERGAMO. ...Chestnut polenta with spicy tomato and pecorino
CATANIA. In Catania, the event took place on the third floor of Spazio Cargo Etc. inside Coin in Via Etnea 116/124 with Corrado Assenza of Caffè Sicilia in Noto, Paolo Marchi and Bianca Celano of restaurant QQucina in Catania
CATANIA. Bianca Celano
Grilled octopus on emulsion of hazelnuts from Etna, beetroot gnocchetti with Mielarò, wild fennel and sea urchin sauce by Bianca Celano
CATANIA. Corrado Assenza, Bianca Celano and Paolo Marchi
NAPLES. This was the dish presented at Coin Napoli on the 4th floor of Spazio Cargo Etc., in Via Scarlatti 90/98. It’s a soup with eight beans, sconcigli and porcini by Marianna Vitale of restaurant Sud in Quarto (Naples)
NAPLES. With Marianna Vitale and Paolo Marchi – in the middle – there’s Elisabetta Moro (second to the right), professor of Cultural Anthropology and co-director at Medeat Research, the Centre for Social Researches on the Mediterranean Diet at Università degli studi Suor Orsola in Naples
NAPLES. Marchi, Vitale, Moro
NAPLES
ROME. The protagonists of the event at Coin, 3rd floor Spazio Cargo etc., in Piazzale Appio 7: Cristina Bowerman of restaurant Glass Hostaria and Laura Delli Colli, journalist and writer specialised in cinema
ROME. The event at Coin in the capital. Cristina Bowerman cooked Pumpkin and pumpkin and pumpkin, quail egg and gorgonzola
ROME. Group photo with the catering school students
TREVISO. The trio at the Coincasa event in Treviso. Left Nicola Dinato of restaurant La Feva in Castelfranco (Treviso); right Giancarlo Perbellini of Casa Perbellini (Verona). In the middle Paolo Marchi
TREVISO. Dinato cooked Risi bisi and monkfish: Soft peas and rice, a liquid raviolo of monkfish, lemon balm concentrate, grated monkfish liver and puffed black rice
TREVISO. Coin Casa was very crowded
4th November, Coin in Piazza Cinque Giornate in Milan. This was the last of seven events within the “Storie di gusto e di passione” series which Identità Golose conceived together with the famous clothing and accessories retail chain, founded by Vittorio Coin almost a century ago (here’s a nice summary of the group’s history). Last Friday, on the -1 floor at Spazio Cargo etc., just like with the events in Bari, Bergamo, Catania, Naples, Rome and Treviso (see the photo gallery to the right), there were three people taking part in the debate (the room was full, with many people standing): Paolo Marchi, founder of Identità, Cesare Battisti, chef at Ratanà in Milan and economist Severino Salvemini, professor of business organization at Bocconi university. The topic was “kitchen and creativity” and the place couldn’t have been more suitable, surrounded as it is by large signs on the walls with words like creativity, courage, fantasy, heart… After the welcome given by Alessandro Massa, sales director at Coin, Marchi opened the debate: «Today we wonder why Milan loves creativity and innovation so much, both in the kitchen and in everyday life. Our town has never identified itself with its excellences, it doesn’t take them for eternal and unquestionable. So much so it’s easier to find sushi than good risotto alla milanese».
Paolo Marchi, Cesare Battisti and Severino Salvemini
The Risotto with pumpkin from Mantua, earth of olives and 'nduja prepared last Friday at Coin by Cesare Battisti, chef at Ratanà in Milan
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born in Milan, 1973, freelance journalist, coordinator of Identità Golose World restaurant guidebook since 2007, he is a contributor for several magazines and teaches History of gastronomy and Culinary global trends into universities and institutes. twitter @gabrielezanatt instagram @gabrielezanatt