Here is an excerpt of the interview made to me by the beautiful talented Laura Rangoni of ...
Green Cabbage
From Sicily With Emotion
- you like to talk briefly about you, your life and your professional and educational experiences?
I am one who has managed to make his passion his work. My experiences are different, it would take more than a few lines ... However, I am self-taught, my experiences have been most significant in Japan in order to Farmhouse Restaurant in Fukui city The owner is a Japanese tycoon who decided to invest in me ... Simply amazing! Another important step was in Australia in Melbourne where I made an advisor to the opening of several restaurants in town. Then I learned the news that I had been taken to test drive''Cook''
As the passion for cooking?
By chance,''I''is like an athlete: I was 17 years of professional volleyball (series B) at 20 I stopped to take this call, because of this question. However, sport is always an integral part of my life, because now I dedicate myself to amateur boxing.
You had a teacher or a contact person who inspired your research?
say that until a few years ago I was in plaster''''in the sense that play traditional Italian and Sicilian, but I was not totally satisfied'''' because although reinterpreted in a very personal, however, I felt a''scribe.'' Then one day thanks to Massimo Bottura, I knew what I wanted was the Contemporary Emotional ie one that allows you to express yourself with all of your feelings.
undertaken so that my cooking emotional, resulting from technical knowledge, essential, but combined with my state of mind because of memories, emotions precise. So my dishes are mine in every sense of the word ... Then they can not like it but part of me. The best compliment I received was when a customer said to me,''a chef tasting his dish was a bit like biting 'of her soul''here, this phrase encapsulates what is my kitchen.
There are books that you have been if not essential, a great help?
Not particularly in any text in the kitchen is good, we must be able to read ...
How do you define your kitchen?
Emotional
What weight has a tradition in your kitchen?
Lots why are my origins, my history, the tradition of a people is its historical memory ... For that respect, much respect, and we must learn from the tradition because it's the ABC of cooking. Here's an example: I know many young chefs who have already tinkered with low temperatures and the like, but they do tomato sauces that you can not eat ... Must know how to walk before you run.
What are the ideas you want to express?
Nessuna in particolare, soltanto un modo nuovo di pensare un Piatto. Trasfomiamo il piatto come una pagina di un nostro diario, una tela ad olio dove andare ad esprimere ciò che il nostro cuore ci trasmette. Anche con tecniche di cottura ''classiche'', senza necessariamente stupire con giravolte spaziali. Il cibo deve essere per prima cosa buono e trasmettere emozioni. Fatto questo hai raggiunto il tuo scopo!
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