Identità Golose
Two days, about twenty classes and presentations on the stage, in the lounge and in the kitchens of a cooking school in Mayfair; these are the figures of the second edition of Identità London at Vinopolis, in the capital city of the United Kingdom. The first to speak was Jason Atherton on Monday, June 7 and the last were Chicco and Bobo Cerea the night after, from an English chef who is going to start his career on his own to the starred brothers of the Italian firmament with their risotto, a precious cameo in this edition studded with pasta proposals. From Gennaro Esposito to Davide Scabin passing through Heinz Beck and Massimo Riccioli, two chefs who settled in London too, besides Rome. And again Massimo Bottura and Andrea Berton in a constellation of thoughts, words and concrete signs filled also with Sat Bains, David Chang, Wylie Dufrense and Alex Stupak, the salty and sweet side of WD-50 in New York, Ashley Palmer-Watts, Alexandre Gauthier up to the rock-chef Alvin Leung who, as he did in Milan, pleaded the cause of the struggle to Aids through his new version of the cocktail Sex on the beach. And with me Tom Parker Bowles, a careful and curious M.C.
I was already convinced of it, Identità London has just confirmed my idea: abroad there is a longing for Italian quality, but without the bombast and superficiality of some outdated behaviors now useless. Indisputable facts and evidences of original existence are needed when we really want to confront the rest of the world; the blah, blah, blah we often live on in Italy becomes embarrassing abroad, especially now that a distinction is made between our popular and cheap cooking, pasta & pizza, and a haute cuisine of authentic contemporary quality.
We at Identità are already aiming at a new goal: Pavilion Italia at Shanghai’s Expo where Milan is going to show all its excellences, including cuisine, from June 16 to 23. Thanks to the collage of faces it’s easy to know which restaurants will be the protagonists in China: Marchesino of Gualtiero Marchesi, Luogo di Aimo e Nadia, Trussardi alla Scala of Andrea Berton, Joia of Pietro Leemann, Bulgari with Elio Sironi, D’O of Davide Oldani and Gold with Giacomo Gallina. Every day cooking show and haute cuisine lunch for about 30 guests.
Paolo Marchi
Founder and curator
Al Pont de Ferr, Maida Mercuri and Matias Perdomo in ripa di Porta Ticinese 55 in Milano, telephone +39.02.89406277
Alice, Viviana Varese in via Adige 9 in Milan, telephone +39.02.5462930
Ambrosiano dell’Atahotel Fieramilano, Massimiliano Mason in viale Severino Boezio 20 in Milano, telephone +39.02.336221
Bulgari, Elio Sironi in via Privata Fratelli Gabba 7b in Milan, telephone +39.02.805805233
Cracco, Carlo Cracco in via Victor Hugo 4 in Milan, telephone +39.02.876774
D'O, Davide Oldani in località San Pietro all’Olmo in Cornaredo (Milan), telephone +39.02.9362209
Il Liberty, Andrea Provenzani in via Monte Grappa 6 in Milan, telephone +39.02.29011439
Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia, Aimo e Nadia Moroni in via Montecuccoli 6 in Milan, telephone +39.02.416886
Il Marchesino, Gualtiero Marchesi in piazza della Scala angolo via Filodrammatici 2 in Milan, telephone +39.02.72094338
Innocenti Evasioni, Eros Picco e Tommaso Arrigoni in via privata della Bindellina in Milan, telephone +39.02.33001882
Joia, Pietro Leemann in via Panfilo Castaldi 18 in Milan, telephone +39.02.29522124
La Brisa, Antonio Facciolo in via della Brisa 15 in Milan, telephone +39.02.86450521
Manna, Matteo Fronduti in piazzale Governo Provvisorio 6 in Milan, telephone +39.02.26809153
Nicola Cavallaro, Nicola Cavallaro in via Ludovico il Moro 11 in Milan, telephone +39.02.89126060
Pane e Acqua, Francesco Passalacqua, via Matteo Bandello 14 in Milan, telephone +39.02.48198622
Sadler, Claudio Sadler in via Ascanio Sforza 77 in Milan, telephone +39.02.58104451
Sempione 42, Andrea Alfieri e Roberta Zulian in corso Sempione 42 in Milan, telephone +39.02.317849
The Park del Park Hyatt Hotel, Filippo Gozzoli and Galileo Reposo in via via Tommaso Grossi 1 in Milan, telephone +39.02.88211234
Timè, Patrizia Maraviglia in via San Marco 5, zona Brera in Milan, telephone +39.02.29061051
Trussardi alla Scala, Andrea Berton in piazza della Scala 5 in Milan, telephone +39.02.80688201
Zero, Chef Hidekazu Shinohara in corso Magenta 87 in Milano, telephone +39.02.45474733
Al Tronco, Anna Arrigoni and Alfredo Zini in via Thaon di Revel 10 in Milan, telephone +39.02.606072
La Brioschina, Edoardo Ruggiero in piazza Carrara 21 in Milan, telephone +39.02.89501177
Masuelli San Marco, Pino, Tina and Massimiliano Masuelli in viale Umbria 80 in Milan, telephone +39.02.55184138
Osteria I Valtellina, Lino Manfredi and Tina Colombo in via Taverna 34 in Milan, telephone +39.02.7561139
Ratanà, Cesare Battisti and Danilo Ingannamorte in via de Castilla 28 in Milan, telephone +39.02.87128855
Rovello 18, Cinzia Rossi and Gualtiero Panciroli in via Rovello 18 in Milan, telephone +39.02.72093709
Savini, Matteo Torretta in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, telephone +39.02.72003433
Trattoria del Nuovo Macello, Giovanni Traversone and Marco Tronconi in via Cesare Lombroso 20 in Milan, telephone +39.02.59902122
Trattoria la Pesa, Fabio Paolini in via Fantoni 26 in Milan, telephone +39.02.4035907
Trattoria Milanese, Antonella e Giuseppe Villa in via Santa Marta 11 in Milan, telephone +39.02.86451991
Antica Osteria del Ponte, in piazza G. Negri 9 in Cassinetta di Lugagnano (Mi), telephone +39.02.9420034
Antica Trattoria del Gallo, in via J.F. Kennedy 1 in località Vigano Certosino a Gaggiano (Mi), telephone +39.02.9085276
Bacco e Arianna, in via Circonvallazione 1 in Trezzano sul Naviglio (Mi), telephone +39.02.48403895
Da Orlando, in piazza Soncino 19 in Cusago (Mi), telephone +39.02.90390318
Due Spade, in via delle Filerine 2a in Cernusco sul Naviglio (Mi), telephone +39.02.9249200
I Castagni, in via Ottobiano 8/20 in Vigevano (Pv), telephone +39.0381.42860
L'Arsenale, in via Geppino Conti 8 in Cavenago d'Adda (Lo), telephone +39.0371.709086
La Corte, in via C. Chiesa 36 in Pogliano Milanese (Mi), telephone +39.02.93258018
La Lucanda del Devero Hotel, in largo Kennedy 1 in Cavenago di Brianza (Mi), telephone +39.02.95335268
Lear, in via Col del Frejus 3 in Briosco (Mi), telephone +39.0362.966920
Osteria del Pomiroeu, in via Garibaldi 37 in Seregno (Mi), telephone +39.0362.237973
