Massimo Bottura, at the G7 in Borgo Egnazia, he brought sustainability. He makes this known by recounting his experience as a chef for the world’s greats at the summit hosted in Puglia on the website www.dissapore.com. An important task, perhaps the most important that the chef of Osteria Francescana has ever had to face, as he himself admits. Cooking for international presidents and the Pope is certainly a point of arrival in a career that is also extremely full of satisfactions, social occasions, authoritative awards, VIP guests from all over the world.
We (writes the website www.dissapore.com), thanks to the story of the menu summarily published by agencies and newspapers, had had the opportunity to notice how, in the dishes proposed by Bottura for the G7, we were missing some of his great social commitment. That commitment which over the years has led him to often be more of a personality than a chef, as happens with great chefs when they have something to say. The Refectories, the fight against waste (symbolized by iconic dishes such as “bread is gold”, which ennobles the most noble raw material, albeit the poorest, with the golden color), the effort for the social inclusion of people with mental disorders autistic spectrum, started with direct experience with his son Charlie.
The chef is keen to let us know that it’s not what it seems. Which al G7 the contents were there, beyond the dishes prepared. And which the greats of the world appreciated and understood, also guided by the story of an enthusiastic Giorgia Meloni – says the chef – who expressly wanted to present an all-round Massimo Bottura, with all his worthy projects, and not just as a chef among the most famous of all time.
And so we (www.dissapore.com always writes), who are happily ready to be proven wrong, are here today to declare, as we promised, that Bottura it was cool. One who, he tells us, served Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau, Ursula von der Leyen and company a very simple bread and tomato. Revolutionary, in fact, just as we asked him to be. “Toasted bread soaked in tomato water”, explains Bottura, precisely to enhance the poor but precious raw materials. The slices of bread, in the manner of Massimo Bottura, were covered in gold to illustrate the richness of that product, just like in the dish created for Food for Soul, “bread is gold”.
Then of course, there was the journey among the products Italians: lots of fish (except for Joe Biden, who doesn’t eat fish), lots of regional contamination, but also the interesting idea of serving that blue crab that scares our seas so much, thus bringing the theme of climate change to the plate , globalization, water exploitation.
And then for the Pope Bottura prepared the tortellini of the Tortellante, the therapeutic-enabling laboratory in Modena where young people and adults with autism spectrum disorders learn to produce fresh handmade pasta. Here it is, social commitment, served for lunch to the most authoritative voice in the world on this type of issue.
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