An Italian restaurant does not succeed on opening night. It succeeds in the sixteen weeks before it. Chef Giampaolo Maffini has built and led kitchens for Fairmont, Four Seasons, One and Only, Hilton, Crown Resorts and Ritz-Carlton across 18 countries. That includes...
Walk into a serious Italian kitchen at eight in the morning and you will smell the same thing. Onion, carrot and celery cooking slowly in olive oil. That is soffritto. It sits underneath ragù, minestrone, braises and half the sauces that define Italian cooking. Done...
Tiramisu has six ingredients and no technique to hide behind. Mascarpone, eggs, sugar, savoiardi, strong coffee and cocoa. When it fails it fails in one of three predictable places.Mistake one, cold mascarponeMascarpone taken straight from the fridge and beaten into a...
A hotel Italian menu has to satisfy four things at once. It has to be recognisably Italian. It has to be sourceable where the hotel actually is. It has to hit a margin. And a brigade of varying experience has to repeat it identically at eight o clock on a Saturday....
Ragu alla bolognese is one of the most misrepresented dishes in the world. The Accademia Italiana della Cucina lodged a recipe with the Bologna Chamber of Commerce in 1982 and updated it in 2023. It is worth knowing what that recipe contains before deciding to depart...
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