The editorial of the new special issue of La Cucina Italiana, on newsstands from August 5: this month Davide Oldani will guide us on our incredible journey to UNESCO
I remember well an interview with Davide Oldani years ago, when I worked in another company magazine (Vanity Fair). He spoke to me about the bike, about the passion for cycling. But beyond the sport, which Davide practices constantly (and you can see it) and of which he has made a lifestyle, he told me about the discipline, the resistance that it takes to pedal along a steep slope with the forehead that is imposing sweat and the soul concentrated in the effort, the muscles frying, the heart beating fast. As the panorama moves around. An individual sport that requires careful team play to win. A metaphor for a tough day in the kitchen where you stand for hours, where you put your heart and soul into what you do because you believe in it and where you always resist, from morning to evening until late at night. And the great driving force of all this is always and only passion. The passion that this boy from San Pietro all’Olmo, a village on the outskirts of Milan, has put into becoming the great chef he is, the passion that we are all taking to get to nominate Italian cuisine as a UNESCO intangible asset. The passion that you put when you light the fires in your home kitchen and start the tasty dances. Here it is. If the bike is like the kitchen, I want to continue pedaling.
Thank you, Davide, for this adventure.
P.S. 1 The photo was taken in the bar of the Acli club in front of the DO in San Pietro all’Olmo while drinking a foam.
P.S. 2 In this issue, a bike service could not be missing, between the lakes of Italy to taste trattorias (and life).
Photography by Stefan Giftthaler
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