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Bagna cauda recipe by Pope Francis, the recipe – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Bagna cauda recipe by Pope Francis, the recipe


What does that have to do with it bagna cauda with Pope francesco? You must know how great the emigration was from Piedmont in Argentina and that there are many Piedmontese dishes popular in the South American country among third and fourth generation immigrants and in Argentine cuisine in general.

In Carlo Petrini’s book-interview, Terrafutura. Dialogues with Pope Francis on integral ecology in 2020, Pope Bergoglio he remembers the lunches of his youth in a community of Piedmontese immigrants.

While on working days we ate almost exclusively there polentaon holidays the bagna cauda reigned which in Argentina ended up becoming the «Italian Sunday lunch dish, known by the name of baña cauda. In a further Argentine elaboration, baña cauda is also poured over the agnolotti (ravioles) or on Milanese steak. Discover the recipe.

Pope Francis: stuffed calamari and other curiosities at the table – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

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Pope francesco he is perhaps the most interviewed pope in history, but no one has yet asked him for the recipe stuffed squid. «Jorge cooks very well, he makes amazing stuffed calamari, the pontiff’s sister confided in an interview, Maria Elena Bergoglio, a few days after his brother’s election as pontiff. From that March 13, 2013Bergoglio no longer had the opportunity to cook and the recipe for that “stunning” dish remains a well-kept secret.

The credit for the pope’s culinary skills goes to the mother Queen Marywho in turn had learned cooking secrets from Rose, Bergoglio’s paternal grandmother, who emigrated to Argentina from Italy. Lunches in the Bergoglio household were plentiful and long, especially on Sundays, when the women of the house went at it with their traditional dishes: risottos, homemade pasta, baked chicken, desserts.

The young Jorge Mario glanced into the kitchen, memorizing the skillful gestures of his mother and grandmother. “My mother,” Bergoglio said in the interview book El Jesuit, published in Argentina in 2010, «she remained paralyzed after giving birth to her last child, her fifth. When we returned from school, we would find her sitting peeling potatoes, with all the other ingredients for lunch already laid out. She told us how we should mix and cook them.”

Thus Bergoglio, even as a simple priest and then as bishop, he has always felt at ease around pots and stoves. When he was a professor at the Collegio Massimo, the future pope cooked for his students on Sundays, a day of rest for cooks. «He always prepared a fantastic paella for us, recalled his Jesuit brother, Father Angel Rossi. To those who asked him if he is really a good cook, Bergoglio replied: “Well, I have never killed anyone with my food.”

Elected pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, did not want to occupy the papal apartment. For him, therefore, no personal cooking service. No private chef or even, as often happens with ecclesiastics, cooking nuns. Pope Francis sleeps in a small apartment in the Domus Santa Marta and eats lunches and dinners in the common canteen.

The Pope is served at a secluded table. The cuisine is simple and not different from that of many other canteens: pasta or rice first courses, soups, meat and fish second courses, vegetables, salad, fruit. We drink white and red wine, generally Piedmontese. The products of the farms of the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo also arrive on the pope’s table: milk, ricotta, yogurt, cheeses, meat, vegetables and excellent honey. The Pope probably also enjoyed the gifts that Queen Elizabeth of England brought him during her visit to the Vatican in April 2014, all products of the royal estates, or rather, “of my garden”, as the Queen said to moment of exchanging gifts: honey, twelve eggs, ribs of beef, apple juice, cider, chutney, jams, shortbread, tea and even a bottle of whisky.

Pope Francis protagonist of the new issue of Vanity Fair – Italian Cuisine


Pope Francis protagonist of the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair on newsstands from January 6: the weekly entrusts the pontiff with the task of opening 2021 with a message of love and hope

From today, Wednesday 6 January, the new issue of Vanity Fair which he sees as the protagonist Pope francesco together with his message to face 2021 with love and hope: "We are all in the same boat, we must become a great human family".

"We had a dream, at Vanity Fair, for the end of 2020: to start the new year with a message from Pope Francis, to entrust him with the task of opening 2021 with confidence in a better tomorrow", writes in his editorial the director of the weekly Simone Marchetti. “In recent months, we have talked extensively with his collaborators. And today we are proud of this issue which reports two great themes dear to the Pontiff and also fundamental for Vanity Fair: respect and love for diversity, all diversities. And the hope that the vaccine will be available for everyone, without distinction or nationalism, and above all for the most vulnerable and needy .

The cover portrays the serene face of the Pontiff who recalls a phrase of St. Francis, "All Brothers", a universal invitation addressed to every man and woman to be a great human family beyond diversity, indeed by accepting, loving and respecting diversity of all. A message that Vanity Fair for its cover has decided to translate into different languages.

A special issue that arrives on newsstands after months of pandemic and in the first days of the new year to remind us that "from a crisis like this one does not come out the same, but better or worse", as His Holiness recalled in his Pentecost homily.

The Pope's message continues inside the issue with an extract from the Urbi et Orbi Christmas blessing granted to Vanity Fair. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 84, is the 266th Pontiff: from St. Francis of Assisi he inherited not only the name but also the desire to embrace all diversity.

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