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The new Bib Gourmands from the Michelin Guide – Italian Cuisine

The new Bib Gourmands from the Michelin Guide


There are 266 good food places, with a great value for money and a maximum of 35 euros. For the inspectors of the Red Army they are more important than the Stars, because they preserve the true spirit of the guide. Here are the news, from the Alps to Sicily

Perhaps not everyone knows that the Michelin Guidethat in 2020 it will be 120 years old – was born with a spirit far removed from today's value. It was a little book that the brothers Édouard and André Michelin, founders of the most famous tire manufacturer, had wanted to help the few thousand French drivers struggling with a journey that was often adventurous at the time. It contained practical information (where to refuel, where to find a workshop, where to change tires) and directions on where to eat and sleep. In Italy, for the record, the first Michelin Guide is from 1956 that reviewed places from the Alps to Siena, but from the following year it already covered the entire national territory. With a dry and precise language.

They do not enter with the Stars

The Michelin stars were born in 1931, and five years are put "as a system" and ultimately the method has remained so, ending up becoming fundamental for the prestige of a local, but above all of a chef. The concept of "chasing" the star in an almost scientific way is the son of the 80s, on the wave of the clamorous assignment of the first three stars by the French – who until then considered us very little – at the restaurant of Gualtiero Marchesi in Milan. Suffice it to say that in the 70s Italy had a dozen or so small and a few dozen single stars. To understand, in the just presented edition, there are a total of 374 starred restaurants, with eleven Three Stars and 35 Two Stars. Perhaps too many, but it is also true that compared to the past, the rule of the chef-patron does not apply and the restaurants inside a hotel are no longer penalized as in the past, on the contrary.

Quality-price: it counts a lot

What has not changed is precisely the concept of Bib Gourmand, where instead of the classic plate with the "macarons", the one with is placed the smiling face of the Michelin Little Man who licks his mustache. The pictogram indicates a place that offers a pleasant gastronomic experience, with a complete menu for less than 35 euros. I am 266 in all of Italy, in the cities as in remote villages in the Apennines, precisely to help the traveler find a delicious refuge. THEThe quality-price ratio is an essential element in the selection, but priority is the passion for the table that creates the atmosphere of the Bib Gourmand, in which you can taste recipes often inspired by tradition. But it is also true that in the 25 novelties of the 2020 Guide there are three ethnic venues.

Emilia-Romagna in the lead

Here is the complete list of the new Bib Gorumand: The Osteria del San George (Genoa), Osteria La Torre (Cherasco), Empire (Sizzano) Italy (Quarona) Canton Restaurant (Capriate S. Gervasio), The nine bowls (Milan), Elisa and Fausto – Locanda Setteca ’ (Valdastico), Kurbishof (Anterivo) Alpenrose (Bressanone), La Grotta since 1918 (Sasso Marconi / Mongardino), The Campanara (Galeata) Trattoria Antichi Sapori (Parma / Gaione) Podere 39 (Florence), Typical & La Locanda del Capitano (Montone) The Temple of Taste (Spoleto) From Gregorio (Orvieto / Morrano) Osteria Ophis (Offida), L'Oste della Bon'Ora (Grottaferrata) From Armando al Pantheon (Rome), Greent. (Rome), Trattoria Pennestri (Rome), Estro (Pescara), Spoon (Teramo), Le Antiche Sere (Hvar) Venetian (Randazzo). Curiosity: for Bib Gourmand numbers, the region where you eat best isEmilia-Romagna with 33 seats, followed by Piedmont with 32, Lombardy with 28, Tuscany with 27 and Veneto with 22.

10 comfort food versions for gourmands – Italian Cuisine

10 comfort food versions for gourmands


If you are a fan of this delicacy, try it in the version that best suits you: only hazelnuts, with cocoa, with little sugar, without palm oil, organic

The cold temperatures tempt us to stay at home, to look for a sofa and a cover and to indulge in some more pampering, especially in terms of food. The password is comfort food, which is what makes us feel good and satisfies our emotional need. For gourmands, for example, most of all, they are i desserts.

Cuddle with hazelnuts

As one Spreadable cream to be enjoyed directly by sinking the spoon, melted in hot milk, on a slice of bread, a biscuit, or even as a filling of a cake, perhaps accompanied by a cup of tea and steaming coffee. These autumn fruits keep us company all winter and with sugar and cocoa they become irresistible. The variations to choose from are endless and all super tempting. And from Eataly you find one selection really quality.

Without sugar or with hazelnut oil?

There is that of Maison della Nocciola Piemonte, made without adding cocoa and rich in vitamin E, D and calcium, that of Achillea with hazelnuts I.G.P. 45% bio and cocoa, without palm oil, added milk or gluten, or that of Health greedy, an alternative and healthy pastry that produces it with hazelnuts and cocoa but without sugar; there is that of Venchi produced with hazelnuts, cocoa and olive oil, or even that of Clauses based on toasted hazelnuts and cocoa, perfumed with a hint of vanilla, that of Pariani which uses hazelnut oil and de oil The Window on the Sky, organic and made only with three ingredients: hazelnuts, brown sugar and bitter cocoa. And do not forget the creme gianduja (which takes its name from the typical Piedmontese mask) like that of Domori with creamy chocolate and hazelnuts, without milk, or that of Caffarel with cocoa and fine Piedmontese hazelnuts. And the Giacometta? It is the sweet wedding of Gianduja and is produced by Giraudi with I.G.P. hazelnuts, cane sugar, sunflower oil and cocoa.

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