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Green Food Week: pink risotto (also) arrives in Milan – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Eating healthy starts from a very young age: it also starts from here Green Food Weekthe week dedicated to sustainability in the kitchen created by the association Foodinsider and dedicated to school, university and company meals. Having just begun, and always eagerly awaited, it is an opportunity to reflect on the impact of the food we eat, to which the Municipality of Milan and Milan Catering they participate punctually with great enthusiasm. This year – within the framework of the project Horizon 2020 School Food 4 Change – they (also) thought of a particularly inviting way to involve the very little ones on February 8th.

Green Food Week in Milan schools

February 8 will in fact be the day dedicated to Green Food Week schools, with new menus in primary schools in all the cities that have joined. The symbolic dish created by the Municipality of Milan and Milano Ristorazione is abarbarisotto”. A fun and intriguing name for beetroot risotto: a healthy and low impact dish made with local and seasonal ingredients to show the little ones how much it can be tasty and fun to eat foods that are good for us and the environmentand also how important it is to know what you eat.

In fact, the initiative will not be limited to lunch: educators and teachers, with many useful ideas provided by Foodinsider, the Municipality and Milano Ristorazione, will show the students how food is born, where it comes from, why it is important to choose ingredients that come from places as close as possible and that they are as vegetal as possible. The rice used for risotto, for example, is grown in the Cascina Battivaccoin the Barona district, a stone’s throw from the city center, while the yogurt comes from Cascina Campazzo, in the Ticinello park. Children will be able to bring all this back home and relive the experience with their parents also thanks to other useful and practical advice made available for adults on foodpolicymilano.org. There are also recipes, very easy. To try, at the bottom of this article, you will find the recipe for barbarisotto.

The commitment of the Municipality of Milan to sustainable nutrition

«This year too we are joining the Green Food Week with special attention to describing the care for food and the environment that characterizes the choices in our canteens: we do it in a healthy and fun way, coloring the greenest menu of the year pink” he explains Anna Scavuzzo, deputy mayor with responsibility for Food Policy and Education of the Municipality of Milan. «Each of the dishes offered he continues, «tells the commitment to plan, cook, distribute, administer and evaluate meals for girls and boys in the city. Starting from the choice of raw materials that are attentive to the environment and health: organic, short supply chain and km0 products are now a permanent presence on the menu and this has made it possible to reduce CO emissions₂and by over 34% in a few years, between 2015 and 2022. All these actions can become even more effective if they become common heritage, starting from those who experience schools every day”.

The menu for February 8th, for Green Food Week

The menu for February 8 is exemplary: the children will eat organic apples for the mid-morning snackfor lunch – after the beetroot risotto – meatballs with organic soy and organic carrots as a side dish, other fresh fruit and 0 km bread with organic flour. Finally, for a snack, natural yoghurt with short supply chain and Km 0 in paper jar. A good, healthy, environmentally friendly menu: the overall impact of the school menu on Green Food Week is 140 TonCO₂and against an average of 222 TonCO₂and the ordinary menu.

It is worth underlining a trend: Milano Ristorazione has developed a change in the purchasing of raw materials which has led, in the period 2015 – 2022, to a decrease in 34% of CO emissions₂ equivalent. A theme on which the Municipality of Milan has been working for some time: it joins the initiative Cool Food Pledge, promoted by the international research center World Resources Institute, which involves the public and private sector in monitoring the environmental impact of collective catering menus. For this reason, together with other cities such as Copenhagen, New York and Toronto, the Municipality evaluates the results of the gradual changes made to the menus from 2015 to today, in particular regarding the promotion of proteins of plant origin, through the introduction of more vegetables and legumes.

The recipe for “barbarisotto”

Ingredients for 4 people

Method

Rinse the rice in a bowl of fresh water, drain and leave to rest.
Wash the fresh celery, peel the carrots and onions for the preparation of the broth, add the vegetable stock cube.
Cut the beets into pieces, blend them, adding the liquid if present and a part of the broth.
Prepare the sauté with the quarter of chopped onion and add the rice, toast it and then add the broth, adding it when necessary during cooking.
Halfway through cooking, add the beetroot smoothie and continue to cook, stirring occasionally.
Leave the rice al dente and stir in Parmigiano Reggiano.

Teresa Mannino: «In Milan you have brunch, we eat cazzilli – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

He will also be among the co-hosts at Sanremo 2024 Teresa Mannino who, at the 74th Sanremo Festival 2024, starting on February 6th, will join the host and artistic director Amadeus on the evening of Thursday 8th. Sicilian comic author and actress, born in 1970, Mannino “with a unique and original gaze observes and tells what happens in the small world of private relationships and in the large world of the public scenario”, we read in his bio.

Amadeus, Mannino and chef Andrea Berton. “We have chosen the ingredients, now we just have to mix them”. (@teresamannino_official)

Differences at the table between North and South

“I’m very ready, because I’ve been preparing for a lifetime,” she declared some time ago on Tg1. «But not in Sanremo, but to say what I think, which is what I will also do on that stage. And on the Ariston stage Mannino will not disappoint. Her gags tell of herself, a Sicilian transplanted to the north, to Milan, but also of the relationship between man and woman, parents and children, partly focusing on the differences between north and south, which mostly revolve around the relationship with food and the relationship with time. «Food for us southerners is linked to the emotional sphere, in Milan you give flowers here, we give trays of sweets. The weekend doesn’t exist for us, because we have Sunday lunch with relatives, of which there are two in the end, one to eat and the other to digest. Ours is not your brunch, we have pasta with sardines, stuffed aubergines and fried cazzilli.” And fried cazzilli are among the goodness of traditional Sicilian cuisine, delicious potato croquettes typical of Palermo street food. In fact, in Palermo they can be found in all the fried food shops, but they are served with panelle, the fried variant of chickpea farinata. Here is the recipe and five tips to avoid mistakes.

Where to eat in Milan: new restaurants to try – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Where to eat in Milan? Let’s start with the news, because the list in Milan is always full. At any time of the year, in any corner of the city, there is some inauguration. After all, if going out to drink and eat remains one of the great passions of the Milanese, it is precisely because there is always something new that makes you want to go out. Perhaps less frequently, given that inflation is being felt and prices (already high) have also risen in public places, but for this very reason – in our opinion – more carefully than before.

Where to eat in Milan: new openings

So we thought we’d create our own list, with the new restaurants in Milan that we think are worth trying. You will find a bit of everything, because it’s nice to vary: from elegant and romantic restaurants to sandwich shops, some new ethnic ones, some addresses that remain tenaciously attached to tradition, bars and cocktail bars and, last but not least, pizzerias. Here is the list of addresses that we will update gradually with interesting openings.

Gordon Ramsay Recipes