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in Turin the dishes of the Monferrato tradition are renewed – Italian Cuisine

in Turin the dishes of the Monferrato tradition are renewed


When a dish of the Piedmontese peasant tradition can become innovative and change a menu

Sometimes to move forward you have to take a step back. This is what the guys from Rossorubino enoteca did. They stopped, they thought about how and why it was time to change something in their proposal. True, what they were doing liked the clientele, but it conflicted with their idea of ​​catering.
They thus became aware of the fact that they no longer identified themselves in the dishes and recipes they proposed. They asked themselves a few questions, trying to unravel a skein made up of cooking and wine. And they understood that they had to go back to their starting point: the wine, in fact.

But wine alone is not enough, of course. It takes something special and original, something unseen. Thus they started from their Piedmontese origins, or rather Monferrato, from a hamlet of Montiglio, a few kilometers from Cocconato d'Asti, and from the dishes told by recipe of the Schiciola.

The schiciola yesterday and today

In the mid-nineteenth century, Monferrato and Langa were not Unesco World Heritage Sites, but a rural reality that fought against hunger. At the time, resources were scarce and were wisely combined in what we still call today recipes of poor cuisine or of the peasant tradition.
Egg was used to make the fresh pasta dough richer. Is exactly from the agnolotto dough the story of schiciola. When the agnolotti were prepared and the filling was finished, what to do with the scraps of the dough? A intelligent recycling. By frying the strips of pasta in lard you had a nutritious mixture, to be accompanied by a slice of salami or a piece of cheese.

In modern times, talking about lard may seem like a heresy, with the dietician who watches our every step. And, probably, it would be difficult to digest. With the chef Elizabeth Desana, the wine shop team has studied a 2020 version of schiciola recipe: stone-ground type 1 flour from ancient grains, double leavening to improve digestibility, always eggs in the dough, but cooking in the oven, to give crunchiness and lightness .

Thus a poor and simple dish from the past inspired the Rossorubino boys, a sort of tradition that becomes innovation and vice versa. The versatile schiciola: as an aperitif, while drinking a glass of wine, as an appetizer for a dinner, it stimulates sharing, presented in wedges it invites to tasting in company, with different toppings it satisfies everyone, in a traditional or gourmet version.

The schiciola: available every day from Rossorubino, via Madama Cristina 21 in Turin.
Hours: lunch (12-15) Saturday and Sunday, kitchen open from 12 to 17.30, classic menu and sinoira snack.

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Emporio Armani Coffee and Restaurant in Milan: renewed design and gastronomic offer – Italian Cuisine

Emporio Armani Coffee and Restaurant in Milan: renewed design and gastronomic offer


It closed its doors last May, and then reopened with a completely new look both in design and in the kitchen: theEmporio Armani Coffee and Restaurant in Milan he celebrated the reopening last night. Contextually with the Milan Fashion Week, the exclusive event welcomed the reborn local signed Giorgio Armani which, like a phoenix, has returned to give the Milanese and tourists an important point for the food and level hospitality.

Thursday morning, the stylist ambassador of Italian style in the world presented the collection Autumn Winter 2019/20 of Emporio Armani in front of a selected public of professionals e celebrity Which Georgia May Jagger, Olivia Palermo, Ludovica Comello, Eva Riccobono is Serena Rossi. King George, so often called by the foreign press, has imagined the next winter colored red, a color charged and vitamin that "together with white and black, everything that is seen around is so much, it's too much", He told the Corriere. And it is precisely this his search for the discrete good taste and the attitude for timeless elegance that we find in the new local Red Cross street presented the same evening.

Giorgio Armani at the end of the Emporio Armani fashion show (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP / Getty Images)

After the applause on the catwalk, the court of King George has come to discover the renewed space ofEmporio Armani Coffee and Restaurant expanded (a second was added dehors) and completely redesigned by the designer with his infallible team of internal architects. Like the main building, the interior architecture is inspired by some elements of the style thirties, a period appreciated in particular by the designer, going to develop a totally contemporary design. The furnishing elements, the subdivision of the rooms and the choice of colors merge to create a welcoming and refined atmosphere characterized by the Armani lifestyle.

Giorgia Surina at the opening of the Emporio Armani Caffè e Ristorante (Instagram)

New structure

On the ground floor with access via the Red Cross is the new large bar cafeteria where it is possible to taste and buy both fresh pastries of own production and products Armani / Dolci by Guido Gobino. From here (or from the new entrance of Via Giardini) you can access a versatile space, designed for entertainment at any time of the day, from breakfast to Sunday brunch until the aperitif or after dinner. Like an urban sky, the walls are covered with fabric panels of a special iridescent shade between green and blue and are reflected on the dark green of the large square slabs with a 'seeded' effect on the floor. Around the long ribbon bar in champagne-colored lacquered wood, round or rectangular tables take place, accompanied by colored, slightly padded chairs in blue, green or red fabric for an effect of liveliness and movement.

EA Caffè and Ristorante Milano – Caffè interiors (Photo by Beppe Raso)

From the spectacular dark green and gold staircase, you access the upper floor to get to the Restaurant, open for lunch and dinner, preceded by an elegant one champagne bar at the entrance. Here, the color palette continues with softer hues between light blue gray and sage green, enhanced by gently screened natural light. The rectangular tables along the walls are separated by small glass screens with a delicate palm motif, one of the most significant patterns in the collection Armani / Casa. Particularly pleasant and engaging is the visible kitchen thanks to the shaded effect glass. Not a small one is missing private room to allow VIPs or those who wish to have lunch or dinner in an intimate and intimate atmosphere in front of the large dark marble fireplace.

EA Caffè and Ristorante Milano – Restaurant interiors (Photo by Davide Lovatti)

The Emporio Armani Caffè e Ristorante menu

In the fashionable and tourist center of Milan, theEmporio Armani Coffee and Restaurant promises to satisfy the tastes of its international audience through a wide and varied gastronomic proposal. How to Giorgio Armani, the kitchen is Mediterranean and continues to offer a all-Italian menu, where simplicity and lightness give life to a sophisticated and unique taste.

Spaghetti with Volcano Tomato (Photo by Federica Bottoli)

To the Coffee, more informal, the offer is based on a modern and fast card with the most classic, genuine and tasty dishes that have always distinguished the Emporio Armani Caffè – the Saffron risotto, i Spaghetti with tomato sauce or the Milanese cutlet they are made with a care that enhances the simple and special flavors at the same time. Gourmet it is instead the menu of the Restaurant, which mixes tradition with innovation with great skill. And it is in this paper that Italian philosophy is enriched with more typical features and traits of northern, Lombard and other cuisine, always maintaining a balance between meat and fish.

Whole cooked pigeon, red fruit sauce, celeriac puree and apple chutney (Photo by Federica Bottoli)

The research of the highest quality raw materials, the careful preparation of even the simplest proposals, the elegant and essential presentation and the dishes, reflect the pleasure of the table according to Giorgio Armani and are the elements that identify and unite all the Armani restaurants in the world.

Emporio Armani Caffè today it is present in Bologna (we talked about here), Dubai, Milan, Monaco, Paris, Tokyo.

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