At the 1978 Restaurant in Rome, the chef proposes to "brush your teeth" with a lasagna cream, as he did as a child. A childhood memory turned into a dish (provocative)
Very young and eclectic winner of MasterChef in 2017, for a year Valerio Braschi is the chef of 1978 restaurant in Rome. And it is his culinary provocation which these days is animating the world of gastronomy inside and outside the social networks, that is lasagna in a tube. That's right, one of the dishes par excellence of the Italian tradition served as if it were a toothpaste. Aware of being so daring, when the twenty-three year old posted his creation on social media he got his hands on: "Maybe a bit extreme for purists," he wrote. "But I can assure you that, despite the change in appearance and texture, the taste has remained intact".
Lasagna in a tube (but also a pasta brush and broth mouthwash)
And to say it is not only the inventor of the dish, but also a Romagna doc. The idea came to him from the memories of his childhood (he is originally from Santarcangelo di Romagna) when the morning after the holidays he happened to do breakfast with leftovers of the day before, including a portion of lasagna. How to brush your teeth with that flavor, in short. There was no shortage of negative comments on the creation on social media, but the chef assures that customers liked the idea, so much so that Valerio then decided to accompany the lasagna toothpaste to one egg paste toothbrush and to a Parmesan broth mouthwash 60 months and 180 months.
Lasagna 2021 it is part of the tasting menu Valerio 2k21 (10 courses for 100 euros): «The total transformation of a great Italian classic, explains the chef. «This is the beauty of our work. The thing that strikes the people who work with me is to do new things every day, experiments, combinations .
The best ingredients of the agro-pastoral tradition, from pecorino to saffron, are the pillars of the menu and the Centofanti have also collaborated with the Region for the re-launch of local products. Like the Saragolla wheat used for noodles: hard, amber, low-gluten and naturally bio grain because it resists pests.
Virtuous ties