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Fabrizio Galla is the best pastry chef of the year for APEI – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

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AND Fabrizio Galla to have been nominated Pastry Chef of the Year 2024 during the public seminar of APEI held in Turin on 5 and 6 May. The pastry chef from San Sebastiano da Po (To) has been recognized by Pastry Chef Ambassador of Italian Excellence for “professionalism, research and the desire to share the elegance and excellence that distinguishes each of his creations”.

Who is Fabrizio Galla?

Born in 1973, Galla has to his credit the bronze medal and the special prize for best cake for Jessica (seven layers, from the crunchy hazelnut wafer to the 72% Santo Domingo dark chocolate mousse for a dessert whose name recalls the cartoon character Jessica Rabbit, from the theme of the 2007 competition of the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie of Lyon), but also important professional experiences such as the one at the starred restaurant Del Cambio in Turin. Since 2016 she has been running her own pastry shop in the province of Turin where she makes everything from cakes to miniature excellences every day. «This recognition – comments Galla – means a lot to me. I don’t work for the rewards but because I love my job, but this is undoubtedly a great professional satisfaction for me. An award that tells of a constantly evolving path because I am always looking for stimuli and innovations to create products that make people happy: this is an important reward for me, seeing people smiling in my shop. Currently – he adds – we are working on breakfasts with leavening that develop vertically like the pistachio croissant and, in view of autumn, on interesting proposals with infusions and teas paired with pastries.

Fabrizio Galla and Iginio Massari.

The APEI 2024 public seminar

AND Fabrizio Galla it was but one of the over sixty pastry chefs present within the two days of APEI, the association created and chaired by the master of masters Iginio Massari. An event which, in addition to consolidating and making known the excellence of Italian pastry making, has taken on an even more important meaning in light of the recent approval of the Massari Law: «law which finally establishes the official recognition of the professions of pastry chefs, chefs and artisans of the food: an objective that I pursued personally to put Italy on a par with France and other large countries”, explains the creator.

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Italian Cuisine at Identità Golose: a success again this year – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

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Many have stopped by to browse the pages of our newspaper and everyone has shared a memory or feeling related to The Italian kitchen: there are those who told us about copies and copies neatly arranged and bound in their grandmother’s living room, those who told us about when during their years of hotel school they only read our magazine, those who, still today, never miss a trip and enjoy the ritual of going to the newsstand every month to buy it, who finally remembers it, authoritatively, on a bookcase next to the Treccani encyclopedia.

Carlo Cracco leafs through the pages of a 1942 issue with Angela Odone.

We wanted to play a game with everyone, look for the cover of their month and year of birth, to find out what they published The Italian kitchenwhen each of them was born.

Here are some of them holding “their” cover in their hands, in a roundup full of smiles, affection and sometimes emotion.

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The Chinese New Year is coming: the dishes to celebrate it – Italian Cuisine

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It falls each year at a different time on our calendar, but always between January 21 and February 20. In this 2022 the celebrations for the Chinese New Year they start from February 1st and will last for the following 16 days, ending with the Lantern Festival. Two weeks full of celebrations, rites and events that welcome theyear of the Tiger, the sign of the Chinese zodiac that, in the next 12 months, will foster shrewdness and courage by replacing the Buffalo, a symbol of resilience, which accompanied us in 2021.

Great party on the table and in the street
Like all popular celebrations, the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, has its highlight in banquets to share with family and close friends in the name ofabundance: literal, with a number of superfine courses, but also metaphorical, with the use of ingredients that symbolize the prosperity. As for the western anniversary, the most magical evening is that of Vigil, with a rich man dinner among the domestic walls, lanterns to decorate streets and clubs and pyrotechnic games to illuminate the skies. To dominate mise en place and color arrangements Red, universal good luck charm.

Noodles, rice and dim sum
Unmissable on Chinese tables, they are no exception in festive ones: we are talking about noodles And dim sum. The former can be made of wheat, rice or potato starch, translucent like those of soy. The toppings are always rich with meat, mushrooms, dried fish, spring onions and spicy touches of chilli. THE dim sum are the typical ravioli, or jaozi, bundles, rolls and bao (soft sandwiches) with a thousand shapes and the most varied fillings. Also dishes based on enrich the table rice: sauteed with meat and vegetables or in the form of gnocchi (niangao), both salty and sweet, obtained from the "glutinous" one.

Sea and land specialties
Among the dishes that cannot be missed, the fish (whose word in Chinese sounds just like "abundance") and the finest fish specialties. Whether one of the most typical courses remains the controversial one shark fin soup (increasingly criticized because it puts sharks at risk of extinction), there is no lack of more sustainable alternatives such asabalone, particular monovalve mollusk, the oysters, i shrimp, lobsters and lobsters, sea bass, groupers and freshwater varieties such as perch, steamed and finished with elaborate sauces. A curious specialty is the "Squirrel fish", one carp carved and fried, served still sizzling, which resembles the shape of the animal and produces a "creak" similar to a squeak. They come from the farmyard duck And chicken, who keep company with pig, a symbol of prosperity around the world. The meats can be used in soups, in the fillings of ravioli or, as mentioned, in the condiments of vermicelli, spaghetti or lamian, the special hand-rolled noodles. But also be marinated, glazed, lacquered, roasted, plated: many preparations for sumptuous dishes of earth that are mixed on the table to be shared among the diners, in perfect "sharing" style.

How to toast?
According to tradition, even during the holidays you dine at you or, at most, sipping distillates of rice or other cereals. As the Fenjiu, made with sorghum, barley and peas, aged in terracotta jars, with which to toast at the restaurant Dao di Roma which, in its Christmas Eve menu, offers among others i Baozi Cha Sha Bao, small bundles of soft dough. However, in recent years, even in China, an increasing interest in wine has been developing and the most refined restaurants are starting, even here, to offer highly respectable bottles. Thus, in Milan Bon Wei combines a selection of Amaroni from the Historical Families, the Association that brings together the most important and ancient wineries of Valpolicella: an unexpected but successful marriage with dishes such as crispy yellow grouper with black garlic, duck Yan Shui boiled "water and salt", the rib of beef Guo Qiao with black pepper and taro, a battered and fried tuber, served with a pork and chili sauce. Brianza MU Fish, Nova Milanese's address for Asian fusion cuisine, accompanies the dim sum of its celebratory menu with the effervescence of Lambrusco Doc Spumante. Two proposals very much in line with what is happening in the East, where reds are much more appreciated than whites. Although we (and many sommeliers) would like to recommend a great Classic Method, from Franciacorta to Trentodoc. For a cheers … to the health of the Tiger!

Francesca Romana Mezzadri
January 2022

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