When you see that a family, father, mother and two kids, sit at the counter of the restaurant-pizzeria at Harrods and one of the children is happy to eat Chicken and wild-mushroom penne served in a creamy sauce while drinking a big glass of cold milk, you’re sure there’s still much to do so that Italian high quality cuisine will become established around the world.
We at Identità shared that same space on the last week of October, 5 days of Identità London focused on Simone Padoan and Franco Pepe’s gourmet pizza. There’s no need for James Bond to understand that what most tourists and English people like is seemingly Italian cuisine.
Not that in the restaurants of many Italian art and tourism towns anything particular is being served. It’s just that over here there’s plenty of alternatives, while in the British capital there’s not. So Pepe’s Sole nel piatto or Padoan’s Dalla terra al mare (due to the presence of raw red prawns from Mazara) take the form of flying saucers.
It was the third event inside Harrods. The pizzeria doubled and one of the two areas, the Canti Bar to be precise, with its wood oven, hosted Identità di Pizza Gourmet.
Pepe prepared Margherita sbagliata, Sole nel piatto and Tomatoes treat, a vegetarian version of Sole.
Padoan, instead, Margherita Tigli-style, Dal mare alla terra and Giardino vegetariano.
All this was made possible thanks to Acqua Panna – S.Pellegrino, Birra Moretti, Chiara Quaglia and Piero Gabrieli of Molino Quaglia – Farine Petra, Lavazza, Consorzio del Grana Padano, with prosecco Canti served in this space. A special thank you goes to Rebecca Boland and Giuseppe Silvestri of Harrods, as well as Domenico Della Salandra, our globetrotter chef.
Paolo Marchi
source: http://newsletter.identitagolose.it/email.php?id=561
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