Le Fooding sbarca in Via Tortona il 15 ottobre

Vediamo di tenerlo presente perché il giornalista francese Alexandre Cammas ha scelto Milano per celebrare 10 anni di vita dell’iniziativa. Le Fooding oltre che un evento itinerante è una guida di ristoranti che ha le stesse origini della Michelin ma sembra muovere da presupposti profondamente diversi. Intanto a Milano mischia le performance di chef nazionali e internazionali come Cracco, Bottura, Scabin, Redzepi, David Chang, alla musica di apprezzati dj. Una jam sassion di sapori ospitata negli spazi del design, una buona partenza.

Racconta Alexandre ad Adam Gopnik del New Yorker:

“‘Fooding’ means to eat and drink with feeling—to recognize that one eats with the nose, the eyes, and the mouth, with everything that makes us human! At the time we began, French culinary journalism was narrowly focussed on the cooking of the kidneys, the tenderness of the poularde. What was on the plate was all that counted! But who lives that way? Who eats that way? We wanted cooks who cooked with the whole of their selves and souls, not technicians of the table. French cuisine was caught in a museum culture: the dictatorship of a fossilized idea of gastronomy. And this dictatorship has been enforced by tourism: you have tourists packing in to experience gastronomy in a kind of perpetual museum of edification. We wanted to be outside that, sur le pont, on the bridge, in front, defining everything that is new. We wanted to escape—foie gras, volaille de bresse, all the clichés.”

To be continued…