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Massimo Bottura is one of Italy's most celebrated chefs. He is the owner of Modena-based three Michelin star restaurant, Osteria Francescana, and he is always in the news when it is time to discuss Italian traditional and innovative cuisine.   This year, he has been chosen as the 2016 European Chef of the Year. The award was presented during...

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Massimo Bottura, the award-winning chef behind the famed Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, believes that cooking is about more than just putting quality ingredients together ― "cooking is a call to act," he says.   During Milan's Universal Exposition, or Expo 2015, Bottura created an off-site project to reduce food waste. In collaboratio...

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The Italian chef Massimo Bottura has been awarded the prize of The European Chef of The Year at the Madrid Fusion culinary congress. Organisers say Bottura was picked as the recipient of the award for the solidarity work he undertook during Expo Milano - in which he was one of the Ambassadors.   His main project, Refettorio Ambrosiano,...

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This week, The World's 50 Best Restaurants for 2016 were announced in New York. For the first time, an Italian restaurant took the top spot: Osteria Francescana, in Modena. We caught up with its mad genius chef, Massimo Bottura, to talk about his work—and about winning food. Each week on Condé Nast Traveler's podcast, Travelogue, we discuss where...

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The Italian Trade Commission is counting down to the celebration of LAMBRUSCO, a stellar Italian wine, this June 27th featuring some of Italy's and the US's most celebrated Chefs!   THE SCOOP: Chef Cesare Casella, Dean of Italian Studies at the International Cuinary Center and leader of Itchefs-GVCI in the USA will once more be a part of th...

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If Italy's most celebrated modernist chef is coming over to make brunch, don't be surprised if he shows up packing a sleek nitrous oxide siphon. It's just for the bread crumb foam.   Massimo Bottura, the energetic chef and owner of the three-Michelin-star Osteria Francescana, in Modena, arrived at my Brooklyn kitchen with a motley tool kit....

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Modena-based Osteria Francescana has once again clinched a top spot in the annual awards for the world's 50 best restaurants. The restaurant lost out only to Renè Redzepi's Copenhagen-based Noma which reclaimed the number one slot and Spain's El Celler de Can Roca which came in second.   Last year the four-time Danish winner lost out to...

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Prende il via lunedì prossimo, 4 marzo, il primo appuntamento di "A Taste of Italy", l'iniziativa, inserita nel programma dell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, organizzato dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri dall'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington e dai nostri Consolati negli USA ed inaugurato lo scorso dicembre, a cura delle 7 Eccellenze...

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Si è aperto ufficialmente ieri a Washington, alla presenza del Ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi, di autorità americane e rappresentanti del mondo diplomatico, culturale e economico della capitale Usa, l'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, organizzato dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri. Un viaggio lungo un anno che durerà per tutto il 20...

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USA chiama Italia e le sue eccellenze enogastronomiche rispondono: il Belpaese, la terra dal clima mite, famosa in tutto il mondo per la sua storia, la tradizione, i suoi valori che vivono tra passato e contemporaneità e poi la sua "ars vivendi", il tanto amato, soprattutto nel mondo, italian style, sarà rappresentato negli Stati Uniti da sei eccel...

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