Journey in Italy, the art of the Italian aperitif

Monday 27 May starting at 6pm, the Vignale Residence (via Enrico Toti, 2 – Milan) will host the “Journey in Italy” event, dedicated to the taste of sustainable well-being through a dialogue between the Mediterranean diet and African cuisine with three testimonials exceptional: the starred Chef Heinz Beck, Chef Fatmata Binta and the master ice cream maker Luca Rizzardini.

Thanks to five thematic islands, dedicated to five icons wine, coffee, bread, pasta and ice cream, each participant will be able to better discover their senses and the five emotions of emotional intelligence:happiness, dream, sharing, balance, empathy.It will do so thanks to the suggestions offered by exceptional speakers and the proposals of the Chef Heinz Beck, 3* Michelin of the La Pergola restaurant in Rome, considered one of the best chefs in the world, with a culinary approach that respects the raw materials and the health of his guests.

The Wine icon will present itself at Journey in Italy through three tastings curated by Alessandro Rossi, National category manager wine of Partesa, wine connoisseur, communicator and author of numerous sector publications.

The master ice cream maker will also be the co-protagonist Luca Rizzardini, descendant of a family of ice cream makers who have been working since 1891, which deals with the valorisation of herbs and plants, from woodruff to rhododendron and rhubarb.Rizzardini will be joined by Alessandro Croce, Master ice cream maker.

He will be the guest of honor Chef Fatmata Binta, African representative of the Fulani ethnic group and FAO and UNWTO Ambassador, who had the merit of bringing her culture closer to a tradition that was only apparently so different, also making known the "cereal of the future", the Fonio.Common denominator will be the dialogue between Mediterranean diet and African cuisine, where two cultures with two different food pyramids will meet and talk about each other.At the same time, the "immersive experiences”, seven-minute meetings that will offer suggestions on each of the protagonist products.There will be a creative version of the classic "Cacio e pepe" recipe, a legacy of the successful Cacio e pepe day event, held from 2021 to today.

Thanks to the contribution of Professor Carlo Di Cristo, biologist, researcher, leavening and fermentation scientist, the issues of waste free, circular economy and environmental sustainability will be touched upon with the dough and the "Pane cafone" experience, an ancient form of bread tradition, whose preparation is typical of the culinary tradition of Naples.

Live music by DIA, The voice of Italian soul, an Italian-Canadian singer, will accompany the event.

“The culture of Italian cuisine brings together values ​​such as beauty, taste, design, hospitality, celebration, the sacred.In Journey in Italy we enhance each of these aspects by adding an essential element:self-knowledge, thanks to emotions and one's senses – he states Antonella Bondi, architect, olfactory designer and founder of Journey in Italy with the engineer Ruggero Vittorio Dessi – Among the proposals is the evolution of I'mpasta, born from the desire to recycle the waste from the production of dry pasta by transforming it into a flour with high nutritional value.Another revolution will be the "low sugar" recipe for real artisanal ice cream.We have also activated a partnership with Longarone Fiere Dolomiti, thanks to President Michele Dal Farra and Alessandro Piccinini".

Journey in Italy is a space for dialogue and exchange on food understood as "sustainable wellbeing" a container of culture, art and savoir-faire, but above all how universal resource, available to everyone, for sustainable well-being.A story of the Italian dream, An Italian dream story, under the motto “People see, people do”, that is, if people see and understand, their way of acting also changes.

Journey in Italy will be followed by The grand tour, inspired by the Grand Tour of European travellers, especially Anglo-Saxons, who crossed Europe between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to complete their cultural education.The values ​​of the event will be brought to the world, from the United States to England up to China, to discover the many aspects of Italy, from sustainable tourism to hidden and surprising biocultural riches, up to the different forms of intellectual heritage, a symbol of our country:design, architecture, urban planning, food and wine, art, history, avant-garde.

Journey In Italy 2024 is dedicated to the memory of the great entrepreneur and designer from the 1930s, Vittorio Dessi.