Buonissima begins in Turin, the event to discover the beauty and goodness of food

With Very good, from 27 to 31 October, some of the best-known names on the international gastronomic scene arrive in Turin. Chefs of the likes of Ferran Adrià, Massimo Bottura e Ana Roche (queen of the 50 Best) are among the protagonists of an exhibition that is not limited to good food, even if only for the fact of involving symbolic places of the city culture such as the Mole Antonelliana, home to the National Cinema Museum, the Egyptian Museum and the Automobile Museum.

Very good, created by food critics Stefano Cavallito e Luca Iaccarino with Matteo Baronetto, chef of the Del Cambio restaurant, has an ambitious goal: to enhance the gastronomic culture of a city that from the gourmet restaurant to the piola (the Turin-based tractor company) has an inestimable heritage in this area. «Turin is an elegant, beautiful, cultured city, rich in creativity, both in gastronomy and in the arts. The perfect place for an event that wants to open the kitchens and bring together food, culture and beauty ”explain the creators.

An opportunity to reinforce the role of Turin also in the itineraries of gourmand tourists, those who also travel based on the level of food and wine they can find in a place. A tourism, this, already well known in the nearby Langhe and Monferrato, especially in these autumn months when the call of the white truffle of Alba is powerful. There is no shortage of prerequisites, after all: starting with historical names such as Davide Scabin (whose Combal.Zero it is a few minutes from Turin and al Central Market there is an outpost of this visionary chef), passing by the gourmet vegetarian dishes of the Magorabin, up to the “young” of Turin gourmet cuisine that include Alessandro Mecca di Space7 and Fabrizio Tesse and Marco Miglioli of Carignano restaurant.

The official opening event of Very good in Turin coincides with an intervention by Massimo Bottura at the Lavazza Cloud entitled «What is creativity», scheduled for Thursday 28 October at 4 pm. The chef together with Luca Iaccarino and Stefano Cavallito tackles the themes of innovation and creativity in relation to Italian cuisine, trying to understand how new ideas can be found in practice in a world that travels at ever-increasing speed.

Two spectacular dinners

Yes, the adjective is not chosen at random because the two event dinners Very good they combine gourmet food with surprising shows.

The first, Torino Drift, is scheduled for Thursday 28 October at the National Automobile Museum where the mechanical culture and technology linked to motor vehicles Massimo Bottura, who recently inaugurated Il Cavallino near the Ferrari factory in Maranello, is the protagonist of an all-mechanical and speedy dinner . A menu of six «races» in the midst of very fast machines and immersed in the thundering images of the videomapping by Andrea Bisconti – Immersive Media Studio.