One of the most loved dishes in the world, la carbonara it also comes from one of the most fascinating stories: a story of resilience, of union of cultures, of sharing. Now Barilla tells it, with Carebonara: a short film just released on YouTube shot to the Belgian director Xavier Mayor and with protagonists Claudio Santamaria e Yonv Joseph. They interpret, respectively, the cook and the soldier who in the 40s had the idea of combining the American bacon, Italian pasta and eggs to create a legendary pasta dish: a dish that fed the troops and started a story that is more relevant than ever, which still today unites millions of people.
Carebonara it was born in fact to celebrate a great Italian tradition, celebrated every year also with the Carbonara Day: a whole day, on April 6, of celebrations – now only online – to gather around pasta and feel closer. Barilla has therefore decided to participate in this year’s party, inspired by the most widespread version of the birth of Carbonara, recalling ggreat value of this dish created precisely to take care of people, and unite them.
Just to celebrate the spirit of sharing promoted by Carbonara Day, in 2021 Barilla donerà a Food For Soul – the non-profit organization founded by chef Massimo Bottura and his wife Lara Gilmore – 1 million pasta dishes, thus supporting the mission and projects around the world that it carries out with its Refettore in Europe, America and Asia: places of social inclusion, where anyone in need can sit and eat.
Luca Barilla, Vice President of the Barilla Group, said: «Massimo Bottura, with his wonderful Food For Soul, gave us the opportunity to complete, once again, what should be the mission of a good company: contribute to the well-being of the community. For Barilla, Carebonara has a much more important meaning than simply eating, it is taking care of others by doing it in the way that best represents it, that is, celebrating pasta for its fantastic power to unite people “,
«During the inauguration of the Gastromotiva Refectory in Rio de Janeiro – said Massimo Bottura – we found ourselves facing many unforeseen events: on the evening of the opening we were without water, electricity and gas. We didn’t know how to do it, that evening it seemed really impossible to be able to cook something for the guests. Then I remembered of the commitment I had made a year earlier towards people in difficulty, and the motto that accompanied the opening of the Ambrosiano Refectory – “No more excuses” – did the rest“. «Thanks to this awareness – continued the chef – I was able to look at the pile of banana peels in front of me with new eyes. Thanks to creativity, culture, knowledge and, why not, a pinch of madness, we have used those banana peels to make an incredible dish of carbonara pasta. We cut them into cubes and smoked them until they looked like real bacon, then we added the parmesan that we had brought in our suitcases and the Barilla pasta donated by “Casa Italia”, the Italian Olympic house – the result was amazing. This experience still teaches me today that a recipe can be a real act of solidarity ».
On the cover of this article you can see the trailer. Here, instead, the short in full:
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