On June 18, in the solemn setting of the Theatre of the Angelicum of Milan, there was the ceremony of the third edition of the Luigi Veronelli, established by Class Editors and Publisher Veronelli in honor of the greatest Italian food and wine writer and critic who died in 2004.
To receive recognition, the operators (and technical communicators ) In the world of Italian and international deemed particularly deserving from spacious and composite panel.
candidate to win even the wineblogger Elisabetta Tosi ( VinoPigro) , Eric Asimov (The Pour by Eric Asimov ) Luciano Pignataro ( Luciano Pignataro WineBlog) Stefano Buso ( Mangiaeabbina).
A demonstration of how information, including in the wine & food, is increasingly rapidly consolidating and directing the web, not only by the versions on line of magazines and portals, but also thanks to bloggers.
The full list and the reasons for the award:
Best food and wine journalist
career
Antonio Paolini
"for the sharpness with which more than twenty years can go beyond the pure food and wine critic, in his journalistic activities and to cooperate in the restaurant guides, knowing grasp before they become explicit, the costume changes, changes in lifestyle, the revolutions of taste "
Other candidates: Gilberto Arruda, Emanuel Pellucci
emerging
Luciano Pignataro
"in a few years, starting from the wine making book published on the Morning of Naples, with understanding and exploiting the possibilities of the web with a personal website, has managed to become a important reference for everything related to the wine of Campania, while remaining faithful to their vocation as a reporter who knows how to communicate, along with news, even the emotions
Other nominees: Elizabeth Tosi, Stefano Buso
Best food and wine journalist foreign language
Eric Asimov
"wine critic The New York Times, has been able to maintain this prestigious forum, a courageous independence of mind, often placing itself outside of the choir and manifesting, although not a wine writer in the strict sense, a profound knowledge of Italian wine, which claims to appreciate especially when he knows without pretense express the territory from which he came to life "
Other nominees: Michelle Shah, Gilles Pudlowski
Best food and wine writer
career
Luigi Cremona
" for the sincere passion with which an engineer fascinated by food and wine culture, not merely to be a journalist to invent events, maintain a wine guide and restaurants, but was able to dive deeply into the reality of different territories, from Friuli in the province of Rieti, to express the essence of books that have left their mark "
ex- aequo
Joseph Russo
"for the idear of stimulating food, cooking and has published more than ten years ago with his scathing The antigastronomo and cultured, and for the valuable contribution he has made to the history of 'power with his later books, always careful to use and consumer behavior, culminating in the kitchen of the Mediterranean "
Alto candidate: Mario Mariani
emerging
Cetta Berardo
"for the sensitivity with which, among many books of history and criticism which has published, he wanted to dedicate some to the relationship between food and literature, particularly the way where the other one was perceived, with a search that has achieved the most engaging when he fell deeply in the work of a writer of his land, which she loved much, leading the reader to the table Giovanni Arpino "
Other candidates: Barbara Carbone, Emanuela Audisio
Best foreign-language food and wine writer
Gillian Riley
"lover of Italy, has for years been engaged in the study of its food: a study that had already taken 15 years ago to care for a seventeenth-century treatise on herbs and fruits that are eaten in the peninsula, in identifying forgotten author, James Castelvetro, a forerunner of the Mediterranean cuisine, and is now culminating in a beautiful and documented book, published in the U.S. by Oxford University Press, on Italian Food from A to Z "
Other candidates: Jay McInerney, Joanne Harris
Best winemaker
career
Nicodemo Librandi
"for leading with his brother Antonio, and at the expense of their company, a massive recovery operation Calabrian grape varieties in danger of extinction (which are also important wines are born), organized in collaboration with universities, government departments and centers an in-depth scientific research that has already led to three meetings of worldwide, earning the patronage of the OIV, Organisation internationale de la Vigne et du Vin, and obtained encouraging results, generously made available to all producers in the region "
Other candidates: Elisabetta Geppetti, Walter Massa
emerging
Gavino Sanna
"because, after qualifying as the most brilliant Italian advertising by communicating through print, radio and television, is now experiencing communication by means of wine. It does so in his native Sardinia, and not work for others: the wine producing it himself with a company, Mesa, which is co-owner and which has planted 50 hectares of "
Other candidates: Federico Aldrovandi, Moreno Petrini
Best boss
career
Herbert Hintner
"for having played the role of pioneer in the renewal of dining in South Tyrol, turning twenty years ago the Zur Rose of San Michele Appiano from the family restaurant as restaurant of high rank and orienting toward the kitchen creativity, respect for tradition, with such a balance as to become, when it was named the head of young restaurateurs, the leader of the new generation of all Italy '
Other candidates: Pools Mauro, Filippo Chiappini Dattilo
emerging
Andrea Berton
"for quality design and proven management, building on experience gained at Alain Ducasse, Gualtiero Marchesi and Giorgio Pinchiorri, meditation restructuring Trussardi alla Scala restaurant and in the elaboration of a line and a technique of cooking success, succeeding in the most trying times and never failed to express the full potential local creategli the extraordinary position in one of the most prestigious Milan "
Other candidates: Enrico Crippa, Cristian Magri
Best maître
Alessandro Giani
" to be a crucial piece of mosaic in the sample that makes it unique and incomparable Enoteca Pinchiorri: l 'impeccable service that oversees, attentive and caring staff, it is never put in plaster and he knows all kinds of guest at home: a rare feature, which requires great humanity, as well as a keen sense of observation and common organizational skills "
Other candidates: Gisella Eynard, Natasha Santandrea
Best oliandolo
Gionni Pruneti
for constancy in the pursuit of higher quality, which has developed with more and more ambitious goals of the farm family, present in this field for over a century, and choosing the path of the mono-varietal oils, with which reached extraordinary summits, which confirm the validity of the insights of Louis Veronelli.
Other Applicants: Cosimo Tassini, Emanuele Alberghina
Best grappa / distiller
Mario Pojer
"for having always worked as a distiller, in partnership with Fiorentino Sandri, without considering secondary to that of winemaker wine producer , with an innovative spirit that made him be the first in Trentino to produce single-varietal grappa and the first ever to distill seedless grapes, but with a penalty which saw him often controversial with those who transform the distilled spirits sweetness, coloring, flavoring "
Other candidates: Roner family, brothers Rovero
Best wine-maker
career
Dante Scaglione
"for his brilliant achievements in 16 years when he put his expertise to serve as an exceptional winemaker Bruno Giacosa, which was the right arm with exemplary modesty, never showing off. It 's a recognition of this, it receives when he decided to start a new business, as consultant, leveraging the unique experience that has lived with those qualities concrete, no smoke is all substance, which are peculiar to "
Other candidates: Fabrizio Marzi, Stefano Chioccioli
emerging
Massimo Azzolini
"for the commitment she has made and results achieved in firms to which he gives his advice, especially in Trentino, Gavi and the Colli Piacentini, without abandoning this Research and scientific study (in particular on the ability of vines to the land they are grown), with a balanced relationship between the experience in the field and the laboratory would have liked Luigi Veronelli.
Other candidates: Arquint Francesca, Stefano Capelli
Best food artisan
John Verdese
"for continuously produced using artisan honey nougat and glucose syrup, egg whites and gelatin, quality hazelnut Tonda Gentile delle Langhe, peeled and hand selected one by one, more than a hint of vanilla, and having cooked the ' mixture for 12 hours instead of four. The difference is felt: so who is born the myth of nougat Canelin "
Other nominees: Paul Parisi, Gino Galieti
Best label or object table most innovative
Taste-huile
"designed by Lorenzo Piccione di Pianogrillo, olive oil producer, and designed by the designer Köbi Wiesendanger, is a tool stainless steel that allows you to capture the scents and secrets of extra virgin olive oil to taste it so you hear every nuance of aromas, but also has a spout for the direct use of oil at the table instead dell'antiestetica opened bottle. An unusual subject of great elegance that combines function and design "
Other candidates: Identity of Segnabicchieri Pulltex, Long Lever Corkscrew
Best food and wine website
Cronachedigusto.it
" to attract attention this newspaper online enough that it is the first of food and wine of Sicily. But it is the work carried the team gathered round Fabrizio Carrera to stimulate interest and curiosity investigations, reports, tips, interviews, story of products, places and people of food and wine islanders, faced not only with precise skill, but also with a writing coming out from the monotony of training mesh technique
Other candidates: lospicchiodaglio.com, chefdicucinamagazine.com
Best film or broadcasting themed gourmet
Ratatouille
"creative happiness has made this animated film a box office hit, but beyond the box office was the good-natured irony with which dashed lines are typical characters of not only French cuisine, the chef Auguste Gusteau and the food critic Anton Ego, called the Grim Eater, to hit the public, making a fable of the adventures of the rat Remy, who makes his dishes maneuvering a scout for like hair, hence the artistic genius of the creators, a puppet "
Other candidates: A Good Year, The Art of Living (Radio Marconi)
The food festival more interesting or lively or curious
Girotonno
"realized by now the sixth year, the Girotonno has established itself as a festival that goes far beyond the folk festival. Its original formula, which attracts thousands of visitors with its food and mobilizes
journalists across Europe to form the jury of a competition between the chefs of the Mediterranean, has imposed Carlisle as a true capital of the world culture of tuna
Other candidates: Aria di Festa (San Daniele del Friuli), Chili Pepper Festival (Diamond), Chestnut (Marradi)
The most common was active in the preservation of food products
Comacchio
"is not only the community as a public service, who worked for the preservation of its fish products symbol, but the entire community that has kept alive the culture of the eel. The restaurants that offer fish soup, fried, baked, grilled, while the marine version prevails among the local products along the Wine Route and taste of the province of Ferrara. Only this can explain why it believes community mobilization, collective imagination, we can not say without thinking Comacchio eel. And vice versa. "
Other candidates: Malalbergo (asparagus Altedo) Seggiano (olive oil)
The jury also awarded two special awards to two individuals who have made outstanding contributions to their activities .
Special Mention for best host of culinary television transmission
Antonella Clerici
"for having been able to introduce natural elements of material culture in the transfer of strong popular impression as proof of the cook, showing a great sense of entertainment and leveraging on a natural charge of human sympathy that brings to mind the unforgettable Ave Ninchi participation of the transmission at the table at seven Luigi Veronelli "
Special Prize for Best foreign producer of wine Italian in Italy
Carole Bouquet
Actress by vocation, an international star since her teens, was taken to the success of the film That Obscure Object of Desire Luis Buñuel, Carole Bouquet has become husbandmen produced the past (and extra virgin olive oil) with the grapes (and olives) of the 10 hectares of land has to Pantelleria. And it is so in love with the wine and the island has become the ambassador of agricultural products in the world Pantelleria "
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