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Massimo Bottura on Ethics, Aesthetics, and Slow Food
Time Sensitive
English - March 13, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsSociety & Culture culture future the slowdown the slowdown podcast time nature spencer bailey Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Italian chef Massimo Bottura may be a big dreamer, but he’s also a firmly grounded-in-the-earth operator. Based in Modena, Italy, Bottura is famous for his three-Michelin-starred restaurant, Osteria Francescana, which has twice held the top spot on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. He also runs Food for Soul, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting social awareness about food waste and world hunger. With its first Refettorio opened in 2015, Food for Soul now runs a network of 13 Refettorios around the world—from Paris to San Francisco to Naples—designed to serve people in need via food-recovery programs. In 2019, with his wife, Lara Gilmore, he also opened Casa Maria Luigia, a hospitality concept in the Emilian countryside that became the jumping-off point for their new recipes-slash-interiors book, Slow Food, Fast Cars (Phaidon). In everything he does, Bottura keeps the tradition of the Emilia-Romagna region alive while constantly imagining and executing new possibilities.
On this episode, Bottura discusses the art of aging balsamic vinegar; his vast collection of thousands upon thousands of vinyl records; his deep love of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Maseratis; and how he thinks about the role of time, both literally and philosophically, in and out of the kitchen.
Special thanks to our Season 9 presenting sponsor, L’École, School of Jewelry Arts.
Show notes:
[03:27] Food for Soul
[03:27] Refettorio Harlem
[03:27] Refettorio Ambrosiano
[03:46] Universal Exposition in Milan
[15:36] Carlo Petrini
[10:40] Gastromotiva
[12:30] “Chef Massimo Bottura on Why the Future of Food is in Our Trash”
[15:22] Slow Food, Fast Cars
[15:36] Trattoria del Campazzo
[56:07] Casa Maria Luigia
[58:50] Osteria Francescana
[41:32] Cavallino
[41:32] Lo Mejor de la Gastronomia
[43:30] Joseph Beuys
[43:30] Lara Gilmore
[1:01:42] Tortellante