Alessia, my companion during   haute cuisine at the school  Altopalato , sends me the photo that captures the moment of delivery of the diploma. As usual, I really have a face like a fool: ape over the lens expresses all my discomfort. For me though, is a beautiful memory that symbol the end of a journey that began eight weeks ago and that ended with a nice dinner, prepared during a whole afternoon. 
 Beside me the master chef Lucio  Caporarello , whose skill is not just to have that wealth of technical knowledge and ingredients that all cooks should have, but also in the ability to patiently transmit his knowledge. Affair is not easy to repeat endlessly concepts maybe just before an audience a bit 'undisciplined, yes, because with the passage of time, students become well together and therefore more distracted by talk that is good food! Credit where credit is, therefore, and thanks for all the lessons that has been able to send me to correct mistakes by his watchful eye, for the fish unnecessarily because scaled were prepared filets, for vegetables unnecessarily reduced to  brunoise  seen going past and, above all, for a pound of peas, which, to me, Paul and Sonia, had to peel a   a big dinner for the ending! Obviously, you want to make a difference?! :-) 
 Alongside Lucio, Terry  Sarcina , in all its elegance, and I do not mean that many women even have a Valentino dress   can give. I refer to his savoir-faire  , the way she moves into the kitchen, gestures with disabilities, but graceful and his warmth. It is worth emphasizing because it is genuinely fond of her. On the left you also see 
  Toni Sarcina  that cheers every dinner at the end of the course with his knowledge, anecdotes, and tasty beats. 
 This was my second year in Altopalato and certainly not the last because I enjoy, I relax and learn a lot. And the gap between those who seek to provide "similar" is felt even more so when it is  abituati all'eccellenza. Altopalato non è 
  una semplice scuola, ma un   centro di cultura   con la solida 
  esperienza di una trentina di anni: ciò che si percepisce da subito è 
  l'intento di diffondere la cultura del mangiar bene, dello stare a tavola, della 
  convivialità e mai si ha la sensazione che questo venga fatto a scopo 
  di lucro. Purtroppo, non sempre è così, anzi spesso ci si imbatte 
  in esperienze deludenti, se non addirittura inutili considerata la facilità 
  ad improvvisarsi tipica degli italiani, soprattutto in quei settori dove si 
  può struttare l'onda del successo. L'arte  dell'arrangiarsi è una 
  qualità che apprezzo del mio popolo, ma il pressapochismo unito alla 
  bramosia di far soldi non mi piacciono affatto. 
 
 
     
 Ma passiamo alla descrizione della buonissima e raffinata cena. Da sinistra 
  a destra: "Tian" di capesante, spätzli con piselli e asparagi, 
  petti di faraona farciti,   friandises   e spuma a sorpresa (per la ricetta 
  di questo dolce vi faccio attendere un po' :-)). Oltre a questi piatti c'era 
  anche una deliziosa macedonia di ortaggi e, a precedere la cena, un aperitivo 
  consumato nello studio di Toni Sàrcina, composto da many tastes delicious. 
is increasingly rare to find someone who carries out his work with passion, almost needle in a haystack those teachers who are doing their utmost to ensure that students really learn: Altopalato for me to find myself in, that is, with good and wonderful people, was a great success. It begins in the fall!
 Stephen writes of his work:  "This is not a cookbook, is not autobiography, nor even a historical essay and a search of manners. Or rather, it is all these things put together. ". First, the most salient episodes of his life, the author offers us the glimpse of half a century of Italian history, as the economy, politics and social transformation are marked by culinary fads and fashions that characterized the five decades considered: it starts from 'hard' years 50, which emphasizes the fear of the people against the specter of hunger and then move to the "fabulous" 60's, those of the economic boom that is reflected in the abundant pasta dishes and the introduction of hitherto inaccessible . It continues with "subversives" and the '70s with the advent of alternative food systems as opposed to food  "symbol and emblem of the affluent society" . You get to the "unnecessary" 80 years, marked by a certain loss of food, the contrast between the physical and muscular supertonici of actors and supermodels, and the bellies of the political class. It ends with the '90s, with its trials, with the novelty of ethnic cuisines and the rediscovery of the healthy, natural, to complete a cycle that began nearly half a century before, thanks to new interpretations of many foods "poor", of which there are now no longer ashamed. In this analysis socioantropologica intersect perfectly scenes regarding the family in which the author, although I missed the first decade and a bit more, I have fully recovered, including the fact that single-issue ordering dishes in restaurants and gullible enough! And more than catapult nostalgically in the past, I laughed because of its ironic mockery of a bizarre  "as we were"  and the banning of certain dishes fortunately fallen into oblivion; but I also moved and excited to find places, songs, advertising. A