ROME - It has a touch of international and experimental, seasoned with "native" menus, pride of made in Italy, Easter 2021 for Italians, a holiday marked by a coronavirus that struggles to reverse in the country and by the health emergency that imposes the area red protection on the day of recurrence with the obligation to stay at home.
The cuisine and the new delivery and takeaway trade formulas adopted by restaurants for the containment rules of Covid-19 offer the opportunity to try dishes and food and wine news in order to find a good mood.
On the table of the party are therefore ready to arrive, upon order, boxes sewn to perfection for compatriots tried by the pandemic with menus characterized by regional to international proposals and an offer that ranges from arrosticini to homemade lasagna with artichokes - Romanesque and buffalo from Paestum up to the poke.
For the most demanding, the starred proposal is also possible, among which the one of the Il Pagliacco restaurant in Rome with chef Anthony Genovese at the helm with the Home Experience Box or that of the catering of the starred restaurant Enoteca la Torre in Villa Laetitia , also from Rome, which offers a collection of their Eat Me Boxes, gourmet boxes to be shared at home with delivery also in Milan.
In the North, among the many cases, "Chef in streaming" by the Butticé brothers of Il Moro di Monza is proposed to cook together with the chefs in live streaming, as if you had a personal chef at home.
The exploit of experimentation, however, is more evident in the field of sweets and pastry with imaginative and international proposals, as well as national ones.
Among the many proposals it is offered the possibility of trying to order, for example, the Colomba with Matcha Tea or the Colomba Shizuku, a mixture of cocoa and hazelnut paste, enriched with hazelnut cremino and candied ginger, all completed by cocoa ice. and hazelnuts and proposed by Hiromi Cake, a Japanese pastry shop in Rome and Milan.
In the sphere instead of the chocolate eggs, the chance to taste the Hiromi Egg, a Valhrona dark chocolate egg with a surprise inside, and the Matcha Egg, a chocolate and Matcha egg, also proposed by Hiromi Cake, has advanced.
There is no shortage of possibilities, for those suffering from food intolerances, with Grezzo Raw Chocolate, Raw Chocolate Pastry that presents the 2021 collection of raw, vegan and organic Easter eggs, lactose and gluten free, made with unroasted cocoa beans from the Amazon forests , also called Raw Chocolate Eggs.
The product can be purchased online.
Returning instead to international desserts, the Tarte Tropézienne de Le Carré Français in Rome is proposed, a dessert that conquered the actress Brigitte Bardot and created, based on a recipe from her grandmother, by the Polish pastry chef Alexandre Micka residing in Saint Tropez.
The national front, on the other hand, winks at the designations of origin with the Giusti Colomba with Balsamic Vinegar of Modena from Acetaia Giusti, which can be purchased from the online shop.
As per tradition, there is also a proposal for a pastiera, a dessert that mainly marks Easter in central and southern Italy.