"It's a book of recipes, but also of my story, of how I came to be the Davide of today. I'm a boy from a small village of 15 inhabitants who after high school went to work outside in important restaurants. I encountered quite difficult work approaches, rigid environments, where I lacked the humanity that I have always been used to at home. Today young people write to me and thank me for being an example, that of never giving up".
Thus at ANSA Davide Nanni, the chef from Bruzzo who two years ago, in February 2022, published his first 'wild' video of a long series, becoming popular on social media: kneeling, armed with logs, twigs and simple kitchen utensils, he prepares Abruzzo recipes in the woods.
The 32-year-old from Castrovalva, a hamlet of Anversa (L'Aquila), has reached 300 thousand followers on Instagram, but today it is no longer just social media and TV.
From digital, the chef moves on to experiment with analogue with 'A Sentiment.
My free, sincere, wild kitchen '(Mondadori Electa, 216 pp., 22.90 euros): his first book can already be pre-ordered and will be released in bookshops on 27 February.
Among the recipes reported in the volume, also carbonarad'Abruzzo, a reinterpretation of the Roman dish with an Abruzzo twist: "In my opinion, in fact, if this dish had been invented in my region, they would have made it with lamb instead of bacon".
But beyond the recipes, one of the messages he tries to spread is "unity is strength": "A region that I respect so much - he continues - and that I would like the people of Abruzzo to admire is Trentino, because there they have a chain of communication and teamwork between restaurants, hotels and other accommodation facilities, in the name of collaboration, not destruction. In Abruzzo we are fantastic with guests, with customers, but among us who should be creating business we are sharks, we stand on our own out of fear that one person works more than another. In my inn in Castrovalva I only have 25 places and to customers who have to reply 'everything is full' I always recommend some restaurants in the surrounding villages, in Sulmona, Anversa, Scanno, Villalago".
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