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IDENTITÀ GOLOSE, a culinary organization whose mission is to highlight the best of contemporary Italian cuisine, will host its second annual IDENTITÀ NEW YORK at EATALY on October 31st and November 1st.

The two-day congress devoted to Italian gastronomy will showcase Italy’s and America's top chefs, winemakers and artisan producers. Launched in Milan in 2004, IDENTITÀ GOLOSE promotes the culinary excellence of each Italian region and honors the top Italian and American chefs who seek to reinterpret traditional Italian cuisine.

IDENTITÀ NEW YORK will feature two days of cooking demonstrations with 12 top chefs, wine classes from prestigious Italian winemakers as well as tasting events with leading food producers of Italy.

This year’s congress will follow a new format; a stellar line up of Italy’s most acclaimed chefs including Massimo Bottura, Moreno Cedroni, Carlo Cracco, Gennaro Esposito, Davide Scabin, and Emanuele Scarello, will be paired with six of New York City’s top chefs including Mario Batali, Jonathan Benno, Wylie Dufresne, Mark Ladner, Missy Robbins and Michael White to discuss contemporary trends in Italian gastronomy and prepare signature dishes for the attendees to sample.

The two days of exceptional cooking will culminate in a six-course dinner prepared by all 12 chefs and hosted by chef, author, restaurateur, and TV personality Lidia Bastianich at Eataly’s Birreria on November 1st.

“There's a huge demand for products of authentic Italian quality in the world today. We can no longer be satisfied with food that is only superficially Italian or that continues to promote stereotypes from the past," says IDENTITÀ GOLOSE Founder Paolo Marchi. “Our mission at IDENTITÀ GOLOSE is to share with the world Italy’s rich regional cuisines as it is interpreted in a contemporary context by these great Italian Chefs, who also add their own thoughts and unique experiences.”

“We at Eataly are thrilled to be given the opportunity to host IDENTITÀ NEW YORK for the second consecutive year, an event which not only fits within the physical space of Eataly, but which represents a natural marriage with the very core of our establishment,” says Oscar Farinetti, Founder of Eataly. “More than just a culinary showcase, IDENTITÀ is an educational event which honors modern day chefs and explores the processes in which they reinvent traditional recipes and classic techniques every day in their places of work. This collaboration fits organically within the culture of Eataly, which is focused on exploration, learning, and discovery.”

In addition to the cooking demonstrations, there will be 1 hour-long wine classes at La Scuola di Eataly led by some of the most renowned wineries in Italy including: Allegrini, Antinori, Bastianich, Ferrari, Fontanafredda, Frescobaldi and Lungarotti as well as tastings of gastronomic specialties and products from regions across Italy.

For more information or to purchase tickets please call 212-539-0204, Ext. 304 (Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm) or visit www.eataly.com.

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COOKING DEMONSTRATION SCHEDULE
Monday, October 31ST 11:00 AM
2:00 PM
5:00 PM
8:00 PM
Massimo Bottura –Osteria Francescana, Modena, Italy -
Mario Batali – Babbo, Otto, Esca, OsteriaMozza, B&B Ristorante, Del Posto, and other notable restaurants in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Singapore -
Moreno Cedroni – Madonnina del Pescatore, Senigallia, Italy -
Jonathan Benno – Lincoln, New York - .
EmanueleScarello – Agli Amici, Udine, Italy -
Missy Robbins – A Voce, New York -
DavideScabin – Combal.Zero, Rivoli, Italy -
Mark Ladner –Del Posto,New York -

Tuesday, November 1ST 11:00 AM
Gennaro Esposito – Torre del Saracino, Naples, Italy -
Michael White – Marea, New York – www.marea-nyc.com.
 
2:00 PM
Carlo Cracco – Cracco, Milan, Italy - www.ristorantecracco.it.
 Wylie Dufresne – WD-50, New York - www.wd-50.com.

SIX-COURSE DINNER

Tuesday, November 1ST at 7:00 PM

Six-Course Dinner at EATALY’s Birreria prepared by all 12 participating Italian and NYC chefs.
WINE CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday, October 31ST
12:30-1:30 PM Bastianich -  Mirafiore

3:30-4:30 PM Antinori
6:30-7:30 PM Ferrari

Tuesday, November 1ST
12:30-1:30 PM Frescobaldi
3:30-4:30 PM Allegrini
6:30-7:30 PMLungarotti

More than 3500 foodies attended the Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival where Italy was, for the third time in a row, the main international partner. The collaboration between the Italian Trade Commission of New York and the Preservation Society of Newport County has resulted in the successful organization of a series of promotional events that featured top quality wines and authentic Italian food products.

The historic Rosecliff Mansion and Marble House were the majestic locations that framed each happening. Among the several activities presented by the Italian Trade Commission, the seminar “Perusing the Peninsula- An Exploration of the Wines of Italy,” was particularly interesting.

 The event, organized in collaboration with the American edition of the magazine La Cucina Italiana, introduced the 150 guests who attended to a special selection of wines coming from Italian production areas that still are little known to the American market. The tasting, led by Michael Wilson and Ian Wolff, was incredibly successful and raised questions on ideal wine and food pairings.

The seminar welcomed the Consul General of Italy in Boston, Giuseppe Pastorelli, the Deputy Mayor of Newport, Justin McLaughlin, and the CEO of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Trudy Coxe; they all have praised the perfect match between Italian wines and the historic mansions of Newport County.

“A few months ago, the Italian Trade Commission developed two promotional projects on authentic Italian food products and high quality wines. The goal of both is to educate the American market. Specifically, the program Fashion of the Vine aims to promote high quality wines in fashion and lifestyle focused events. Events that interest a young and trendy audience. The other project, Perusing the Penisula - An exploration of the Wines of Italy wants, instead, to promote Italian wines in the major Wine and Food Festivals, held throughout the country outside of the biggest metropolitan areas with the goal to reach a more traditionalist audience thus, in many cases, a slice of the consumer world that is harder to get to. The Italian Trade Commission is a partner of great operational importance to the wide network of American wine importers,” Aniello Musella, Italian Trade Commissioner in New York said.

The Wine and Food Festival of Newport County welcomed several celebrities, who all praised the quality of Italian products. Among them we find Lidia Bastianich, Ray Isle and Mark Oldman.

The importers were also present and their presence was definitely appreciated. Banfi Vintners, Palm Bay Imports, Dark Star Imports, Wine World Wide Inc., Domaine Select Wine Estates, World Wide Wine, Tre Monti Vineyards, Cascina San Cassiano Foods, Dell’Orto Olive Oil, and Cavedoni Aceti Balsamici participated at the Grand Tasting, presenting a wide selection of wines and food, thus confirming the impeccable quality of Italian goods.

The whole country jittery as a squirrel

Had its televisions flickering all night.

This lasted for years and plenty of people

Still keep MSNBC or CNN bedside

Murmuring alerts, just in case

flood or bomb or tornado strikes

Or a mountain range collapses`

In clouds of dust on long chains of valley houses,

white, gray, orange, green, brown.

The young have left TV behind.

When the earthquake shook the college

The secretaries checking CNN found nothing.

Before the desks stopped swaying.

The students were already reading tweets

From Virginia Massachussetts Pennsylvania.

Blood America, now a shark, no longer sleeps.


Robert Viscusi