This year’s program features chefs from Italy, Austria, Catalonia, Japan, Mexico, Russia and Uruguay
The Academic Tables, the innovative dining hall project run by the University of Gastronomic Sciences, will feature a host of women in 2019. Of the 15 restaurants invited to showcase their cuisine at Pollenzo, seven are run by female chefs, while three are managed by women.
World cuisines will also be well represented, with chefs coming from Italy, Austria, Catalonia, Japan, Mexico, Russia and Uruguay to cook at UNISG’s Pollenzo campus, outside Bra in Piedmont, Italy.
A three Michelin-starred restaurant and two restaurants with one star each will also be sending their chefs, along with four osterias with Slow Food snails.
Two of the chefs will be returning to familiar ground: UNISG alumni Mattia Angius (who works alongside Martina Miccione, another former Pollenzo student) and Giacomo Hassan.
The new 2019 calendar for the Academic Tables was presented on Wednesday February 13 at 12 noon in UNISG’s Aula Magna. The guest of honor at the launch was talented young Mexican chef Karime López, chosen by Massimo Bottura to run the kitchen at his Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in Florence.
Karime was also the first chef to take over the Academic Tables kitchens this year, bringing flavors from her native Mexico filtered through her diverse international experience.
This is the seventh year of the Academic Tables, a unique concept driven by learning and sustainability that grows richer every year thanks to contributions, ideas and initiatives from around the world.
As in past years, once again the Academic Tables will host not just professional chefs but also cooks from migrant communities living in the local area, as well as the “10 Menus for 10 Students” initiative, which involves university students preparing a series of dishes that represent both their homelands and their exchanges with fellow classmates in Pollenzo.
Along with Karime López, the calendar was also presented by Eugenio Signoroni, the editor of the Slow Food’s Italian Osteria Guide. Also speaking were Nicola Perullo, Professor of Esthetics at UNISG and scientific supervisor of the Academic Tables, and Carlo Petrini, the university’s president.
Here is the list of chefs who will be cooking at the Academic Tables in 2019:
Italy
Mattia Angius || Tipografia Alimentare, Milan | Italy
Karime López || Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura, Florence | Italy
Alberto and Marina Bettini || Amerigo 1934, Valsamoggia (BO) | Italy | @ Osterie d’Italia | * Michelin
Patrizia Corradetti || Zenobi, Colonnella (TE) | Italy | @ Osterie d’Italia
Antonia Klugmann || L’argine, Dolegna del Collio (GO) | Italy | * Michelin
Maurizio e Grazia Rossi || La Villetta, Palazzolo sull’Oglio (BS) | Italy | @ Osterie d’Italia
Federica Rossini || I Cacciatori, Cartosio (AL) | Italy | @ Osterie d’Italia
Nadia Santini and family || Dal Pescatore, Canneto sull’Oglio (MN) | Italy | *** Michelin
International
Gottfried Bachler || Bachler, Althofen | Austria
Mitsu Chonan || Chikeiken, Mount Haguro | Japan
Igor Grischechkin || CoCoCo, St. Petersburg | Russia
Giacomo Hassan || Bar Veraz, Barcelona | Catalonia, Spain
Enrique Olvera || Pujol, Mexico City | Mexico
Rafael Peña || Gresca, Barcelona | Catalonia, Spain
Laura Rosano || Ibira Pita, Canelones | Uruguay
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