D.Behind the scenes of a successful program, anything can happen. He knows it well Bruno BarbieriBolognese cook and historical judge of MasterChef Italy. In all these years of the program (he is the only one always left in the cast, since the first edition of 2011) there has sometimes been talk of disagreements between judges. Now it is Barbieri himself who talks about it. And to tell some funny anecdotes.
Bruno Barbieri and the quarrel with Carlo Cracco “talking about a plate of passatelli with clams”
What could be the reason for a quarrel between two chefs if not a different vision of the kitchen? In an interview with Chiara Maffioletti of Corriere della Sera, Barbieri spoke about his relationship with the other judges of the cooking show most famous of Italy.
Talking about the first edition with Joe Bastianich and Carlo Cracco, he explained. “We were three roosters in a chicken coopbut although it wasn’t always easy, I have many beautiful, funny memories. It always seemed to be on a tightrope. We never argued except once, strongly, Carlo and I talking about a plate of passatelli with clams. But after fifteen minutes of total mess, everything went back to being as if nothing had ever happened ».
The anecdotes about Antonino Cannavacciuolo and Giorgio Locatelli, on the other hand, are different. “They are much more ironic and funny. With Antonino there is a particular feeling and Locatelli is the one who tries to keep the ranks a bitotherwise he and I would joke from morning to night. We also hang out outside, with the cameras off, which was not the case with the other two colleagues … in short, today there is more complicityHe confessed.
Carlo Cracco, Bruno Barbieri and Joe Bastianich during the presentation of the fourth edition of MasterChef, on December 17, 2014 in Milan. Credit: ANSA / MATTEO BAZZIANSA / MATTEO BAZZI
Confessions al Courier: “I was lucky enough to grow up with a mother, a grandmother and two wonderful sisters”
Barbieri is currently busy with his program 4 hotels, returned last September 4 with the first of four new episodes (every Sunday in prime time on Sky Uno). A competition between hoteliers in Italy, to conquer the taste ofexpert of hôtellerie.
The interview is also the occasion, for the only chef in Italy with seven Michelin stars, of retrace part of his childhood. «From an early age I had a certain manual ability. I was lucky enough to grow up with a wonderful mom, grandmother and two sisters. With my grandmother, in particular, we made bread every day, then the preserves … at the age of three I ate tagliatelle with truffles, to say. She and my grandfather managed a plot of land for the curia of Bologna and planted everything there, ”she said.
The father, on the other hand, lived in Spain. “We used to join him in the summer and so I learned to travel from a very young age“. From there, the desire to discover new cultures, like when he decided to start working as a chef on a ship. Until the moment he opened it, together with his friend and teacher Igles Corellithe inn “Trigabolo”, in Argenta (Ferrara): a restaurant that made history. “That kind of cuisine was experimentation, we were that stuff there, that gastronomic change, in the Eighties”.
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