It is 1990 when Martin Scorsese signs the direction of one of his most famous films, Goodfellas (Goodfellas)on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 American films. The gangster movie is based on the novel by Nicholas Pileggi Crime pays well and is written by the author himself together with Martin Scorsese.
The extraordinary concentrate of Italian-American origins starts from the author of the novel, continues with the screenplay and direction and reaches the choice of the main protagonists: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Paul Sorvino and Lorraine Bracco.
It's just with Paul Sorvino that Il Palato Italiano, during one of the company's recent US trips, had the opportunity to share its identity: the love for traditional Italian cuisine and the attachment to the territories of origin that were the starting point for discovering united by many passions.
In these days The Italian Palate hosts the American actor and his wife Dee Dee Sorvino at the Bolzano office where, on Friday 20 January, a gala dinner conceived by Chef Filippo Sinisgalli and inspired by seasonality was held. The eight-course itinerary will feature some of the agri-food products belonging to the selection of the Italian Palate. Among the guests of the evening the councilor for culture of the Municipality of Bolzano, Sandro Repetto; the Pavarotti Foundation represented by the artistic director Maestro Andreoli and by the soprano Elisa Maffi, who added a prestigious lyrical interlude entitled Taste of Opera, in homage to Paul Sorvino's passion for Italian bel canto.
In the following days the American artist, helped by Chef Filippo Sinisgalli and from the kitchen brigade, he will try his hand at the stove; it is therefore easy to imagine that in the kitchen of the Italian Palate you will breathe the air of a film set and, more than a quote, will bring everyone back to the atmosphere of Goodfellas.
Paul Sorvino's presence in Italy could not fail to translate into the opportunity to make a journey back to his roots that will lead him from Bolzano to Naples.
The American actor, accompanied by the Bertani family and the Palato Italiano team, will live the experience of Explorebo, a tailor-made itinerary that the company creates according to the tastes and desires of the guest. Generally offered on the international market, Explorebo satisfies the passion of the many food-lovers who sooner or later decide to experience the pleasure of the most authentic Italian tastes in the land where they were born.
Paul Sorvino will therefore also, as he feels the Neapolitan atmosphere get closer, will have the opportunity to experience high quality food and wine stages and the opportunity to get to know the realities of some of the meticulously selected agri-food producers.
His enthusiasm, combined with the many emotions he will receive from this experience, will make him an even more proud ambassador of the Italian spirit at the table in the United States.
