Not only Manneskin, not only European football, not only Berrettini, not only European volleyball and softball, the Italy of records is experiencing its golden moment, and now it has conquered another one: the best young chef in the world is Italian world.
Is called Matteo Cignetti, 19 years old, pupil of the École Hôtelièrand the Valle d'Aosta of Chatillon: with him the Italy team conquered the gold medal of the 2022 Young Chef Olympiad, beating a fierce competition from 42 countries from all over the world.
Last year student of the Ecole hotelière de Chatillon was awarded in live streaming during a ceremony of the organizing committee which is located in India.
Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the competition was held in stages online.
The medals that the young champion pinned on his chest in a short time are impressive: he first won the title of best student in the regional championship, then best student in the Fabrizio Faccio trophy in June 2021, then best Italian student in 2021 and gold medal with the best overall result in the competition held last November in Treviso and now also the gold medal at the Olympics dedicated to young talents from all over the world. Italy had never before conquered the podium of the Young Chef Olympics and had never even reached the final. "It was very strange - said Cignetti - competing with the online formula because you don't see how the other competitors work, you don't see their dishes, you can't compare and exchange ideas and experiences, an aspect that I had instead appreciated during the national competition"
But how is the cooking of this very talented XNUMX-year-old? "My dishes, my approach to cooking - he declared - reflect two souls: on the one hand, the love for enjoyable, rich, "round" food, on the other, the awareness that food should not be, it is not just comfort. It must make you reflect, reason". Formula – as far as we have seen – winning.
