It will be produced in only 1500 numbered pieces, it might be purchased by reservation only at a cost of € 54 per kilo it historic Panettone signed by the great master of Italian signature cuisine Gualtiero Marchesi.
A Vincenzo Tiri will make it happen the famous leavening chef, born in 1981 in Acerenza, champion over the years of national recognitions such as best panettone of the year, with its innovative method that involves 3 kneading phases and 72 hours of processingand who opened in Potenza the first pastry shop in the world selling only leavened sweets, winner, in October 2021, of the prestigious World Pastry Star, an international award dedicated to the world of pastry making.
It was the great Gualtiero Marchesi who passed on his scepter to him when ten years ago, during a food and wine event, he tasted Vincenzo Tiri's panettone and decided to entrust the Lucanian pastry chef with his recipe. Since then Vincenzo Tiri, year after year has produced, always respecting the recipe of the Master, leavened products of the Marchesi Foundation made, every Christmas in a few numbered pieces. Tiri says: 'I was in the lab and I received a phone call from an unknown number. I answered, and when the person on the other end of the line told me it was Gualtiero Marchesi I thought it was a joke. But I had to change my mind. Marchesi told me that he had been making his panettone since the 80s but that, after tasting it, he was enthusiastic about my leavened product for its quality, balance and lightness and that he wanted to entrust me with the creation of his recipe. A challenge that continues to honor me and that I face, season after season, always with the same commitment and respect. He loved the gold color very much and wanted his leavened product to have a beautiful intense yellow paste. Even today I use selected yellow-paste eggs to respect this desire of his.'
The leavener to whom Marchesi entrusted his recipe was revealed only this year: it is the award-winning Vincenzo Tiri
Ten years have passed since then and on the occasion of this sweet anniversary, which also coincides with that of Accademia Gualtiero Marchesi, the Foundation has decided not only to declare the name of the author of its leavened product but, together with him, to create a special edition of it. Maestro Vincenzo Tiri continues: 'I have always philologically respected the recipe given to me by Gualtiero. A classic and very balanced recipe to which it is impossible, objectively, to make significant improvements. And in fact This year's edition has not been improved but enriched with a precious blend of vanillas that gives it a particular and elegant aromatic touch. After all, panettone for Maestro Gualtiero Marchesi was much more than a simple dessert. For him, it embodied not only the most authentic Milanese style but also, and above all, that approach to the recipe and taste made of rigor and essentiality. In line with his thought, the choice to make the collaboration with Vicenzo Tiri known while waiting for the realization of other collaborations to come. The Panettone Gualtiero Marchesi 2024 edition, accademia@marchesi.it . the proceeds from the sale will go to support the cultural activities of the Gualtiero Marchesi Foundation.
The Marchesi Foundation: promoting training and improvement activities for correct nutrition as a factor of human, civil and democratic growth
La Since 2010, the Gualtiero Marchesi Foundation has aimed to enhance, promote and spread all forms of art as a characteristic cultural element of Italy, from painting to sculpture, theatre, music, and including "cooking" as a form of art included in the idea of “beautiful and good”, as a factor of human, civil and democratic growth. The Foundation is therefore aimed, on the one hand, at professionals working in all the arts, promoting training and improvement activities and on the other at children with the aim of bringing them closer to the arts, of educating them in aesthetic, musical and good food taste, spreading the culture of beauty and goodness, and of food culture in general, the foundation of a healthy and correct diet. The Foundation, which is a non-profit organization, pursues exclusively civic, solidarity and socially useful purposes by carrying out exclusively or predominantly activities of general interest pursuant to Legislative Decree 117/2017. After the teaching experience with ALMA in 2014 Gualtiero Marchesi decided to create “his” Academy in the historic via Bonvesin de la Riva, because he realized that only in this school could he freely decide the training plans and the choice of teachers, without compromise. Thus Bonvesin de la Riva becomes a place of study, learning and experimentation where chefs are trained and the principles of healthy eating are disseminated, where cooking and art, in all its manifestations, can contribute to the definition of good and beautiful. The academy has the main role of training young people in professional cooking by giving them the necessary tools to be able to enter the kitchens of the best Italian restaurants belonging to the Le Soste Association founded in 1982 by the Maestro. Furthermore, The Academy offers various levels of training to chefs who already know the fundamentals and wish to refine their skills, putting themselves on the line beyond simple skill, the possibility of undertaking a path where, alongside the way of cooking, one can also glimpse the meaning of cooking. In Bonvesin de la Riva, cooking lessons and courses are also held dedicated to anyone interested in approaching cooking in the correct way, team building events, meetings with the press, events of various kinds and special dinners dedicated to the Great Cuisine of Gualtiero Marchesi.
