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PaoloF

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About Me

I was born in Torino --the latest winter Olympics seat in 2006-- 43 years ago.

In Torino I attended the Lycée and the faculty of Laws.

When I was 16, I went with a friend of mine to the legendary Enoteca Pinchiorri's in Florence, during a trip with our school. Our bill was thereabout 800€ at the current rate: we were two teen-agers maniacs since then about food&wine! We needed a cab to reach the other companions at Orsammichele historic site, having enjoyed two beautiful bottles of wine: a local white and a sangiovese from Umbria. We'were a bit hammered but it was so relaxing!

I travelled a lot during my twenties, discovering different cultures and always appreciating the local food: Senegal, Mexico, India, Philippines above all. In Europe I've visited more than 30 times to France, whose culture and civilisation a like a lot, its wonderful cuisine obviously included!

I ran a restaurant in Italy, in my Piemonte, close to Asti, the Monferrato wine district's capital. The "Canestrello d'Oro" has been ranked among the 1000 top restaurants in Italy, after a very hard but very proud job, mentioned by several guides, such as "Espresso", "Luigi Veronelli", "Paolo Massobrio", "Accademia Italiana della Cucina".

When I closed in 2004 --because of family's questions-- I worked in another restaurant in Asti, but at the same year'send I decide to change my business.

Thanks to Ed Mc Gaugh's suggestion (the "Swiss chef", for e-Gullet viewers), I started in 2006 the "Buongustotours Project": an unique kind of incoming, for very little groups of tourists (average: a couple) passionate about food&wine and willing to discover a different but very interesting corner of our beloved Italy: the Piemonte. I'm a "gastronomic-guide" who custom-designs with his clients their itinerary through wineries, restaurants, farms, natural or artistic beauties, real local people willing to meet people from abroad to share experiences and different points of vue about our different civilisations. The result has been surprisingly positive, especially for what concerns the nice and interesting people I've met. Consider that the true "highlight" of the Buongusto tours is the farewell Dinner at my home, when we cook together, cheering our glasses to a new, unespected friendship!

From this project --that let me tour 15 groups last year-- was born my second business: writing cook-books.

Together with two friends --Mrs. Toni Hilton and Mr. Leonardo Tessiore -- we released a bilingual cook-book entitled "Monferrato mio!", focused on traditional cookery of our land, the Monferrato. More than 50 recipes translated in English with a final Glossary that tries to explain the basics of Piemontes cuisine.

This year, waiting, this damn' Euro permitting!-- for the new clients, I'm writing a second book, dedicated to the Langhe's cookery and to the works of one of the most important authors of last century's Italian Letters, the Alba-native Beppe Fenoglio: I'm trying to create a serious parallel between the "savour" of his tales and the taste of Langhe's cookery, the district where the world-wide known Barolo and Barbaresco ("The kings of wines and the Wines of the Kings...") red wines are grown.

Finally, I'm planning to write a monography about the white truffle's cuisine and its legendary hunt, made with the trained dogs...

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