Gourmet food

From “Chocohotel Frizzy” to the “sun of the Orient”

The Italian Eisproduzenten have for the summer of new creations idea, although there are already around 600 varieties exist. Chocolate is the most popular.

In Italy there are already about 600 different varieties of ice on the market, but the fantasy of gelato producers apparently knows no bounds. For each season has something new her, and it is even in this early summer, the 2009th Fits at the beginning of the school holidays and so the holiday season in mid-June – the last holiday until September, three months – will be new, even exotic delicacies offered. For example, “Chocohotel Frizzy”, a fancy name for ice cream white chocolate and nougat, which only in the palate unfold his right coolness, or “Pop Corn Rock”, a creamy ice cream flavor after popcorn. Exotic’s’ The sun of the Orient “, therefore, an ice cream with saffron and sesame seeds, or the” Maya “ice, a Milcheis with honey and pistachios. But the highlight is undoubtedly the ice from the milk of asses.

Chocolate stays top

Fantasy realm, this is everything, but some things about it is not more than one season. And it also knows the “Italian Eisproduzenten Institute (Istituto Italiano del Gelato) to report that the traditional gelato-resistant varieties in favor of the audience remain Schleck. And in the following order: In the first place remains with supporters of the 27 percent chocolate, followed by nut (20 percent), lemon (13 percent), strawberry (12 percent), vanilla cream (10 percent), stracciatella (9 percent) pistachio, and finally with a share of eight percent.

Each Italian consumes 15 kg of ice per year

The Italians are great glacial, which arises from the official statistics: Each year Italians consume 15 kilograms of ice and they all indicate that a total of five billion euros proud of – in the style of ice, in bags, in the cup. 40 percent of consumption is accounted for by industrially produced ice creams, but 60 percent are in the bar or in Eissalon produced. And because it has long been around as well – and wholesome – Italian ice is growing and the export. Again, according to official information received by the producers on the Apennine peninsula in 2008 for around 200 million euros ice exported. And 90 percent of them in the countries of the European Union, preferably in France, Germany, and – surprisingly – to Spain.

The “peasant Eissalon” on the march

Given the increasing trend in Italy Farm Holidays offer the “Argiturismo” stimulate, do many farmers tend their ice cream on the farm itself Gourmet food. They advertise with the manufacture of ice cream from the milk of the cow from our own stables, with the fruit from the orchard, and the whole is known as “agrigelaterie” – freely translated “peasant Eissalon”. In the Veneto, Calabria and in Sicily there is already good experience with this type of ice-made marketing and the tourists seem to goutieren. The ice from the farmers, geschleckt in the yard in the fresh air – it has something for themselves.

The German celebrity chef was also at the G8 summit prompted strong

In the hotel “Holzapfel” Bad Füssing he has earned the first spores; now he has three stars in Michelin: Heinz Beck celebrates high cuisine in Rome.

The big prize is only three years old – and because Michelin Italia with the awarding of stars much more economical, so miserly than the French, for example. As a result, Heinz Beck, the German celebrity chef in the restaurant “La Pergola” in Rome Cavalieri Hilton fine, until January 2006 on the third star in the Guida Rossa look like the Michelin on the Apennine peninsula is called. He deserves this star long, but when he is the most famous and talented chefs in the sphere of the Colosseum – although he is a reingeschmeckter Bayer. The three stars in 2006, Heinz Beck, three years later, in July 2009, the Crown up: To start in the G8 Summit, the Heads of State and Government at the invitation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in L’Aquila in Abruzzi completed, allowed the German chef Heinz Beck for ten First Ladies in Rome a meal not only prepare but to celebrate.

To end a good Malvasia from Salina

The master feels like calling, and since his cooking has an extraordinarily broad range has to be a virtuoso, he can vary: The wife of the Indian Prime Minister only eats vegetarian, no fish or dairy products. No problem: Then is it a salad of asparagus with strawberries (!), Seasoned with 50 years old from Modenau vinegar, served this fried cauliflower and Mediterranean vegetables wrapped in batter ausgebackenen. Michelle Obama makes the celebrity chef a few problems: He knows that the Italian cuisine in all variants gourmet coffee beans. So Beck served her and the other Ladies veal with colorful vegetables, lobster medallions, between a fillet of red mullet – a total journey through the traditional Roman cuisine, topped off with Italian wines from the wineries of the brothers Berucchi from Franciacorta, a white wine of San Vincenzo (Anselmi), a Brunello di Montalcino and the conclusion – of course – a Malvasia of the Aeolian Islands, Salina. His credo is. Easy and delicious. So are the desserts: for instance, fish carpaccio with sorbet, tiramisu in mini-portions as well as almond or raspberry ice cream.

Beck began in the hotel “Holzapfel” Bad Füssing

The 45-year-old Heinz Beck, he was born on 3 November 1963, has learned his trade from scratch learned. But he has such Höhenflüge probably can not dream when he was in the hotel “Holzapfel” in Lower Bavaria, Bad Füssing the first insight into more culinary received gourmet chocolates. Actually, really, he was discovered by star chef Heinz Winkler, who Weidlich and promoted him to the Munich “Tantris” outdated, where he refined his gifts – especially the recipe to cook without recipes. 14 years ago is Beck came to Italy, his wife is a Sicilian from Palermo. In their house, in the mother, he really learned to make pasta, Beck says in interviews and smiles. The marinated scallops with lentil puree in bacon with a touch of liquorice, with his guests in “La Pergola” swarm, which he invented himself, however, which do not come by the Mom from Palermo.

Heinz Beck is the most important German in Rome, called – after the Pope.