Hunting in the kitchen: in Rimini, Artusi's risotto between Hunting, Gastronomy and Society; a conference organized by the regional Federcaccia of Emilia Romagna and by the provincial section of Rimini.
Traditions, history of the territory and cuisine, linked to Rimini in a conference organized by the regional Federcaccia of Emilia-Romagna and the provincial Federcaccia of the Adriatic coast city, on the afternoon of Saturday 13 April at the elegant Hotel Sporting. An afternoon of historical and culinary rediscoveries focused on the traditions born along the course of the Marecchia river. After the opening of the works by the President of the Rimini Federcaccia, Stefano Bianchini, Dr. Giulio Morigi, agronomist, spoke about the environmental changes along the Marecchia auction and the local hunting traditions linked to the river , when water game constituted an appreciably supplementary food source in the period between the two wars.
He was followed by Prof. Zefiro Ciuffoletti, professor of contemporary history at the University of Florence, with a detailed report through which, starting from the assumption that language and food are cultural lines of absolute characterization within society, he led those present along a path of food flavors combined with flavors of experience and wealth of knowledge, which real game, not bred, carries with it from its food origin for poor classes to the status of niche and elite food.
After the closing of the works by Avv. Stefano Merighi, President of the regional Federcaccia of Emilia-Romagna, the kitchen has beaten the field with the reinterpretation of an Artusi aquatic game risotto (risotto with coot, prepared according to the Artusian recipe no. 275), by the Chef Claudio Moras, Master of Cuisine of the Italian Federation of Chefs and of the Romagnoli Chefs Association.
A flash of culinary imagination: a grated chocolate with cocoa on the coot risotto, instead of parmesan. Applause aside for the new and very tasty interpretation, the serving spoon literally scraped the bottom of the pot, demonstrating that, at the table, territory, hunting and cooking can also be an example for politics, because ... they immediately agree . (Roberto Aguzzoni)
17 April 2013
Hunting Federation