The Milano Files
The Milano Files champions the food, wine, beverage, and lifestyle culture of Milan - home to Italy's most electric food scene. Host Jaclyn DeGiorgio is a food tour guide as well as a food, wine, and travel writer who's watched the city's food scene evolve for over a decade. The fiercest champion for her adopted city and its surroundings you'll ever meet, Jaclyn celebrates Milan's--and most of Northern Italy's--overlooked, though no less noteworthy allure.
The Milano Files
Carbonara pralines and more with pastry chef Marcello Rapisardi
Today Jaclyn speaks with pastry chef Marcello Rapisardi of Pasticerria e Dessert, a whimsical pastry shop in Milan where the offerings include a mind-blowing carbonara praline and other unexpected sweets nestled alongside the classics. We speak about his time working for chefs like Heston Blumenthal and Moreno Cedroni, his philosophy, his approach to pastry, and more.
Links to anything referenced in the show:
- Pasticceria e Dessert
- Marcello's Instagram
- Pasticceria e Dessert's Instagram
- The Fat Duck
- Madonnina del Pescatore
- Angel León is the Spanish chef who studies plankton and makes it in a lab
- Marcello's "Milano Five" pics on Jaclyn's blog, A Signorina in Milan
- Jaclyn's Instagram