In 2002, for instance, he was in Sydney, then New York, then Panarea in the Aeolian Island where he met, while he was in the kitchen and the latter in the dining room, the person he still calls Il Capitano.

We’re speaking of Fabio Cannavaro, the captain of Italy when the team won the World Cup in Germany in 2006. «He would come to the Aeolian Islands on holiday, on his boat, and visit my restaurant. Nine years working in the business and in the autumn of 2013 I arrived in the Emirates thanks to him. Here people are strong supporters of Juventus and this is where he, Il Capitano, was working as a trainer». 

Like saying that two plus two is four: «He wanted to eat an authentic pizza margherita and asked me, since he had a share in the Lounge Cafè Italiano, to organise the work. The plan was to stay 3 months, but I’ve been working and living here for 3 years already». In fact it was Cannavaro that left Dubai and moved to China.

Offering high quality here is not easy, between desert and skyscrapers. For the Margherita he only uses PDO ingredients but it’s hard because everything’s expensive, even low quality products. And everything basically arrives through French distribution channels and they obviously first distribute made-in-France products and then, eventually, made-in-Italy.

The same applies when it’s time to ship: if there’s some empty space left, they’ll ship Italian products too. We’d do the same, if only we had a different attitude and organisation.

Paolo Marchi
source: http://newsletter.identitagolose.it/email.php?id=644

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