Italian food festival highlights healthy cooking

From 16 to 18 March, Venice will host “Gusto in Scena”, a food festival that showcases novel cuisine from Italy’s chefs. This year, the emphasis is on light but flavourful meals that incorporate natural substitutes for fat, sugar and salt. For example, sugar is replaced by honey, agaves or rice juice, coconut, dried pineapple, banana or fructose.

Participating chefs include:

Carlo Cracco  - Ristorante Cracco – Milano

Vincenzo Candiani - Locanda Don Serafino – Ragusa Ibla (RG)

Herbert Hintner -  Zur Rose San Michele Appiano (BZ)

Luca Marchini -  L'Erba del Re - Modena

Aurora Mazzucchelli -  Ristorante Marconi Sasso Marconi (BO)

Nicola e Luigi Portinari -  La Peca - Lonigo (VI)

Luigi Taglienti -  Trussardi alla Scala- Milano

Paolo Teverini -  Paolo Teverini  Bagno di Romagna (FC)

Ilario Vinciguerra - Ilario Vinciguerra Restaurant  Gallarate (VA)

Andrea Aprea -  VUN - Park Hyatt - Milano

Heinz Beck – La Pergola -  Roma

Cristian e Manuel Costardi - Hotel Cinzia da Cristian e Manuel – Vercelli

Pastry chefs  Luigi Biasetto, Salvatore De Riso, Gianluca Fusto, Iginio Massari and Ernst Knam, will also be at this event.

Gusto in Scena, organised by journalist, Marcello Coronini, will be held at the Scuola Grande of San Giovanni Evangelista, in Venice.