One week and counting...till I am off on my two feet.
Beautiful Jesi ...what a great city...soo very relaxed...I love that place.
I just returned from Jesi yesterday. I went down to pick up some things I left there, at the school, before I went on my first stage to Nusco. When I opened the two bags I was glad to see a pair of shorts, and other stuff I can really use now that the weather is almost summerish.
I also met the new class at Ital.Cook. A nice bunch of people, and they all seem to have their heads on the right way! I was a bit mad that I couldn't spend more time with them. It turned out that the two days I was there, was also the two days that Pisaniello from Nusco, my old chef, was teaching there about the Campania region. SO we went to Cedroni's Madonina del Pescatore for a snack, only after I showed him, and tasted some things at Aniko.
The dinner was nice, and afterwards we said a few words to the busy looking/tired looking chef. He mentioned that his next adventure was putting food into tubes, like old toothpaste tubes, and his example for this weeks VinItaly was fish and chips, where you would squeeze out from the tube a cream to put on top of potato chips...that ended up tasting like the classic plate.........questionable but fun.
I was a bit disappointed to see that my backpack was taken/misplaced/stolen from one of the apartments in Jesi.
Now I am in a bit of a struggle to find a new one, fast. I left it with an unreliable student, Leon, and he never made the effort like he said he would, to store it at the school...so I blame myself a bit as well. DAMN! That's gonna be an expensive purchase...ouch.
This weekend is busy in the restaurant...and I plan on getting in in about 5 minutes. Monday will be VinItaly and Tuesday is supposed to be our friendly Sassicaia dinner...I cook, they provide the wines...should be fun!
Hopefuly the upcoming saturday will be Le Calandre, but it is uncertain now as I need to spend even more cash on a new pack...hmmm.
Ore
