Venice Cult Recipes

GRAZIE

To my editor and Audrey Génin, to Grégoire Kalt for his photojournalism in Venice: what good gastronomic memories!

For taking the time to be my guides in Venice: GRAZIE to Maria, Roberto, Matteo. Thank you to all those who gave me tips to good places: Betty, Valerio, Alessia, Sabina, Manuela, Michela, my brother Carlo and Martina, my cousins Alessandro and Stefano, Giuseppe Iannò, Giovanni Gregoletto.

GRAZIE for their precious support to my darling Philippe, my Venetian friend Piera Grandesso, and also to Mariolina Secco and her family, Emmanuelle Mourareau, Ariadne Elisseeff, Francesca Solarino. A big thank you to Alessandra Pierini from the RAP food store in Paris for her collaboration on the section on wine, her passion!

GRAZIE to all the bàcari and restaurants that helped me in making this book: Laura from Vini da Gigio, Francesco from La Cantina, Mauro Lorenzon from Mascareta, Cesare Benelli from Al Covo, Franca from Anice Stellato, Luca from Alle Testiere, the fishmonger Marco Bergamasco, Francesco from Antiche Carampane, the Pinto family at All’Arco, Matteo from Bancogiro, Stefano at Altanella, Rudy at La Zucca, Silvia at Caffè Florian, Laura at Harry’s Bar, Michela Da Bona and Gian Luca Bisol at the Tenuta Venissa estate.

GRAZIE to all those who lent me supplies: Philippe Model, Alessi, Holland & Sherry for Fortuny, Bureau 11O for LSA international, Dominique Kieffer-Rubelli, and Society, and my mamma !

BIBLIOGRAPHY

P. Agostini and A. Zorzi, La Table des Doges (Tournai: Casterman, 1992).

A. Bay and S. Salvatori, La Cucina Nazionale Italiana (Milano: Adriano Salani Editore, 2008).

J. Clausel, Venise exquise (Paris: Payot, 1990).

C. Coco, Venezia in Cucina (Roma-Bari: Editori Laterza, 2007).

M. Gotti, Grande Enciclopedia Illustrata della Gastronomia (Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2007).

E. Grandesso, Magna e Bevi che la Vita Xé un Lampo! (Spinea, Venezia: Edizione Helvetia, 2007).

E. Grandesso, Se No Xé Pan Xé Polenta (Spinea, Venezia: Edizione Helvetia, 2005).

INSOR, Atlante dei Prodotti Tipici: La Pasta (Roma: Agra Editrice, 2004).

G. Maffioli, La Cucina Veneziana (Padova: Franco Muzio Editore, 1995).

G. Rorato, Origini e Storia della Cucina Veneziana (Vittorio Veneto: Dario De Bastiani Editore, 2010).

B. Scappi, Opera, (Venezia: Tramezzino, 1570; Bologna: Arnaldo Forni Editore, 1981).

GUIDES:

To learn more about all the restaurants and shops in Venice and the islands of the lagoon, see the guides by Michela Scibillia: Osterie e dintorni and Botteghe e dintorni or Venice Osterie and Venice Botteghe in English. There is also an iPhone edition of Venice Osterie — look for Tap Venice Eat in iTunes.

ALTERNATIVE ITINERARIES:

Hugo Pratt, Guido Fuga and Lele Vianello, Venise, itinéraires avec Corto Maltese (Casterman, 2010) or The Secret Venice of Corto Maltese (Rizzoli Lizard, 2005).

Thomas Jonglez and Paola Zoffoli, Venise insolite et secrète (Versailles: Éditions Jonglez, 2010) or Secret Venice (Versailles: Jonglez Publishing, 2012)

A LITTLE BOOK TO AWAKEN ALL OUR SENSES:

Tiziano Scarpa, Venezia è un pesce (Milano: Feltrinelli, 2000) or Venice is a Fish (London: Serpent’s Tail, 2010).

SUPPLIERS

FORTUNY SPA

Fortuny art fabrics

Giudecca 805, 30123 Venise

Tel: +39 041 5287697

fortuny.com – venice@fortuny.com

Paris showroom:

HOLLAND & SHERRY

17 rue de l’Échaude, 75006 Paris

Tel: 01 42 33 55 91