The new Tasting Menu
Finally, after a lot of intense work, with the dinner of June 8th the Author’s Journey to Sicily has been baptized.
Strong and intense emotions, a bit of anxiety, because a project that took 22 months of work, including research, recipe design, organoleptic balances, tests and retests, here we are.
The staff of Il Moro Ristorante
Guests and expectations
The room is full, loyal customers and new customers intrigued by gastro-literary research and there is also a large number of journalists and food critics, with high expectations.
Dinner starts at 8:30 pm, the staff is attentive and diligent, but the emotion exudes from every pore, they have lived the research from the first moment and are aware of the work invested in the planning of the Viaggio D’Autore in Sicily
Homemade local grain bread
The Welcome of Salvatore and Vincenzo Butticè
The appetizers of Viaggio D’Autore in Sicily
In Corpore VIII L. Pirandello
Inspired by “In Corpore Vili” Luigi Pirandello
Sicily in the Sicilian shrimp
Get out of here! – says Cosimino to the servant. Then talk to the fishmonger: – Don’t listen to her! You don’t have to buy these things! – Sgriscia puts her hands on her hips, angry, but Cosimino does not give her time to respond; He gives her a push and starts again: – Get out of here! -Repeats. . The fishmonger defends the woman, who begins to shout: meanwhile people come from all over the market to watch what happens. Cosimino screams, furious: “No, no! Shrimp no! Don Ravanà cannot and must not eat shrimp! You – he says to Sgriscia – tempt him like the devil and ruin his stomach!
The second inlet range
The Malavoglia G.Verga
Inspired by “I Malavoglia” Giovanni Verga
From tuna to tuna
“ Instead, Tino appears, sitting like a president, on the steps of the church, spitting out sentences: “Listen to me; Before the revolution it was something else entirely. Now the fish are mischievous, I tell you!
“No; the anchovies feel the grecale twenty-four hours before arriving, resumed master ‘Ntoni; “It has always been so; Anchovy is a fish that has more judgment than tuna. Now beyond the Capo dei Mulini, they sweep them from the sea all at once, with thick nets”
The First Courses of the Author’s Journey
Competition for Legal Secretary at the Council of State L. Pirandello
Pure Carnaroli Riserva San Massimo and sardines
Risotto and sardines
“Lagumina .. He lost confidence, but not his appetite! He ate as if he had been fasting for days! He downed a plate of risotto without realizing it, continuing to talk about the competition. As he spoke, he did not realize that he had cleaned the plate and continued to look for more risotto with his fork. When he realizes that he has an empty plate, he looks at the other diners, then looks at the waiter and says: – It seemed good to me, if I’m not mistaken. Do we want to do an encore? Bring me another one. Eh, the mountain air..”
Continuing the gastro-literary journey
The Mermaid G. Tomasi di Lampedusa
Inspired by “The Mermaid” by G. Tomasi di Lampedusa
The sensuality of sea urchins
“[…] They are the most beautiful thing you have there, those blood cartilages, those simulacra of female organs, scented with salt and algae. What cheering and cheering! They will be as dangerous as all the gifts of the sea that gives death along with immortality. In Syracuse I constantly asked Paolo Orsi. What a taste, what a divine aspect! The best memory of my last fifty years..”
The central courses of the Voyage…
The Thief of snacks A. Camilleri
The mullet is dedicated to A. Camilleri
Fried mullet, beef and zarchiceddi
“.. the commissioner, despite the fact that his girlfriend Livia has just arrived from the airport, makes a stop at Calogero’s restaurant to enjoy a succulent plate of fried mullet, then justifying his delay and the unmistakable smell of fried food that exudes from his clothes, with the excuse of having had to question the manager of a fry shop “
Continuing….
The cockerels of the Bottajo L. Pirandello
Inspired by “The cockerels of the Bottajo” Luigi Pirandello
Free-range chicken, whipped potato, pepper and almond
” The man, in fact, sitting in the kitchenette, while observing with admiration “his wife more lively than usual, lit in the face by the heat of the fire under the pot, tightened the vine by a new dress, to flowers …”, thinks: “he is right, the poor girl! It is so sweet to be alone together, in intimacy, without foreign faces at the table, that they keep you suspended, you have not well satisfied their tastes …”. “Despite his good intentions, he can’t keep his promise and invites a guest. The offended wife invents a stratagem to remove first the unexpected and unwelcome guest, then the husband. Left alone, the two tasty cockerels are comfortably pulped, cooked with such care.”..
The sweet destination
The G.Tomasi di Lampedusa Cat Birth
Inspired by “The Leopard” by G. Tomasi di Lampedusa
Biancomangiare
“in the scene of the famous Grand Ball in which Don Fabrizio sits at the table to enjoy it …
“..” While tasting the refined mixture of white eat, pistachio and cinnamon enclosed in the desserts he had chosen, Don Fabrizio conversed with Pallavicino and realized that these, beyond the sugary phrases reserved perhaps for ladies, was anything but imbecile.
Matching wines
Antonella, wisely made a meticulous pairing by proposing Sicilian wines, making a journey in the Sicilian territory from Palermo to Etna.
The staff of Il Moro during and at the end of the evening
