At the table with Sicilian writers
At the table with the greats of Sicilian literature: chefs Salvatore and Vincenzo Butticè present the new menu “Gastro-literary journey in Sicily”, a culinary journey that narrates the poetry of Sicily
You’re in Monza, or maybe not, you’re in Sicily. You are sitting at the table and while you read the menu, Pirandello, Verga and Tomasi di Lampedusa and Camilleri appear next to you.
As if you were in Woody Allen’s 2011 film, Midnight in Paris, where one evening the protagonist, walking alone through the streets of Paris, loses his bearings, accepts a ride and by magic finds himself in the past, in the mythical Paris of the twenties and the “Lost Generation”, you too are transported to a multiverse of Sicilian culture and flavors.
An immersive experience
Yes, you can lose your bearings when you are overwhelmed by taste, if then each dish is accompanied by phrases by four masterful interpreters of Italian literature, children of that land, Sicily, which the staff of IL Moro brings to the table in every dish, then the experience becomes immersive.
You’re in Monza, or maybe not, you’re in Sicily. You are sitting at the table and while you read the menu, Pirandello, Verga and Tomasi di Lampedusa and Camilleri appear next to you
Literary quotations
The menu has been created to celebrate the fruits, from every point of view, of the Sicilian lands, as well as the arrival of summer and features a wide selection of dishes that incorporate fresh and seasonal ingredients, accompanying each dish with a literary quote: from Verga, “I malavoglia” to “I Galletti del Bottaio by Luigi Pirandello”, passing through “La Sirena” by Giuseppe Tomasi, “The Snack Thief” by Camilleri.
The Menu de IButtice
Dedication to Pirandello “In corpore Vili”
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!
Inspired by “In Corpore Vili” Luigi Pirandello
Dedication to Verga: “I malavoglia”
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”
Inspired by “I Malavoglia” Giovanni Verga
Always on Pirandello.. “Competition for Legal Secretary at the Council of State”
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..”
Dedication to G. Tomasi di Lampedusa “The Mermaid”
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..”
Inspired by “The Mermaid” by G. Tomasi di Lampedusa
Dedication to Cammilleri A. “The Thief of Snacks”
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 “
Inspired by “The Thief of Snacks” by A. Camilleri
The Coopers of the Bottajo Luigi Pirandello
The free-range chicken, the whipped potato and u cavulu trunzu
” 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.”..
Inspired by “The cockerels of the Bottajo” Luigi Pirandello
Continuing with Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard
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.
Inspired by “The Leopard” by G. Tomasi di Lampedusa
