Italian Cuisine In Garda

In recent years Italian chefs has rediscovered the importance and relevance of the traditional and local food on the entire Country. Everywhere cuisine-professionals, chefs, associations and amateurs are working hard to make people taste and asppreciate the ancient flavors that have always characterised the Italian food tradition. In a certain way we are witnessing to a real new trend, a culinary rebirth. The Italian culinary tradition we are talking about is made of recipe ingredients which differ across the regions according to the diferent cultural background and weather conditions.

From the north to the south, dishes can deeply differ, but they all have at leat one thing in common: they are all extremely healthy, maybe sometimes rich in calories but always quite healthy. In fact, we can see there has been a return to a very healthy and light yet very tasty cuisine. Carlo Bresciani and Bruno Piovanelli, internationally renowned chefs that live and work on the lake of Garda area and members of the Local Association Chefs Brescia, can be considered two exceptional testimonials of this new trend: "Our favourite dishes - they utter - are often inspired by local tradition: our aim is to make old-style dishes, usuallly made using animal fats, much lighter and international." In Bresciani and Piovanelli's cuisine, the taste of tradition is combined with the lightness of the healthy Italian lifestyle, and the typical products of the Lake Garda remain the heart of their recipies. The products of the Garda Valley they use are many and sophisticated: The best oil of the Garda, good extra virgin olive oil with a savory and delicate taste Seven species of truffles, like the famous and extremely expensive black truffle, delicious cheeses, fresh or aged, like Grana Padano and the so called "Provolone" Carlo Bresciani and Bruno Piovanelli are currently working in one of the most renown restaurant on the Garda.

"At the Restaurant we aim for a light and delicate, yet always tasty kitchen - declare Bresciani and Piovanelli - At the same time of course, we never forget the international cuisine." Following this new cool trend, each restaurant of the Garda today is trying to offer a tasty and healthy cuisine, characterized by bio-ingredients, often cultivated in the area of the Garda according to the best local traditions. Among the most delicious dishes offerd by Piovanelli, Bresciani and other chefs of the Garda you can find: Beef tartare with Grana Padano cheese, basil pesto and mesclun saladFlorentine steak with smoked "scamorza" cheese and roasted potatoes with thymeFresh pasta ravioli stuffed with tomato and anchovies with "burrata" cheese sauce Delicious desserts as soft raspberry tart with pistachio sauce and sorbet