Carlo Cracco’s guests in the Dinner Club program. Streetfoodnews.it
In the Amazon Prime Video show “Dinner Club” there was a strange exchange between the host and chef Carlo Cracco and one of the famous participants.
Carlo Cracco returned to television with the program “Dinner Club” produced and broadcast by Amazon Prime Video, after a break from television of several years during which the chef had to devote himself to the opening of his new restaurants, especially the one in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II of Milan , whose journey is recounted in a feature-length documentary called Cracco Confidential.
The Chef, originally from the province of Vicenza, He made his debut on the small screen in 2012 as a judge on the cooking talent show MasterChef alongside Bruno Barbieri and Joe Bastianich. From the fifth season onwards, the magical trio is also added Antonino Cannavacciulo. In his years at Master chefCracco is entrusted with another program, again with a cooking theme, Hell’s Kitchenin the role of the famous Gordon Ramsay in the US version.
However, in 2017, at the end of the sixth season, right in the last episode, Cracco announces his Goodbye, MasterChefIn a subsequent interview he will explain that his decision depends on the desire to dedicate himself to new non-television projects. And he actually dropped out the following year Hell’s Kitchen.
In these years Cracco opens two restaurants in MilanIn fact, the ai-Bistro will also be inaugurated in April 2021 alongside the one in the Galleria Navigliplus a third, in July 2021, a Portofinothe first to not serve meat dishes.
Carlo Cracco’s debut in the Dinner Club program
In 2021, the chef was commissioned by Amazon to produce a new format, still linked to the world of cooking but very different from the programs carried out in the past. Dinner clubis actually based on a very simple format in which there is no competition, but it is more of a history of our country’s cuisine with an experiential approach. To the program instead of the competition, Six famous people take part.
The program is based on 5 simple rules that Carlo Cracco repeats at the beginning of each episode: 1. You must be willing to travel to any location by any means necessary. 2. We will always travel as a couple and one of us will always be me. 3. We eat everything and with everyone. 4. There will be a dinner that he will cook for the others who traveled with me. 5. There are no rules in the dinner club.
Giallini’s outburst towards Cracco at the dinner club. Streetfoodnews.it
The curtain between Giallini and Cracco in the dinner club
In practice, the program sees In each episode, Carlo Cracco accompanies one of the characters in a different area to discover traditional flavors and recipes. At the end of each episode, everyone meets for dinner to taste the dishes prepared by the episode’s protagonist with the assistance of the chef. Let’s assume that the competition is not always happy with the experience, as was the case withThe actor Marco Giallini set out to discover eastern Sicily. “52 degrees, I didn’t see anything,” Giallini says at the start of the episode. “No, no, he was sniffing the whole time,” says Cracco, imitating Giallini. But Littizzetto intervenes in the conversation and downplays it: “He (referring to Giannini) is a bit like a coffee machine, to make coffee he has to mumble.”
The Giallini’s disappointment As it also turns out during the recording of the episode, the actor’s first mission is actually to meet three “vaccaredari”, i.e. the collectors of “vaccareddi”, which is what snails are called in the dialect. When Giallini arrives at the camp under the scorching Sicilian sun, he blurts out to Cracco, “How the hell do you do that?” But why? Are snails available on the market? At that time, What the hell were we supposed to do between the watermelons?“.