Personal Chef - giannipassante.it

Having dinner in an fashionable restaurant feeling at home and being, surprisingly, in

your own house, recreating the refined and elegant atmoshere of a lounge in the

welcoming, confortable intimacy of your dining room or in some other different or

typical locations: that's the main mission of a personal chef, that's our main aim.

When creating your favourite dishes, he focuses his attention and takes care of the

total respect of the ingredients seasonality and, if possible, supplying them directly

within his living area (km 0 storage)

He is the main director of the event ( a romantic dinner, a family party, a banquet), he is

the translator of the customer's wishes and exigences, and for him the setting,

preparation and service are provided and looked after in all details.

My idea of cooking finds its roots in my passion for food. My region, Apulia, offers a

wide fan of typical ingredients and so many different preparations. It is very easy to

state that our best cooks have been our “grannies”, those women who had to invent

extraordinary dishes using a few ingredients available in their kitchen and vegetable

garden.

But it is not sufficient and satisfying to reproduce and copy the main recipes of our

tradition!!

I have always been looking for new ingredients, rediscovering and appraising old and

often forgotten cooking techniques, trying to use them again following my

personal idea of food innovation and fusion.

Fruit and vegetables, natural aromatic herbs, the “treasures” of our Adriatic sea

(prepared both raw or cooked), our local meat...these are the ingredients I like to handle

and manipulate with a double value and satisfaction: mine (when transforming them and

succeeding in creating savory dishes) and the diner's (who lives a multisensorial eating

experience involving firstly his sight, then passing through his smelling and finishing

by his tasting).

The quality of raw materials is essential, we only use local 0 km raw materials, supplied

by local producers who are particularly careful to the quality and freshness of their

products.

Together with the recipes coming from Apulian tradition, our food offer also includes

preparations belonging to other Italian regional traditions (those which allowed Italian

cooking to become great all over the world) and some international ones.

For further info or booking:

Gianni Passante - Professional Personal Chef

Tel: +39 347 7706810

E-mail: personalchef@giannipassante.it