In the Studio: Massimo Bottura

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana has twice been named the world’s best restaurant. Situated in Bottura’s hometown of Modena, a place renowned for racing cars and balsamic vinegar, the triple Michelin-starred establishment blends traditional Italian cooking with a truly avant-garde sense of design and creativity. Bottura is the leader of the culinary movement that sees food as edible art. Food journalist and cookbook author Emiko Davies spends a weekend in Modena with Bottura and his restauranteur wife Lara Gilmore.

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0:00.0	Bonjour now.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service which
0:10.0	uncovers the inner workings of the world's most creative minds.
0:14.0	As Picasso was always saying, I was drawing as Raphaelo since I was 13,
0:19.3	but it took their whole life to paint like a kid.
0:22.4	We are cooking like kids. I'm Emmiko Davies and in this episode I'm going to be walking.
0:27.7	So from the market to downtown, talking.
0:31.2	It's sweet. It's not super acid eating that's amazing oh my God where
0:37.2	has it been my whole life and generally trying to keep up with the three
0:40.4	Michelin star chef Massimo Botura.
0:43.0	That's how my brain works.
0:45.8	Ideas are floating everywhere at 1.30 in the morning,
0:50.2	or like 12 o'clock when the service starts.
0:53.3	Tabolo that one, two person, two men,
0:56.1	no, Marcha!
0:57.0	Marzimo is a visionary who is known for his rule-breaking and for his restaurant Australia
1:04.3	Francescana which he runs with his wife Laura Gilmore. My real job? I choose after
1:09.6	Massimo. That's what I really do. That's how I spend most of my time.
1:13.0	In that kitchen, he's been turning the Italian food tradition,
1:17.0	upside down, on its side, and round and round for nearly 30 years.
1:21.0	No, I'm not doing that in that way. I don't want to follow what my
1:25.6	grandmothers told me to do. Masma takes inspiration from absolutely everything.
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