Gambero Rosso – July-August 2019

MARTINA CARUSO

by Paolo Cuccia - portrait by Lido Vannucchi – photos by Giò Martorana and Lorenzo Rui

BORN IN

Milazzo (ME)

AGE

29

RESIDENT IN

Milazzo (ME)

LAST DOWNLOADED ALBUM

Playing the Piano di Ryuichi Sakamoto

LAST BOOK READ

Dinner with Darwin. Food, drink and

evolution, by Jonathan W. Silvertown

HAD I NOT BEEN A CHEF I WOULD...

...I don’t know, maybe medical school, or photography...

SOUS CHEF

Stefano Zanini

AGE OF SOUS CHEF

23

KITCHEN BRIGADE

Mattia Spalletta, Sara Lopes,

Marco Ferretti, Francesca Follone,

Angelica Pantò, Francesca Barone,

Valerio Maratona, Lavinia Grenga,

Mhamed El Mselek, Youssef Takhmoune,

Morlaye Tourè

IN THE DINING ROOM

Luca Caruso con Alberto Triolo,

Riccardo Basile, Azzedine Takhmoune,

Graziana Randazzo, Chantal La Mancusa

SOMMELIER

Luca Caruso con Jada Parisi, Mattia Moro

COCKTAIL BAR

Raffaele Caruso (bartender)

con Josefine Truppel e Paolo Monello

MOST LOVED INGREDIENT

Eggplant

LEAST LOVED INGREDIENT

Things that are not good

THE DISH OF A LIFETIME

My Father’s (Michele)

baddottole in broth (bread,

egg, cheese dumplings,

cooked in vegetable broth)

MOST REVERED MAESTRO

I met several life and work

teachers during my journey:

everyone left me with

something

MOST RESPECTED PEER

COLLEAGUE

Caterina Ceraudo

(she first mentioned me in the

June issue

of Gambero Rosso!)

MY CUISINE’S HASHTAGS

grounded, respect, ingredient,

tradition, fun

FAVOURITE RESTAURANT

ABROAD

Asador Etxebarri in Atxondo

(Bizkaia - Spagna)

WINE ABOVE ALL OTHERS

Champagne

DISHES PRESENTED:

Bagna cauda with raw sea urchin

Confit mackerel, green olive soup, bufala and candied capers

Mismatched pasta with mussels, zucchini and Ragusano cheese

Milk, chocolate, coffee and carob soup

OWNER 

PARTNER 

EMPLOYEE 

SEATING

40

PREVIOUSLY WORKED AT

La Rosetta al Pantheon,

Open Colonna e Pipero al Rex

di Roma; La Torre del Saracino

a Vico Equense (NA);

Malabar a Lima (Perù)

RESTAURANT NAME

Signum

RESTAURANT CONTACTS:

Malfa – Salina – Isole Eolie

via Scalo 15 – Aeolian Islands

hotelsignum.it

RECIPES