PUNTOITALY N°2 - July - December 2012

0 1. Fabio Tacchella Senior Chef - General Manager 0 2. Fabio Momolo Senior Chef - Team Coach 0 3. Marco Valletta Senior Chef - Public Relation 0 4. Vito Antonio Semeraro Senior Chef - Chef of Cuisine 0 5. Nicola Vizzarri Senior Chef - Team Leader Junior Chef 0 6. Gaetano Ragunì Senior Chef - Chef of Cuisine 0 7. Mario Quattrociocchi Senior Chef - Chef of Cuisine 0 8. Francesco Gotti Senior Chef - Chef of Cuisine 0 9. Domenico Spadafora Senior Chef - Chef Pastry 10. Gioacchino Antonio Sensale Senior Chef - Chef of Cuisine 11. Komlenic Ljubica Senior Chef - Team Coach Cold Cuisine Junior Team 12. Carmelo Trentacosti Senior Chef - Chef of Cuisine 13. Fabio Mancuso Senior Chef - Chef of Cuisine 14. Angelo Giovanni Di Lena Senior Chef - Hot & Cold Cuisine 15. Matteo Sangiovanni Senior Chef - Team Coach Cold Cuisine Junior Team 16. Gianluca Tomasi Senior Chef - Team Manager Nic 1 2 5 8 11 13 15 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 14 16 Entrée: Halibut with mantle of tomato, black olives and saffron sauce with roulade of red prawns and caramelised shallot Main course: Variation on Kobe beef with truffle sauce (personal interpretation of the meat according to the rules) Dessert: Strawberry mousse with choco- late ganache and vanilla custard, fruit com- pote, coconut and strawberry sorbet THE ITALIAN MAGAZINE FOR INTERNATIONAL BUYERS IN GELATO, PASTRY AND TRENDY FOOD-AND-DRINK sena Province and his assistant Giovanni Lorusso from Bari. The NIC junior team, represented by Francesca Narcisi from Cosenza, won the bronze medal, the highest-ever placing achieved by Italy, beaten only by the United States and Sweden. The team, led by the general manager Fabio Tacchella, had the chef Ljubica Komlenic as team coach, who organised the team’s approach and decided the tactics to employ in the kitchen. Francesca Narcisi, together with two older colleagues, had already shown how good she was at Lubljiana (Slovenia) in the final of the Southern Europe Selection for the “Global Chefs Challenge”, but in Korea she had to perform even bet- ter since, as Ljubica Komlenic admits, “She had to deal with some organisational glitches, but that didn’t faze her. I per- sonally was on edge until the very end, and I had tears in my eyes seeing this fantastic small woman competing against lots of extremely good men”. The next international event in which the NIC team will com- pete is the IKA-World Culinary Olympics at Erfurt (Germany), scheduled for 5-10 October 2012. • Senior Chefs Menu 41