Meanwhile, I premise that I was definitely one of the first, if not the first to do a live cooking show on TV, Program “Numero1” with Pippo Baudo on February 13, 2015 during TG1 with over 20 million viewers. Before me only the great Gualtiero Marchesi in a program with Antonella Clerici.
Image from December 1995 with Pippo Baudo, Gianni Pina and Pino Uggioni!
After more than 450, including live television broadcasts and recordings, after distributing free ideas (including about the great programs of today” Master Chef and La prova del Cuoco! and Uno Mattina) and of yesteryear (the Old Farm) in 2005 I decided to stop doing television!
Since 2005, there has been a huge growth in cooking shows, but new ones will be coming out soon and believe me they will see more and more of the audience involved like a circus.
Soon you will see that in addition to I’ll leave you a song they will also do “I’ll leave you a recipe” I’ll send you a chocolate! Master Pizza! The Coking in de World! The greatest Cooker! The Taste Factory! It doesn’t matter which one is next. Certainly new stars will be born and current ones will disappear. A physiological rotation that elevates to the stars and then puts back into oblivion. Read what my Friend Rossano Boscolo says.
During these last 40 years of mine, I have never chased glory! But only my desire to excite! From as far back as 1979 in Turin, when I won the Golden Beret, and I was only 14 years old. To date, I can say that I have ploughed all kinds of stages; village competitions, Regional, National and World Challenges. I have been featured in 4 World Finals and 3 times as captain. 1995 in Lyon at the Coupe du Monde de la Patisserie with Bernasconi Roberto and Massimo Crinò, in 2001 as Captain with Leonardo Di Carlo and Amelio Mazzella Di Regnella, in 2003 with Gennaro Volpe and Francesco Marchione. In 2006 again as captain in Phoenix in Arizonan final with Roberto Rinaldini and Lucio Forino
Team Italy composed of myself Silvio Bessone, Rinaldini Roberto and Forino Lucio and our coach Vittorio Santoro
On the podium Silvio Bessone with Biasetto Luigi, Leonardo Di Carlo and Amelio Mazzella of Regnella
I have won a lot! but too many times suffered incredible injustice because of my character! Just think, I had the courage back in 1989 to accuse the Great, the Immense! Superstar Iginio Massari to have participated in a contest with work performed by a French master! INCREDIBLE!!!!!
Yes I have competed with 5 generations of Pastry Chefs and Cooks! Damn almost all of them but especially the ones that are in vogue now and I even beat them!
Great satisfaction, and I don’t feel any regrets about then being overtaken! I follow my heart and go where it leads me! I don’t follow hit-and-miss results and only ever commit to what I feel like!
One piece of advice, however, I want to give to those parents who have a son or daughter who has the desire to one day become a great chef! I prefer Cuoco! Be prepared! Too often people think that cooking begins with a beautifully decorated and or colorful plate! But that is the end point not the start!
One does not win contests without technical, cultural, scientific and emotional preparation. Being a cook for fun is fine but remember that you are always making things that someone else has to eat! Years ago at a symposium of the Academy of Master Pastry Chefs (I was one of them for a few years now I’m out of it) in that of Brescia, I remember urging a colleague, who had made a dessert for which, we judged him, that “we deserved more respect! and that he should never have allowed himself to serve us such crap” I remember it was a traditional Italian dessert a Chiave di Violino! Of course he will hate me for the rest of su for life but who cares!
A lot of great cooks, now called chefs, I think have gotten a little bit carried away, but this happens a lot and in all categories where you get visibility. Look at the Humility of the Greatest Master Gualtiero Marchesi, he was and always will be IMMENSE!!! a genius and just!!!! but for 60 years!
This is just to say that the art of food should not be underestimated. It is an art in that it can transform a physiological necessity into an emotion! If you want to cook, do it! But do it WELL!!! Don’t Improvise and especially if your children want to be Cooks (mind you not chefs) help them! Invest in their training! Invest in their desire and equip them with the necessary tools!
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Grow the talent in you!
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