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Come nasce un menu? Come ai vecchi tempi e come in una casa: nasce al mercato, dove Giuliano lo chef va a fare la spesa ogni mattina, la spesa principale dell’area mediterranea, vale a dire quella della verdura, della frutta e degli “odori”. Dunque il menu nasce dal colore e dal profumo, dalle forme e da ciò che la ricchezza continentale per anni ha relegato al rango dell’inessenziale. Il menu dell’Asinocotto ha a che vedere con la cucina povera del mare e della campagna.
Verdura e frutta, cioè freschezza, alla quale l’indole del cuoco tende a mescolare la dolcezza e a volte una punta di agro. E la leggerezza (dalla tavola dell’Asinocotto non ci si alza imbesuiti o gonfi). Le carni e il pesce vanno a sistemarsi fra i prodotti del mercato come a casa loro, salumi e formaggi hanno da essere perfetti o niente. I frutti di mare sono già a loro agio in questa filosofia del cibo, dato il loro habitat originario tra sale e alghe.

Quanto ai dolci…beh, sono i Dolci della Festa, dolci dell’infanzia. Memorabili o niente!
Origine quotidiana del menu, origine stagionale dunque: l’origine, incrociandosi con il rigore professionale, determina variazioni sulla carta niente affatto arbitrarie, si cambia a partire dalle materie prime, dal ciclo del loro prodursi, dalla naturale durata delle cose che sbocciano e fioriscono: una giornata e poi via, ed è per questo che la cucina in funzione e l’intero ristorante risentono soltanto di un delicatissimo profumo, come nelle migliori case. La fantasia della cucina non è né arbitraria né capricciosa, radica in un tempo naturale e ciclico. Il menu è la scrittura di questa filosofia.

(Lidia Campagnano)
"... For upon the permanent foundation of eggs, cutlets, potatoes, preserves, and biscuits, whose appearance on the table she no longer announced to us, Franoise would addas the labour of fields and orchards, the harvest of the tides, the luck of the markets, the kindness of neighbours, and her own genius might provide; and so effectively that our bill of fare, like the quatrefoils that were carved on the porches of cathedrals in the thirteenth century, reflected to some extent the march of the seasons and the incidents of human lifea brill, because the fish-woman had guaranteed its freshness; a turkey, because she had seen a beauty in the market at Roussainville-le-Pin; cardoons with marrow, because she had never done them for us in that way before; a roast leg of mutton, because the fresh air made one hungry and there would be plenty of time for it to settle down in the seven hours before dinner; spinach, by way of a change; apricots, because they were still hard to get; gooseberries, because in another fortnight there would be none left; raspberries, which M. Swann had brought specially; cherries, the first to come from the cherry-tree, which had yielded none for the last two years; a cream cheese, of which in those days I was extremely fond; an almond cake, because she had ordered one the evening before; a fancy loaf, because it was our turn to offer the holy bread." [continue »]
(Marcel Proust - "Swann's way")

Starters:

Salumi di oca con confettura di fichi e arance
Platter of goose salamis with figs and oranges marmalade
Tartare di barbabietola con sedanorapa marinato
Beet tartare with marinated celeriac
Terrina di cinghiale con gelatina di Picolit
Wild boar terrine with hazelnuts served with Picolit wine jelly
Patè di beccaccia tartufato
Woodcock patè with a truffle scent
Torchon di foie gras con composta di fichi secchi
Foie gras torchon with sun dried fig compote
Storione affumicato con insalata indivia belga ed olive nere
Smoked sturgeon on a belgian endive salad with black olives

Pasta courses:

Orecchiette con guanciale, melanzane e ricotta affumicata
Orecchiette with eggplants, bacon and smoked ricotta
Stracci al cacao con ragù di coniglio alle nocciole e timo
Fresh hand made pasta with a cocoa scent in a rabbit ragout with walnuts and thyme
Tortelli di radicchio e robiola in crema di zucca
Tortelli stuffed with radicchio and robiola on a pumpkin cream
Ravioli ripieni di orata alla lattuga
Gilthead ravioli with lattuce
Zuppa di cicerchia al profumo di salvia
Grass pea soup with a sage scent
Garganelli con coda di rospo, pesto e primizie
Garganelli (hand made pasta) with angler, basil pesto and season delicacies

Main courses:

Carre di agnello alla birra scura, sedano e zenzero
Roasted rack of lamb with stout beer, celery and ginger root
Filetto di manzo in crema di carciofi al foie gras
Filet mignon with an hartichoke and foie gras sauce
Filetto di cervo alle more
Deer filet with blackberries
Brasato di manzo al cioccolato fondente
Beef brasato with dark chocolate
Petto di faraona all’arancia e tè verde
Guinea fowl breast with orange and green tea

Side dishes:

Rucola e pomodoretti di Pachino
Rocket salad with cherry Sicilian tomatoes
Insalata di sedanorapa e pompelmi
celeriac salad with grapefruit
Insalata di finocchi e arance
Fennel salad with oranges
Carciofi gratinati alla ricotta affumicata
Artichokes au gratin with smoked ricotta

Desserts:

" And when all these had been eaten, a work composed expressly for ourselves, but dedicated more particularly to my father, who had a fondness for such things, a cream of chocolate, inspired in the mind, created by the hand of Franoise, would be laid before us, light and fleeting as an occasional piece of music, into which she had poured the whole of her talent. Anyone who refused to partake of it, saying: No, thank you, I have finished; I am not hungry, would at once have been lowered to the level of the Philistines who, when an artist makes them a present of one of his works, examine its weight and material, whereas what is of value is the creators intention and his signature. To have left even the tiniest morsel in the dish would have shewn as much discourtesy as to rise and leave a concert hall while the piece was still being played, and under the composers-very eyes."
"...and since my parents had told me that, for my first visit to the theatre, I should have to choose between these two pieces, I would study exhaustively and in turn the title of one and the title of the other (for those were all that I knew of either), attempting to snatch from each a foretaste of the pleasure which it offered me, and to compare this pleasure with that latent in the other title, until in the end I had shewn myself such vivid, such compelling pictures of, on the one hand, a play of dazzling arrogance, and on the other a gentle, velvety play, that I was as little capable of deciding which play I should prefer to see as if, at the dinner-table, they had obliged me to choose between rice lImpratrice and the famous cream of chocolate."
(Marcel Proust - "Swann's way")
Bavarese al caffè con mascarpone
Bavarian coffee pudding with mascarpone and cream cheese
Chocolate Decadence
Baked chocolate cream bordering on the illegal
Gelato alla vaniglia con crema di lamponi
Vanilla ice-cream with raspberry sauce
Mousse di cioccolato “Santo Domingo” con sedano sciroppato
“Santo Domingo” chocolate mousse with celery in syrup
Pere alla vaniglia con mousse di cocco
Pears poached in vanilla with coconut mousse
Sorbetti di frutta
Assorted fresh fruit sorbets
Torta di mele alla cannella
Apple cinnamon cake

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Caffè espresso
Coffee
Acqua Panna, Claudia, San Pellegrino
Water