Chef Riccardo Messora delights many palates in Melbourne, Australia. Chef Messora originally came from the Livono doc, but he lived in Scarlino, a hillside village in the Grosseto area, on the Gulf of Follonica.

Italian cooking is very popular in Melbourne - Riccardo tells usbecause of the high number of Italians who live there (it is the Australian city with the largest Italian community: of approximately 3,800,000 inhabitants, a good 600,000 are Italian) and any restaurant of any ethnic background has at least one or more Italian dishes on the menu!

When Riccardo speaks, he does not have any Tuscan accent, but rather an Anglo-Saxon accent. This makes us realize that several years have gone by since, after having attended the hotel management school in Clusone in the Bergamo region, he decided to move to London. Herehe spent 8 years, working for important private restaurants and clubs such as Harry’s Bar, Criterion, Escargot and Drones. He then decided to move to Australia where he has been living and working for the past 4 years.

Enoteca Sileno, located in the Lygon Street Italian district is where Riccardo prepares its delicious Tuscan dishes, as ricotta and tuscan black cabbage gnocchi with wild boar ragu’ maremma style.

“The wine cellar and its restaurant, wine bar and showroom are a real institution in Melbourne, besides being one of the main companies in the importation of wines and Italian food products,” says Riccardo. Events, tasting, Italian cooking lessons, often in collaboration with the renowned Australian cooking school William Angliss are held at the Enoteca.

This school, as Pauline Dine, spokesman for William Angliss, states, has formed a strong partnership with the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Melbourne, working on various projects and promoting exchange programs for students and teachers in order to foster Italian culture and its philosophy.

Contacts
Enoteca Sileno
www.enoteca.com.au

William Angliss
http://www.angliss.vic.edu.au/

From the character to the individual, from laugher to reflection. This is the new Panariello. He is no longer the Tuscan performer who we have known for so many years who is capable of entertaining us for hours and hours during his show.

Now he is also engaged in the struggle for the defense of animals. This is certainly not because his activities would make us talk more about him. Giorgio does not need this kind of attention.

He is busy with his show “Del mio meglio live” which is part of the summer competition that began on the 14th of July last year in the Verona Arena, and included performances in Modena, Taormina, Palermo, Lecce, Cagliari, and Florence on the 4th and 5^th of September.

A cocktail that combines theatre, culture and solidarity in which there are alternating monologues between his most successful characters and moments of bitter reflection when there is talk of abandoned or badly treated animals.

Panariello started his noble project as an ambassador of the association “La squadra per gli Animali” that brings together Enpa, LAV, and the Lega Nazionale per la Difesa del Cane e Animalisti Italiani, the biggest national associations of animalists who have joined together to defend animals in difficulty.


The project has taken off thanks to the important contribution received In June on the occasion of the 39th edition of the Baroque Prize awarded by LucianoVinella, a well known entrepreneur from Puglia.

Its success also follows donations made during the summer championship and profits from Panariello’s book.Panariello’s “Non ti lascerò mai solo”, edited by Mondadori, is in bookstores from the 4th of October - which is also the festival of San Francesco, the patron ofanimals. Francesco is also the protagonist of a story about the relationship between a man and a dog.
Panariello, like the protagonist of this novel, has had his lifechanged for the better by his two dogs, Crusca and Zeus. 

Information on the web:
www.giorgiopanariello.it
www.lasquadraperglianimali.it