There are few things better than a good plate of pasta cooked with love to make you feel close to a community affected by an unpredictable and devastating event: with this awareness, Adriana Vallone, chef and owner of a cooking school in Japan, is preparing to leave for the Noto peninsula, which is still on its knees after the violent earthquake of January 1, 2024, which had a Richter scale magnitude of 7.6. Vallone will be on the front lines cooking 1,000 dinners between March 31 and April 2 as part of an initiative funded by I Love Italian Food, an international network that defends and promotes Italian food and wine culture worldwide. More than 70 individuals were active in the field, including cooks, students from Adriana Vallone's cooking school "La mia Italia" (established in Japan 23 years ago), and friends involved in the solidarity initiative. The chef is on board an equipped camper, preparing to depart Tokyo for a more than 9-hour trek to the Noto peninsula. Meal preparations are already underway: the menu includes Barilla pasta with meat sauce and porcini mushrooms, minestrone, orange cake with chocolate chips, San Pellegrino water, Italian espresso coffee supplied by Filicori Zecchini, a producer of quality coffee for more than a century in Bologna, and other Italian producers present in Japan, accepted the initiative and made their own contribution.
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