“Territories & Contaminations” is the theme of Tuesday, July 8’s four-handed dinner at Modus Milano on Corso Magenta by Paolo De Simone and Cesare Battisti. The event, organized in collaboration with 50 Top Pizza and included in the official calendar of Pizza Week 2025. A menu created under the sign of sharing between territorial contaminations and gastronomic research designed to tell the story of Italian cuisine in a contemporary key. Paolo De Simone of Modus – Semplice Mangiare and a contemporary interpreter of Cilento cuisine, who has always been attentive to sustainability, biodiversity and health, and Cesare Battisti, chef and host of the Ratanà restaurant in Milan, a reference point for traditional Lombard cuisine revisited even if with different culinary identities and styles, share the search for excellent raw materials, selected from small producers and the attention to sustainability. Dulcis in fundo, the signature dessert by Master Pastry Chef Giuseppe Manilia, interpreter of Italian haute patisserie, who will preview one of his new creations. Giuseppe Manilia has received numerous awards such as in 2012 for the Best Hazelnut Dessert in the World, in 2017 the title of Pastry Chef of the Year, during the XXIII Public Symposium of the Accademia Maestri Pasticceri Italiani (AMPI), was awarded to him, while his establishment received the Three Cakes in the Gambero Rosso’s Pastry Chefs & Pastry Shops guide. In 2021, he was awarded among the best pastry chefs in the world by Iginio Massari during the Host Fair in Milan.
