PIEDMONT, Wines, Truffles, Hazelnuts, Chocolate

We met Carlo Zarri several years ago at a promotional travel event. Carlo was with a delegation of business owners from the Piedmont region. We did some work together since, I sent some people to his hotel restaurant and moreover we kept in touch in a way or the other. In the mean time Carlo reputation has risen to very high level. Executive chef, in charge of pruducing 15,000 meals a day, with the Italian ski team at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake and with the Italian team at the Summer Olympic games in Athens. In between Carlo and his wife Paola, who supervises the dining room and cellar took care of the dinner party for the wedding of Carlo Ponti Jr. son of super-star Sophia Loren and movie producer Carlo Ponti, as well as the annual celebration party of the Ferrari racing tem, an event for about 650 people on November 27/2004. Carlo Zarri is the chef owner of the Hotel San Carlo in Cortemilia a small town in the Langhe area of Piedmont, better known not only for the white truffle production but for the Barbera and Barolo wines. Carlo is offering some cooking and wine tasting classes for a small number of serious chefs and or beginners and food lovers. Here are the programs dates and prices. Send this page to a friend Download tour brochure (free)