Winning over all was the preparation of Beltrame, a hotel school in Vittorio Veneto (TV) that hosted the 6th National Pastry Championship.
Organized by the International Federation of Pastry, Ice Cream and Chocolate Making (FIPGC),the championship saw the awarding of the new national champions during a Gala evening held yesterday, Thursday, September 11, at CastelBrando di Cison di Valmarino (TV), in the heart of the Unesco Heritage area.
As many as 30 teams competing representing 16 regions of Italy and each composed of two students who, after three days of competition in the halls of the Beltrame Institute, were able to celebrate the new national pastry champions yesterday.
Sara Gioia Montisci and Filippo Fois, students fromIIS “Domenico Alberto Azuni” in Cagliari , won the title with a creation entitled Kondura, a Greek term from which the word gondola is derived, in homage to the Veneto region. A dessert composed of dark chocolate mousse, vanilla namelaka, Veneto marasca cherry gelèe, cocoa and honey millefiori biscuit soaked in kirsch and honey and hazelnut crunch. All contained in packaging made of natural cork, a product of Sardinia, personalized with the image of the lion of St. Mark, symbol of the Veneto region. A choral project, to which all the winners’ classmates contributed.
On the second step of the podium were Vanessa Antonelli and Ahmed El Haqaoui fromIIS “G. RENDA” of Polistena (Reggio Calabria); bronze medal to theInstitute Ecole Hoteliere de La Vallee D’aoste of Aosta represented by students Julian Mella and Alessio Michelini.
Impeccable service and hospitality were shown by the Beltrame students at the Gala, which offered attendees a privileged overview of the area’s products of excellence, recounting, from appetizer to dessert, the great food and wine of the Veneto region.
“It was a wonderful event, a result we achieved thanks to the many sponsors who supported us,” says manager Letizia Cavallini. ” Organizing the 6th edition of the National Pastry Championship was certainly an honor but also a burden that required great energy and resources. The territory has shown that it has understood the importance of this event by supporting us concretely, as in the case of Irinox, Electrolux Professional and Lainox, which have provided us with very important technical equipment such as ovens and blast chillers, indispensable tools for pastry making. I congratulate on behalf of the entire Beltrame with the students of the Azuni Institute of Cagliari to whom we pass the baton and the honor of organizing the 7th national championship.”
Great success also for the live social broadcast of the entire championship on the social channels of the Beltrame Institute, which exceeded 5,000 views.
Finally, a great novelty of this edition, the “1st Festival of Sweet and Savory Pastries of the Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene” has been established, an initiative created with the specific aim of enhancing local and artisanal pastry that, in fact, has been able to tell “with sweetness” a territory that has always been able to make its own excellent productions unique.
