Mediterranean: Cradle of Italian Gastronomy

“French culinary hegemony will last until Italian chefs realize the enormous heritage, they have at their disposal, both from the point of view of raw materials and from the point of view of the many facets of regional traditions”. To pronounce this phrase was not an Italian, but a Frenchman, Paul Bocuse, the founder, along with Pierre Troisgros, of Nouvelle Cuisine.