Massimo Bottura Biography
Massimo Bottura is an Italian restaurateur and the chef patron of the three-Michelin-starred Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy. It has twice been ranked number one on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list and is currently on the Best of the Best list.
How old is Massimo Bottura? – Age
He is 60 years old as of 30 September 2022. He was born in 1962 in Modena, Italy.
Massimo Bottura Family – Education
He is the son of Alfio Bottura, and Luisa Bottura. He has two siblings; Paolo Bottura, and Andrea Bottura. He became interested in cooking at a young age after observing his mother, grandmother, and aunt prepare meals for the family. After finishing high school, he enrolled in law school at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, but he dropped out in 1986 to join the family business, where he began as a trader of petroleum goods.
How did Massimo Bottura meet his wife?
He is married to Lara Gilmore. He met his wife, Lara Gilmore, a New Yorker, about 20 years ago when they started working at Caffé di Nonna in New York’s SoHo on the same day. They have two children; Charlie Bottura, and Alexa Bottura.
Massimo Bottura Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.6 million.
Massimo Bottura Restaurant
Catalan chef Ferran Adrià welcomed Bottura to his restaurant “El Bulli” in Spain in 2000, where the Modenese chef studied the fundamentals of molecular gastronomy. In 2011, he took over the Modena restaurant “Franceschetta58.” While Osteria Francescana serves an unorthodox take on Italian food, Bottura’s second restaurant, Franceschetta58, is a contemporary bistro serving local ingredients in a pleasant setting.
Massimo Bottura reopened the Cavallino restaurant in June 2021 in partnership with Ferrari and architect and designer India Mahdavi, with the goal of bringing fresh life to this famous location that embodies Ferrari’s heritage and the culinary traditions of Emilia Romagna.
Massimo Bottura has dedicated himself to the manufacturing of PGI Balsamic Vinegar from Modena and extra virgin olive oil with his Villa Manodori brand of condiments since 1995, the consequence of his persistent pursuit for the greatest quality ingredients.
Massimo Bottura Food for Soul
In 2015, related to the Exhibition Milan, Bottura completed a task in a joint effort with Caritas Ambrosiana: the Refettorio Ambrosiano; this venture, pointed toward inviting individuals out of luck, with the assistance of in excess of fifty gourmet specialists permitted the recuperation of around fifteen tons of food excess coming about because of the Exhibition. The Refettorio Ambrosiano project is dynamic right up to the present day and the model has been repeated in various regions of the planet.
In Brazil, the undertaking was introduced during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in a joint effort with culinary expert David Hertz: the Refettorio Gastromotiva.
As a result of these tasks, in 2016 Bottura and his better half established Nourishment for Soul, a philanthropic affiliation that, through the day-to-day work of Refettorios all over the planet, targets differentiating food waste and social segregation through the force of excellence, the nature of thoughts and the worth of cordiality.
To bring issues to light on these issues, in 2017 Massimo Bottura distributed the book “Bread is Gold” with Phaidon Press – “Il Sheet è Oro,” distributed in Italian by Ippocampo. The book gathers recipes, thoughts, and encounters of the culinary experts who cooked at Refettorio Ambrosiano during its initial a half year, to welcome perusers to see the fixings in storage rooms and home fridges with various eyes.
From that point forward, Nourishment for Soul has fostered a few ventures all over the planet as a team with neighborhood accomplices. By building local area spaces where individuals are welcome to interface around a feast, Nourishment for Soul expects to exhibit the worth and capability of individuals, spots, and food and urge the local area effectively upheld social change.
In 2020, during the Coronavirus pandemic, Nourishment for Soul Refettorios proceeded to work and support those most out of luck; not just that, a pledge drive was likewise sent off through which in excess of 35 tons of surplus food were recuperated in a solitary month and in excess of 100,000 dinners were conveyed to individuals in weak circumstances and bleeding edge wellbeing laborers.
Later, Refettorio Ambrosiano and Refettorio Gastromotiva, Nourishment for Soul opened Refettorio Felix in London, Refettorio Paris, Refettorio Antoniano in Bologna, and Refettorio Made in Group in Naples. Regardless of the circumstance because of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, Nourishment for Soul has kept chipping away at new undertakings to help neighborhood networks and differentiation food waste and social disconnection.
Refettorios Mérida and Lima opened their entryways in 2020, alongside Refettorio Harlem in New York and Refettorio San Francisco in California, while in 2021 it was the turn of Refettorio OzHarvest Refectory in Sydney and Refettorio Geneva in Switzerland, while different activities are presently underway.
Massimo Bottura Career
he quit working for his family and took over Trattoria del Campazzo, close to Nonantola, where he extended his insight into Emilian cooking with the backing of rezdora Lidia Cristoni. He later extended his insight into old style French food because of examples given by Georges Coigny, uniting his culinary establishments on a blend of provincial Italian cooking and traditional French preparation.
In 1993 he moved to New York and worked in an Italian bistro. There he met Lara Gilmore, his future spouse. Following nine months, he got back to Modena and in 1994 started a temporary job of a while with Alain Ducasse at his café “Le Louis XV” in Monte Carlo. In 1995 he got back to Modena and assumed control over a customary trattoria in the core of the city, Osteria Francescana, which formally opened on 19 Walk of that very year. In 2013, he took part in the Extended time of Italian Culture in the US and was the principal character in an episode of the fifth time of the program The Observer facilitated by Pif.
He is one of the ten overseers of the Basque Culinary Center instructional hub. In 2015 he featured in the principal episode of the Netflix narrative “Gourmet specialist’s Table.”
In 2018 he opened Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura in Florence, the support of the Renaissance, with the longing to respect the association of nearby practices and multicultural experiences. As a matter of fact, the café is granted its most memorable Michelin Star in 2019. In mid 2020, Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura likewise made its ways for people in general in Beverly Slopes, Los Angeles, and get its most memorable Michel star the next year. All the more as of late Gucci Osteria opened in Tokyo, in August 2021, and in Seoul, in February 2022, with extraordinary accomplishment too. In November 2022, Gucci Osteria Tokyo was additionally granted its most memorable Michelin Star.
In February 2019, Bottura worked in a joint effort with W Lodgings to open Torno Subito at W Dubai – The Palm on Palm Jumeirah. In May of that very year, he opened another neighborliness idea with his significant other Lara Gilmore: Casa Maria Luigia, a country motel situated on an eighteenth century property in the Modenese open country.
In June 2020, alongside different culinary experts, draftsmen, Nobel laureates in financial matters, and heads of global associations, he marked the require a purple economy (“For a social renaissance of the economy”) distributed in Corriere della Sera, El País and Le Monde.
In September of that very year, Massimo Bottura was named Generosity Minister for the Unified Countries Climate Program (UNEP), on the event of the introduction of the Global Day of Attention to Food Misfortune and Waste.