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Antonia Klugmann: how the new judge of Masterchef has changed
Antonia Klugmann: how the new judge of Masterchef has changed

Video: Antonia Klugmann: how the new judge of Masterchef has changed

Video: Antonia Klugmann: how the new judge of Masterchef has changed
Video: Masterchef US S06E17 2024, March
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“Antonia, you will always find a job in the canteen if it goes wrong”.

Thus, with Friulian pragmatism, the mother commented on the decision of Antonia Klugmann, 28 38, Trieste chef of "L’Argine a Vencò", in Collio, in the province of Gorizia, or throwing away her career as a lawyer to become a cook.

A courageous choice, given that hard work in professional kitchens was (and continues to be) dominated by men, but the new judge of Masterchef Italia, who in the 7th edition of the program starting tomorrow on SkyUno takes the place of Carlo Cracco, had cooking in his blood more than right, as he told in a beautiful interview with Vanity Fair.

We summarize it divided by topics.

Goodbye jurisprudence: I'm sorry, I have to go (to the kitchen)

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He was taking his law exams but in the meantime he was attending a cooking class in Altopalato. She came home transformed. During the day, at night, he only thought about cooking, choosing products, inventing dishes, trying combinations, experimenting.

The beginnings were hard work and apprenticeship, with the duties of dishwasher and factotum: “I worked in a luggage shop in Trieste, I made sweets. People said: however, these cakes are good. I was lucky. At that time the owner was opening a restaurant with a chef. He asks me: do you want to try as an intern? Only later did I learn that he and the chef had bet: this lasts four days. Well, instead I stayed there for four years, I learned the trade.

But she needs the experience immediately to understand that she wants to be the boss, as will happen in 2006 at the Antico Foledor Conte Lovaria in Pavia di Udine, in 2012 at the Ridotto in Venice, and since 2014 at the Argine di Vencò.

Fate in a zucchini (and in an accident)

Things didn't go smoothly right away. A car accident risks throwing everything away. But she comes out alive and discovers the garden, where she can get back in touch with the earth. Learn to respect seasonality and to give his kitchen the unmistakable mark of today.

"It happened almost twelve years ago now. A drunk guy with a van comes at me at 190 per hour. I'm alone on the highway, near Latisana (Udine). The car starts spinning like a top. I have three thoughts. I think: it's over. I think: do not remain paralyzed. I think: if death has to be, let it be with a snap. Then a terrible blow, but I get out alive. A year of therapy. And no cooking. Just swimming, massage, rehabilitation. It is at that moment that I begin to "feel" the flavors and discover the garden ".

A job for real men and women

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The younger generations who grew up on bread and Masterchef think that working in the kitchen is a piece of cake. Klugmann explains it thus:

“Ours is hard work, to be done with culture, consistency and modernity. You have to give up so much of yourself. You have to take into account the fatigue, you have to live with the pain. You don't know how many injections I've had, how many painkillers I've taken. Once, years ago, in the kitchen people helped each other with drugs and alcohol; not today. You wouldn't even last ten minutes."

Masterchef: minus ten kilos (Hey, Endemol, are you taking me too?)

It is inevitable to talk about Masterchef 7, recorded during the summer and which saw Antonia working side by side with famous colleagues.

“I didn't like it - says Klugmann - it was as if I were looking at myself through the mirror. TV flattens everything.

Later he made peace with the enthralling rhythms of the culinary competition: “MasterChef opened my mind. For two months I took care of myself. I had never authorized myself to take care of my frivolous side”. So here are high heels and 10 kilos less:

“At MasterChef I wore heels for the first time in my life. Very painful, but beautiful. I played sports, I used to go running: and this did me good. Before entering I was wearing a 48, now a 42. I lost ten kilos: better this way isn't it? Now I'm happy with my aesthetic side. And I know that nothing bad happens when you enter a perfumery.

Welcome, Antonia.

Masterchef: if colleagues were flat

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Antonia Klugmann plays with her colleagues linking Barbieri to tortellini and mortadella, Bastianich to hamburgers and Cannavaccioulo to a plate of pasta, “but very elegant, because her hands are so graceful…”.

Let's burn the sac à poche in the square

The Friulian chef is absolutely right when she says that most female chefs are confined to the sweet side while the main dishes are left to male colleagues. As well as when he points out the difference in consideration between men and women in the kitchen:

“In the minds of many chefs, women are only good at making pastry chefs. If a male chef is authoritarian, he is said to be one with charisma and personality. If she is a woman, on the other hand, she is hysterical and pain in the ass. Do you understand the difference? . And of course, Antonia, it is the same one that passes between the elderly mandrill and the old peripatetic.

Fortunately, now, at least in the kitchen (and at Masterchef), Antonia Klugmann has arrived. For the rest, we still have a lot to do.

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