"Purity is the supreme synthesis of flavour, it is essentiality and then beauty. Searching for purity means making the synthesis of something extremely complex but in a clear way and catching the quintessence. Synthesis is the hardest thing to achieve, but it is the form of beauty I am searching for."

“Verticality of flavour, in its full expression, is at the core of my cuisine. I try to go deep down the matter before exploring its content. It is like bringing back an unknown world by unfolding flavours which are unexpected and completely new."

“The effect my cuisine creates is like a magnifying glass that makes the matter appear clearer and brings into focus what I thought I could see clearly but it was actually blurred. My dishes represent a clearer and deeper expression of the ingredient: they are based on common and recognisable elements but with a greater intensity and complexity.”

“My research and experimentation on vegetables blazes new trails. It gives me an incredible creative excitement although it requires the highest precision. The most unexpected results are achieved by using common ingredients, like a carrot or an onion.”

“My cuisine is not tasty in spite of being light, it is tasty because it is light. I leave no room for the superfluous to intensify flavours and make them purer. Flavours are more intense and dishes healthier, which is fundamental: not only a chef has to know how to cook well but he has to make people eat well.”

“I am privileged to live in Abruzzo, surrounded by nature, where biodiversity is all around. This offers me varieties of products to experiment, such as the wheat from Solina variety. Ten years ago, I started my research on bread because I really wanted to give value to this variety, which was rather uncommon at that time. But there’s more; those mountains, the quietness they evoke and the loneliness they imply, helped me stay more focused and be aware of my path.”

“When I start creating a new dish, I never know where I will end up. I start working on the flavour, scent and texture and when after the first bites and tries, I realize that something is not working, I try to understand why and in doing so, I am taken where I would never expect to get. It’s right there where my push comes from, trying to change what I don’t like and questioning even what I have always taken for granted. My recipes are constantly evolving.”

“My cuisine tells exactly who I am, but it is always functional to the project it is serving. It is a kind of ‘useful creativity”: behind any creation –from a dish for Reale to the iconic Bomba – they all express my thought but each of them makes it by using context-appropriate languages. The results of the great research work we have been doing at Reale follow various formats and there is a constant exchanging among them, they are mutually feeding each other according to the principle of communicating vessels.”