{"id":150853,"date":"2025-07-11T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookinc.it\/?p=150853"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:15:01","slug":"mind-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookinc.it\/en\/2025\/07\/11\/mind-the-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind the gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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The 250\/100<\/em> historical menu by Davide Scabin<\/strong>, currently featured at Carignano <\/strong>in Turin<\/strong>, has set in motion a long-contemplated project: the complete mapping of the chef\u2019s work. The following text traces its genesis and outlines the conceptual foundations of this initiative, which aims to capture \u2013 in a timeless, non-biographical form \u2013 the defining traits of his cuisine that have marked turning points in contemporary gastronomic thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prologue<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cWhat have you been doing all these years, Noodles?\u201d
\u201cI went to bed early.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In one of the most iconic sequences in the history of cinema, De Niro opens Once Upon a Time in America<\/em> with this cryptic exchange.
The reference to the much-quoted yet seldom-read opening of Proust\u2019s In Search of Lost Time<\/em> is inevitable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longtemps, je me suis couch\u00e9 de bonne heure.<\/em> In both cases, interpretations abound, and no single reading prevails over the others when it comes to the meaning behind the two protagonists\u2019 \u201cgoing to bed early.\u201d
A reflection on the past?
An awareness of a time that will never return?
An admission of a time that could have been, but never was?
Or, conversely, the serene anticipation of a time still waiting to unfold?
Why not instead a sense of inner peace for a time that has already expressed itself to the fullest \u2013 so that one turns in early to luxuriate in that liminal space between wakefulness and sleep, where the recognition of the entire universe resides?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brilliance of this expression lies precisely in its refusal to be definitive: it is essential to the work it introduces, yet it does not dictate how the viewer must experience it.
It conveys, without embellishment, the protagonist\u2019s position, but leaves the listener free to draw their own conclusion according to their own state of mind  \u2013according to what they are seeking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its strength resides in the shifting nature of the audience: each time we rewatch Once Upon a Time in America<\/em>, Noodles will always give the same answer; each time we reread In Search of Lost Time<\/em>, the novel will always open with the same line.
But in watching again, in reading again, we<\/em> will not be the same \u2013 and the taste of that phrase will plunge us into our own personal gaze upon the past, and into whatever meaning retrospection holds at that precise moment in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t

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