Being behind the counter and in front of the cooker feels familiar to Carlo Cracco; here he shows us step by step, ingredient after ingredient, how to cook his spaghetti with cocoa beans, purple cabbage and salmon roe.  It is with this dish that Masterchef Italia’s former judge, introduced by the ambassador of Italian taste in America, Lidia Bastianich, opened the ninth season of Identità Golose, which debuted in Los Angeles for the first time. 

After New York, where the main theme was the human factor, more specifically the relationship between the chefs and their collaborators both in the kitchen and in the dining room, in California everything revolves around “fire,” the most ancient source of heat known to Man.