Nadia thanks her parents who taught her that work is not a tool but a value in life and how extraordinarily demanding but moving it is to get up early in the morning, turn on the stove, organize the ingredients, monitor the cooking of the cuts of meat, let yourself be carried away by the scents of butter... bay leaves... nutmeg and finally taste the braised “càrdine” of the filling of the “Nodi d'Amore”, famous tortellini from Valeggio: treasure chests of flavor enclosed in a drape of golden pasta as thin as silk.

A sense of absolute quiet envelops the mind, it is not the antechamber of exaltation for a well-made dish but the realization of a possible dream, the happiness that you feel at the end of the gastronomic marathon... not a trophy or the podium, the satisfaction of the fact that concentration, training and effort have been rewarded!