Passatelli with meat sauce and mushrooms

Soave is a small town at the feet of the Lessini mountains, halfway between Verona and Vicenza. It is a small village with a great history of over a thousand years, as shown by the town walls which surround its centre and the precious Scaligero castle, which offers an enchanted view of lake Garda and the Po valley.

Aristide welcomes us to his beautiful home not far from the centre. Cooking is a real passion for him, one developed as a young man. In fact, his love for cooking blossomed during his military service, when he guarded the barracks and had to cook for all his comrades. “On those occasions - he tells us - our Commander himself would come down from his lodgings upstairs and he would bring food back to his whole family”. Aristide still expresses this passion today, through his recipes, which embody the rich and tasty gastronomic tradition of the Veronese table.