Ep. 319 #iobevoacasa - LOCKDOWN SERIES | Giancarlo Gariglio and Giuseppe LoCascio

Well, let's do this. I'll tell you one recipe that Barbara did very, very well, and you tell me one recipe that your wife did very, very well. Welcome to the Italian wine podcast lockdown series. Every Monday will be connecting with Italian wine people. Join us to find out what they're doing and drinking today. This podcast is brought to you by Colangelo and Partners, the leading fine wine and spirits agency in the US. Visit Colangelo and partners on w w w dot colangelo p r dot com. Or I should say good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good good morning for you. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's eleven o'clock more or less here in New York. And, it's finally a nice, sunny day. We had, pretty bad weather so far, but Fania has a little bit, a little bit of some. Our things, in in bra. Hi, in bra. We live for a two month, for for me in a very small apartment with two daughters. And so it's not so easy, but, I'm lucky because, other people are not so it's not so good with, at the same, at the same, is is not easy for other people. So I, I think I'm, I'm lucky my, my situation is is so quite good. I'm sure. John Cabo, just a quick question. Can you refresh your memory and, tell us a little bit what you do? I'm the the editor of the slow wine guide that, is a wine guide that we we make in Italy for a zoo food moment is, we we made for ten years, the this this guide, and the two thousand twenty edition is the ten, ten editions. So you during my life, normally, I I I taste a lot of wines. I drink a lot of wines, and, I visit a lot of wineries because our job it's very it's very nice. We we travel a lot to to discover new wineries, to discover a new territory, terawatts. And also, three years that, we started also to, review some wineries from, California and Oregon. This is very nice. And so I travel a lot in US and very, I love traveling. This, in this moment, it's very difficult to also for this, in a situation. I I can't travel as a part of my life. The most important thing that, we introduce with this guide is that, we visit every year, every wineries. And our how are we managing all this in the situation where you can travel? And I believe in Italy, you can't, at this time, you can't even cross the boundaries of every region. So How are you changing the way the guide is it's it's been prepared? The our decision is that, we we will make the the visit, but, with digital with the probably with this issue. So this system with Zoom and, or Skype. And, maybe, I think it will be a different things, but, probably, it will be nice because, in our, reminder is that, record every visit with Zoom or Skype, and after we can collect all the visits. And, probably, we can use to, to to put also some, a clear code on the the guide, and you can see after the the visit that we made in every wine list. So Maybe for the guide is not so bad. It's bad for us because, during the visit, it's very nice to meet the people to talk with the people. And it's also a moment very in important to know better the region or this wines and also in the way in the, in what people grow the vineyards is very important. Also, for the reason that you you told before. So for the, the thing that, we love to to explain to the, our either. So, not only the taste of the wines, but also what you can find outside the glass. Listen, going back to, you know, how this whole thing changed our lives. Barbara and I don't have any kids. And so we, we, we spend most of our time either working or reading or things like that. I know you have, two kids, two daughters, I believe, And I bet you've been spending time, helping them with your homework. But how do you balance that with your personal life? So I guess, I mean, I try to exercise every day. What do you do? I mean, how do you balance the family? And your personal time. Usually, I woke up very early six o'clock. And for the two first hours. Usually, I I decide to to make a thing that I never make. I never made. It's write a book. I've I'm writing, a drama, a tree. But, maybe never, read. Never will read the this this this book because it's only, like, and I'll be and, but I I'll be happy to be your publisher. I'll publish it. I'll be very happy to do that. I I finished the the the the the trailer one week ago, and now I'm just reading. I I read a very nice phrase about the trust book also that, in a in a bad time is right. Right is the only thing that, you can, make, not crazy. And, and I think it's, it's a right, right, phrase because in this period, I I'm writing and so I'm thinking other things, and I'm trying to to to to other stories and other other things. Very nice. So I do the same, man. You know, I try to keep my mind busy and off the newspapers and all of that. And so I'm reading a couple different different things. I'm reading this thing from Harvard Business School and strategy. I love strategy. And then I found this book that is called The Beauty and the Terror. Wow. And it's about Italy during renaissance, but not from the point of view of the art of the, beautiful, you know, moments that, Italy's story, witnessed it during the rainy sunset's bottom up more about, like, the the wars and the struggles of all because Italy back then was, as you know, made of many different states. And these states, we're not getting along. So it's actually a good way to think about what happened in the past. Let's see what we can do today to avoid the same mistakes. What about exercising? Because I don't know about you, but I try to balance the drinking and the eating with a little bit of exercise. So Yes. Also before the virus usually, I may, I made, like, thirty minutes, every day to some exercise. And now I even prove the the number of exercise. In the moment, I I'm I'm making, like, forty five minutes, one hour. Wow. In the morning, I'll out in the afternoon. Not bad. It's very it's nice. I use, some app on the iPhone. It's so What is your routine? Because I can tell you, I do three days and three days. I interchange exercises and try to make it always interesting and fun because otherwise it's boring as l. So how do you keep it interesting for you? How does it work? I have a boss. This is my Apple watch. Nice. My boss and decide everything for me. And I have some apps. And would you like to exercise with you or your exercise? Sorry, sir. No. No. No. I long. And during that exercise, usually, I, listen, podcast from, it's made by an incredible t shirt of history. It Alistandro Barbero. It's very nice, you know, person. It's wonderful post podcast. And so when I made my exercise, I I air about a napoleona on Garibaldi, Marzini, cabura, or some Doricaro, this is for the burning part of the calories. What about the cleaning part of the calories? Are you cooking, or is your wife cooking, or you're eating both? Both. Both. Because, I like very much to cook. It's very it's it's a part very important for my life and it's very nice. And, but also my my wife is very It's a very good cooker. So let's do this. I'll tell you one recipe that Parpera did very, very well, and you tell me one recipe that your wife did very, very well. You wanna start the before I start. So that's about two weeks ago, but I made an amazing ragu. Okay. So, bread sauce and meat. And because we, we wanted to kind of flavor it up a little bit, we used bacon. I know that's kind of an exception to the Italian rule. Yeah. Trust me, it was amazing. It was probably the best meal we had during quarantine. And, you know, we don't do much pasta, but we indulged because the sauce was absolutely fantastic. Really, really good. Be aided for, like, two days straight. So what about you? My my wife is, from tasking. So it's not semantics. Yeah. I I, I married a task anger and Well, I made it a few more days. Imagine that. Yeah. And, so, yeah, she's very, a good cooker. And, I I love the, some tuscan, recipes like, Papalco, during the summer. This is not the season. And during the, the winter and the spring is very nice. The rebolita. I love that. Probably tonight, I she will cook probably because, the weather is not so good. And we have to cook on the terrace. We we will make the fiorentina. We we bought a very big Bistekka. Nice. And probably we will make the the fiorentina. But I'm not sure because the weather is it's not it's not so good. So and do you have a tool? Do you already have a wine to go with that? Have you thought about opening something special or But I would probably we have some Barolo because yesterday, I make a a testing with zoom with the producer, and I open, like, six or seven different bottles. And Nice. I have I have all a lot of bottles. Open it. And so we can match, different wines with the with the Bistek. Barbara, the day made the the with the end of it. Wow. Yeah. It was pretty good. It's very pigmentation. We're doing a lot of, like, regional dishes. Sometimes, like, something from Cicities, sometimes from, from, from binmont. So, you know, we're trying to balance the regionality of it. So listen, one more question. Do you help your kids with the, with the homework? Are you, do you also have to double your time as a teacher? How does it work? Yeah. I divide with my my wife, the the the job to to try to make their own work, but she's very nice. She she have she has to improve also the knowledge. She have to she has to make more, more things, more concepts. So it's not to simply own work. So it's not so easy, but, she she's nice because it's, a different things. Never, think about, to, to teach, about math or, Italian, or Well, it's definitely a, a much more engaging way to being a parent, for sure. And, you know, it's a lot of work but probably, of all things this is gonna keep us all more, you know, close together and all that. Check out, Lisa, and thank you very much for your time. Unfortunately, I don't have a glass with me, but It's only a little it's a little earlier in New York. Well, I wish I could have a problem. We'll probably gonna have something tonight. Probably a white, I think, because we're gonna probably gonna go for a lighter dinner. So listen, thank you very much. I appreciate your time and, and and chatting with you. And I hope you see you soon. We are probably, hopefully, coming back to PMont in August. So maybe we'll see you then. And I hope, but I'm not sure. I have, I I have planned a, a travel to US. To Philadelphia Okay. In, in the middle of September. Well, you know, if you're coming to New York, I don't know if restaurants will be working by then, but we will love to, I do for dinner. Thanks a lot. 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