Emma Freud cooks for Gennaro Contaldo
Mar 26, 2020
4 minutes
photographs DAVID COTSWORTH
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Gennaro Contaldo – the man who taught Jamie how to cook Italian food – came to my house where I made him his rigatoni cake. Both the dish, and the chat, were spectacular.
He arrives at my house, shouting ‘I am here!’ as he climbs the stairs, and before even walking through the door, thrusts four huge, intricately carved walking sticks into my arms. Making them is his hobby and each takes two weeks to carve with a whittling knife. ‘I’ll use them for mushroom
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