Friday, October 30^th, inaugural toast with the wines of Strada del Barolo. Saturday, October 31^st and Sunday, November 1^st, two open days with free tours. 

Its name will be tɛrra and will be opened on Friday, October 30^th: it’s the International School of Alba White Truffle, which has found its home in the Roddi Castle. The name recalls the deep bond with the territory and focuses on three key ingredients: authenticity, locality and excellence of raw materials.

The Barolo & Castles Foundation, to which the Municipality of Roddi has given the custody of the castle kitchens, entrusted the Academy FoodLab of Turin – school of excellence in the culinary Piedmontese scenario, deeply rooted in the region capital – to provide a soul to a project that started out a few months ago, taking care of content and educational organization.

The International School of Alba White Truffle

tɛrra will host amateur and professional courses in Italian, English and French, in order to spread the enormous richness of the local cuisine and that of the Alba White Truffle. Some 600 square meters of total area and a modern kitchen with teaching stations equipped for 14 people, each with LCD monitor to better understand the chef’s teaching. But also wide spaces to create settings for business events, a classroom to organize tasting courses with local wines, which will soon become home to the Wine Tasting Experience®, a professional kitchen and a hall that in the future might become a dining room.

tɛrra will propose totally practical lessons, tutoring in Italian, English and French, traditional dishes of Piedmont and the Langhe territory, with particular attention to the use of truffles in all its forms. Furthermore, tasting of the precious Tuber Magnatum Pico, the use of white truffles and black truffles in the kitchen, cooking lessons lasting from two hours to half a day, in the morning and the afternoon. Finally, tailored lessons for lunch and dinner and, on request, every day of the year, culinary events and tastings, workshops and cooking team building.

Inside the Roddi Castle, thanks to a donation by his family, it will be opened, at the same time, the museum dedicated to Giacomo Morra, historic hotelier and restaurateur of the hotel “Savona” of Alba, who was rightly crowned King of Truffles already in 1933 by the “Times” of London and who was a pioneer in the international tourist promotion of Langhe through the Tuber Magnatum Pico.

And there will also be initiatives dedicated to wine with Strada del Barolo, which will offer, inside the Truffle Kitchen, food tastings as well as the renowned Wine Tasting Experiences®.

OPENING PROGRAMME

– Friday, October 30^th, 6.00pm: ribbon-cutting ceremony of tɛrra, the International School of Alba White Truffle, and the Giacomo Morra museum inside the Roddi Municipal Castle, with inaugural toast offered by Strada del Barolo and grandi vini di Langa.

– Saturday, October 31^st and Sunday, November 1^st from 11.00am to 6.00pm: open day. The school will be open to all, free of charge, to be visited and get information.

– Saturday, October 31^st, 6.00pm: at the International Fair of the White Truffle, in the Beppe Fenoglio hall, in Alba, show cooking of the chef Giovanni Naviglia from the FoodLab Academy.

– Every weekend in November – Saturday and Sunday – two cooking sessions with practical lessons lasting about two hours, from 11.00 am to 1.00pm and from 6.00pm to 8pm.

It will be a new challenge for the Roddi Castle, but also for the whole territory of Langhe and Roero, which will have, in the Truffle Cooking School a new tourist attraction and a precious service for the operators.

«It’s an important day for Roddi, because finally we can finish a project that has gone on for years and, at the same time, lay the foundations for the future of the castle. The new activity of the International Truffle Cooking School represents the contribution that our municipality can give to the local tourism, with a modern approach that respects tradition, in a unique and enchanting location. A good start to begin drawing attention to our castle and think quickly to its total recovery and restoration.» Roberto Giacosa, mayor of Roddi.

«The Barolo & Castles Foundation is working for the development and networking of the most significant castles of Langhe and Roero. After more than five years of activities of the Wine Museum in Barolo and the management of the Castle of Serralunga d’Alba, thanks to the synergy with the museum centre of the Piedmont Region, we are adding to Roddi, with the International School of Alba White Truffle, a fundamental element for the promotion and tourist accommodation of the whole territory. Thanks to the expertise and professionalism of Turin FoodLab Academy and followed, during this journey, by a professional as the chef Luciano Tona, Roddi will soon become a landmark for the entire area and beyond.» Tino Cornaglia, chairman of the Barolo & Castles Foundation.

«We really believe in the project tɛrra, because it allows us to share the experience gained in ten years of teaching, relationships and professionalism. We are enthusiastic about the idea of ​​building the contents of a new reality in the area of ​​Langhe, treasure for the Italian cuisine, with a huge potential as pioneer and a rooted tradition with great possibilities of evolution. In tɛrra, we see the possibility of doing business involving professionals with whom we have been working for a long time and with whom we want to continue to grow ideas and visions.» Chef John Naviglia and Alessandra Pollifroni, FoodLab Torino.

For info:
tɛrra

Ph. +39 011 3118125
Mob. +39 393 9522887, Alessandra Pollifroni, FoodLab managing director and coordinator
info@terra.academy – www.terra.academy

Barolo & Castles Foundation
Ph. +39 0173 386697 – www.barolofoundation.it

Roddi Municipal Castle
www.castellodiroddi.it