“I love facing children who are discovering new flavors. It’s also our job to introduce them to taste,” says Daniel Silvetti, head chef of the restaurant Lu Fran Calin. He is a regular at these discovery days, having worked in collaboration with the specialized school of Château for over 6 years, offering its students a morning full of flavors every year.
“This year, I wanted to please my godson, who is in the first grade at the Bischoffsheim school, so I organized a tasting in his class to introduce his classmates to the tastes and flavors of our products.” After hosting nearly 30 students with disabilities in the morning at his restaurant in Vieux Nice, he then headed to the school group located in the St Roch district.
“It was the first time I intervened in a classroom, and I must say I would gladly repeat the experience. The students were very attentive, and some even tried certain foods for the first time.” This former student of the Nice hotel school, raised in the Nissart cuisine by a skilled cook mother, has developed a passion for teaching taste in schools. An idea is even brewing in the mind of a chef who imagines occasionally trading his stove for a blackboard session.
At a time when taste and flavors seem to be lacking in school catering in Nice, Daniel highlights a more dangerous fad in fast food. “I always emphasize when talking about fast food that, in small doses, it’s no worse than any other excess, but the regularity of consumption is scientifically proven to be harmful. I want them to understand that a plate of gnocchi is much tastier and healthier than a hamburger.”
More than fifty little Niçois, therefore, had an encounter this Monday that their palates won’t soon forget.
