It’s not the first cookbook written by Luigi Pomata, but surely it’s the first one that tells his story from every possible angle. The king of tuna (as he’s usually called) has given and taken a lot from his motherland: Sardinia. He’s taken the local traditions, the most unique products, the house recipes, and from them he’s managed to build a menu that presents different ingredients, and goes from past to present, from less elaborated dishes to truly avant-guarde creations. There’s nothing specific that can define him, not even tuna or cous cous, because Luigi Pomata is all these ingredients put together: he has the creativity of a farmer (his grandfather), the audacity of a restaurant owner (his father) and the foresight of a chef (himself), that keeps portraying the past to the future generations; those ones that will be lucky enough to taste his 25-years-aged tuna.
From a very young age he starts working at Da Nicolo, the family restaurant in Carloforte, Sardinia. After culinary school he leaves the island and starts travelling throughout Italy and abroad, working side by side with Sirio Maccioni in New York and Marco Pierre White in London. However, meanwhile, he always dreams about opening his restaurant in his motherland, which he eventually does. His many locations signed Luigi Pomata are places made of smells, aromas and local products. In 2003 he represented Italy at the Bocuse D’Or, he won the first prize at the world cous cous festival and took part in several tv programmes, such as La Prova del Cuoco and La cucina del Gambero Rosso. La mia storia in un piatto is his first book with Trenta Editore.