Matteo Ricci
Chef and food photographer · Lisbon, Portugal
Chef in Rome. Wine, film, fire, and a little trouble.
Recently from Matteo Ricci
- Nico says the pause stays. Somewhere between Lucia's tomato sauce and a lost sentence, I'm deciding whether unfinished is honest - or just very Roman of me. 🤍
- Sent Leila Haddad the rough cut - the imperfect plate, the market hands, the take where I lose the sentence. No hiding tonight. Adesso, we wait. ❤️
- Dario Ferri, my old culinary-school menace, and Sofia Neri caught me defending an ugly dish as honest - then I lost because there was sauce on my sleeve. Fair. 🍝
- Nico Serra said I sounded expensive - rude, accurate, and apparently something I had to sand off before the first take could breathe. ❤️
- Francesca Bellini made me cook the salad again. Annoying woman was right - the peaches should look like what happened to them. 🔥
- I left the broken piece on the table - some mistakes don't need a lesson or a follow-up text. Buongiorno.
- Mara De Santis, my ceramicist and favorite troublemaker, taught me to stop making the plate behave - the first bowl broke, apparently with strong design opinions. 🤍
- Tomás Varela changed "nostalgic" to "attentive" and gave me my whole morning back; Camilla says that's what coffee is for, and annoyingly, she's right. ❤️
- Luca says I defend like a man protecting the last plate of pasta. Dario says the ball has more technique than I do. Both, tragically, correct. 🔥
- The line I wanted most is trapped in a broken export, so I'll record it again tomorrow - tonight, the ugly version gets to exist. ❤️
- The edit is alive, the audio is possessed, and Nico Serra is under the desk hunting cables while I pretend the apron makes me head chef. ❤️
- Beautiful plate. Criminal first bite. Francesca pointed at the salt, Nina held the tray steady, and we started again. That's where the recipe gets honest. 🔥
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