Alessandra Fasce is the winner of the sixth edition of the Genoa Pesto World Championship. The World Champion 2016 is 36 years old, lives in Genoa, and she is an assistant cook .
Alessandra passed the first selection (from 100 competitors to 10 finalists) and then won against the other nine finalists.
The other finalists are Alda Bernardelli, Petra Bianchi, Paolo Brovia, Davide Cocco, Massimiliano Cresta, Maria Gazzo, Enrica Monzani, Cinzia Scaramuzzino and Giovanni Baghino.
Nine of them are Genovese and one comes from the region of Veneto.
Genoa Pesto World Championship is an extraordinary event in an atmosphere of joy and participation, with more than 3,000 people, including competitors, judges and International guests.
Genoa Pesto World Championship is an extraordinary event in an atmosphere of joy and participation, accompanied by the journalist Federico Quaranta voice of Radio 2 show Decanter and habitual guest at La Prova del Cuoco with Antonella Clerici. Important international presence, the countries represented were: United States, Great Britain, France, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Northern Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Popular Republic of Togo, Czech Republic, Bulgary, Albany, Sri Lanka and Philippines.
The competitor coming from further arrived from New Zealand, the closest from via dei Macelli di Soziglia, an alley in the Genoa historical center.
Also the jury was an international one thanks to the presence of gastronome experts coming from France, Germany and Spain. The jury evaluated the 100 mortar made Pesto prepared in the morning and they chose the winner among the 10 finalists Pesto prepared in the afternoon.
Here the Sixth Pesto Championship Photo Gallery
The ranking of the 100 competitors by group
Finalists
- Alessandra Fasce
- Alda Bernardelli
- Giovanni Baghino
- Massimiliano Cresta
- Enrica Monzani
- Paolo Brovia
- Maria Gazzo
- Petra Bianchi
- Davide Cocco
- Cinzia Scaramuzzino
Group 1
- Alda Bernardelli
- Massimo Biale
- Catherine Estur Aquino
- Martina Ueberschaar
- Eugenio Torre
- Paolo Pizzorno
- Luca Bernava
- Maura Turchi
- Filly Cusenza
- Margarethe Vikan Saebo
Group 2
- Petra Bianchi
- Alessandro Rao
- Federico Bonzi
- Giovanni Chiavarino
- Hugh Thompson
- Kodjo Tossoukpe
- Ubaldo Emilio Borchi
- Mauro Tasso
- Romina Serena Brazzi
- Domenico Sartori
Group 3
- Paolo Brovia
- Emilio Fontana
- Marco Pedemonte
- Domenico Capone
- Bruno Canepa
- Evangelina Stamatova
- Riccardo Bruzzone
- Simone Zizza
- Davide Molinari
- Francesco Sbrana
Group 4
- Massimiliano Cresta
- Simone Vajani
- Lia Antonella De Biasio
- Paolo Tommaso Valentino
- Mariagrazia Casale
- Nadagèes Prè
- Mario Cicalese
- Maria Jesus Salvador
- Bettina Mettica
- Francesco Lovisatti
Group 5
- Davide Cocco
- Alberto Imparato
- Carlo Girgenti
- Gia Battista De Scalzi
- Diane Mackey
- Daniela Dau
- Gaspare Gabriele
- Martina Tosetti
- Daniela Vassallo
- Yolanda Lopez De Ipiña Samaniego
Group 6
- Alessandra Fasce
- Gianfranca Siano
- Paolo Cantatore
- Candida Grosso
- Michele Vesan
- Cinzia Donati
- Hiroshi Ishiguro
- Giacomo Delbalzo
- Marco Garbini
- Ratnasingam Kohularamanan
Group 7
- Maria Gazzo
- Enzo Silvestri
- Pietro Cimino
- Igor Holub
- Agim Bregu
- Iacopo Manca
- Ilenia Erbì
- Paolo Alitta
- Roberto Manno
- Margherita Donetti
Group 8
- Enrica Monzani
- Mauro Olcese
- Rossella Campice
- Livia Merlo
- Fabrizio Migliorini
- Emilia Demartini
- Aksel Bergskaug
- Simone Bertolini
- Dominic Bishop
- Grazia Garlando
Group 9
- Cinzia Scaramuzzino
- Luca Pavletic
- Carolina Beeler
- Adriana Mottini
- Vincenzo De Francesco
- Sabrina Lazzari
- Angelo Bondioli
- Marisol Arregui
- Daniela Bulleri
- Beatrice Michelis
Group 10
- Giovanni Baghino
- Roberto Mercati
- Massimo Tosetti
- Manuela Fioriolli
- Craig Wales
- Alessandro Zuccarino
- Fabrizio Siragusa
- Lyn Thompson
- Sergio Monaco
- Luca Ciaudano