The Pesto World Champion comes back to Genoa
Federico Ferro is the winner of the third World Pesto Championship just ended in Sala del Maggior Consiglio at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.
He’s 41 from Genoa and he is a chemist in Sestri Levante, he has participated with the old family mortar “pushed by his great passion for the cuisine”. In a hall perfumed by basil he has received the Golden Pestle as winner by the journalist Bruno Pizzul, the unforgettable Italian sports voice.
The second one, is the Basco competitor Inaki Royo Garmendia, the third the youngest Alex Ravaioni, a student from the Istituto Alberghiero G.Casini in La Spezia. Gian Maria Valle, a doctor, among the affectionates and the friends of the Championship since the first edition, is arrived fourth. The others, in order of arrival, are Luigi Guelfo, Guido Frosi, Sergio Rocca, Ciro Mennella, Andrea Cogorno and Patrizia Cicala. Congratulation to the Marvellous 10, the best “pesto” in the world!
Here the chart of the hundred competitors divided in to their belonging groups:
group 1 – competitors from #1 to #10
1. Andrea Cogorno
2. Cinzia Pennestri
3. Giovanni Badini
4. Domenico Capone
5. Bruno Canepa
6. Marta Fuselli
7. Alessandro Rombo
8. Christian Guastamacchia
9. Alda Maria De Prati
10. Fabiana Del Nero
group 2 – competitors from #11 to #20
1. Luigi Guelfo
2. Valentina Canepa
3. Angelo Vanagolli
4. Kanapathy Pushpananthan
5. Carlo Franzini Tibaldeo
6. Giuliano Caraffa
7. Enzo Cannata’
8. Mauro Elsi
9. Francesco Salvietti
10. Anna Golinelli
group 3 – competitors from #21 to #30
1. Federico Ferro
2. Maurizio Tavella
3. Paolo Brovia
4. Silvano Ferrari
5. Federico Olimpo
6. Luca Bernava
7. Luca Costigliolo
8. Marco Chiaverini
9. Melanie Beskin
10. Dorotea Barattini
group 4 – competitors from #31 to #40
1. Gianmaria Valle
2. Luciana Frisone
3. Roberto Ciccarelli
4. Donatella Ivaldi
5. Elisabetta Poggi
6. Marino Copetti
7. Roberta Calderone
8. Michele Vesan
9. Maurizio Cassani
10. Karoline Schano
group 5 – competitors from #41 to #50
1. Guido Frosi
2. Roberto Rossi
3. Iñigo Castro Saenz
4. Marina Gandolfo
5. Isabella Brunetti
6. Giulia Pellegri
7. Caterina Pecoraro
8. Petra Bianchi
9. Cinzia Donati
10. Francesco Abbadessa
group 6 – competitors from #51 to # 60
1. Ciro Mennella
2. Eleonora Canessa
3. Fabio Rotta
4. Cristina Bertoli
5. Ferdinando Cozzolino
6. Paola Cevasco
7. Giuliano La Piana
8. Henrik Ljørring
9. Loredana Paterno’
10. Andrea Luria
group 7 – competitors from #61 to #70
1. Iñaki Rojo Garmendia
2. Maria Livia Merlo
3. Cristiano Murena
4. Daniela Giordani
5. Giancarlo Marabotti
6. Daniela Bulleri
7. Santa Panucci
8. Brunella Marrocu
9. Rossana Ravera Valle
10. Angela Cordioni
group 8 – competitors from #71 to #80
1. Sergio Rocca
2. Alessio Morrone
3. Grazia Borghetti
4. Natalina Ferrari
5. Daniela Vassallo
6. Angelo Bondioli
7. Paola Elisabetta Cereda
8. Romano Calvillo
9. Sergio Monaco
10. Mirco Tranchida
group 9 – competitors from #. 81 to # 90
1. Patrizia Cicala
2. Antonio Anchinico
3. Albina Deiana
4. Bettina Mettica
5. Mika Morimoto
6. Roberto Mercati
7. Roberto De Micheli
8. Saveria Firullo
9. Simona Barbieri
10. Simona Cosenza
group 10 – competitors from #91 to #100
1. Alex Ravaioni
2. Mauro Canepa
3. Alfonsina Trucco
4. Miriam Kisilevsky
5. Caterina Rissotto
6. Elisabetta Ruboni
7. Giovanni Baghino
8. Domenico Sartori
9. Claudio Guarnieri
10. Milvio Pesaresi
The eminent 2010 Championship jury was composed by: Marica Amador, Mario Anfossi, Moreno Babbini, Alfredo Barbini, Bruno Bini, Gianni Bottino, Gianni Bruzzone, Gloria Carbone, Sergio Carozzi, Maurizio Daccà, Beppe De Simone, Andrea Della Gatta, John Dikie, Anna Galleano, Andrea Garelli, Mario Lalli, Marina Malvezzi, Franco Melis, Milena Palattella, Maurizio Pescari, Giovanna Rosi, Alessio Rossi, Enrico Sala, Marco Secondo, Umberto Solferino, Aldo Tedesco, Pierluigi Togni, Pietro Uslengo and Paolo Zerbini.
The Third World Pesto Championship, a contest at the last pestle but ,above all, a feast day for everyone.
