Old World Italian
“One of my favourite things to do is just be in the market, be at the butcher’s and hear what the people are saying. What they’re buying. How they’re cooking it. Observing,” says Thorisson. “You really have to be here and all the experiences felt by living here. I like things to grow organically as well. I needed to be here. I needed to meet the right people, and have coincidences and meet people by chance.
On the day we spoke, Thorisson had just visited her friends at Magazzino 52, a restaurant and wine shop down the street from her family’s apartment in Turin. Head chef Dario Rista contributed his recipe for spaghettoni with bagna cauda, and she hand-delivered a copy of the book in thanks.