Gian Luca can’t wait to travel around Lithuania again: he remembered the most delicious pancakes he ever tasted in his life – AINA
The most beautiful Lithuanian farms, sincere people and an endless variety of tastes – that’s exactly the kind of food that TV3 show “” newcomers fell in love with last year, and that’s exactly the kind of food it’s returning to the big screens in the autumn season!
The past year has been a special one for host Gian Luca Demarco, and learning culinary secrets has helped even his earlier fears. What can we say about the special parodies of one farmer’s pancakes, which have become an inseparable secret of his family’s kitchen…
Gian Luca does not hide that he really missed television during the summer, because it gives even an adult the opportunity to play. This is proven by the entertaining trailer of the show, which is already pleasing the audience: https://bit.ly/3ToYvLS
The famous chef who filmed in it says that it is not easy to understand the Lithuanian language. However, sometimes this language inspires her to create new words, as, for example, the new word “sparkuliati” that made the host of the “Good Evening Show” Justinas Jankevičius laugh last year.
“While traveling around Lithuania, I heard a lot of different accents, different languages in Lithuanian. At first I didn’t understand anything in Dzūkija, and in Žemaitija, I needed a translator to communicate – I managed to understand something only when people agreed not to talk too much… (laughs).
But the funnest thing is that the team and I traveled a lot of Lithuania. This year, we will extend our travels with a new twist – we will cook even more great dishes and taste the most famous ones of each region ourselves!” – intrigues Gian Luca.
The well-known chef adds that traveling around Lithuania made him fall in love with the countryside, and he was especially impressed to see the relationships between people there. It also brought a lot of news to his life – if earlier Gian Luca called himself a “brake” when talking about pickled vegetables, all this experience on one farm is a long time.
“I even laughed out loud there, because they pickle everything – I wouldn’t be surprised if they pickled a person too!” (laughs) At first I felt afraid there, but everything was really interesting. “La maitas” helped me with a lot of such fears and proposed personal principles”, he admits and adds that in this way he got used to a lot of dishes liked by Lithuanians – even to bloody vedars.
And this is how the family left an impression on Gian Luca at the buckwheat farm – he would gladly return to it for the first time and with all his heart: “Since I haven’t eaten buckwheat for at least two weeks in a row, I already feel as if I’m not in Lithuania, I probably liked visiting the buckwheat farm the most on the farm. Laima, whom I met here, made special buckwheat pancakes for me – I think they were the tastiest I’ve ever tasted in my entire life. They really go above and beyond!”
Gian Luca always attributes buckwheat exclusively to Lithuania, but when he talks about the similarities between our country and its population, he admits that there are quite a lot of them, but Italians don’t always want to admit it, and Lithuanians don’t always want to notice it.
“The excessive use of meat is akin to both sides, and also both nations are truly ‘flourish.’ The dishes are different, but the principle is the same – we all really like flour dishes,” he says.
However, Gian Luca has some comments for Lithuanians – we do not use everything that we find in our abundant farms: “It seems to me that Lithuanians do not use their deciduous trees. For example, you use turnips but don’t use their leaves. And if you have zucchini, do not use their flowers, which have a fantastic use. I really hope that we will have the opportunity to show how to use all this and then people will try it themselves.”
Then, with this offer, Gian Luca is ready not only to challenge himself like last year – to drive a huge tractor for the first time, to try ice fishing or to hold a centipede, but also to surprise his most loyal viewers with his culinary adventures.
The show “La food” – from September 11, Sundays, 9:30 a.m. on TV3!