Stars out for Italy

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There is also a dinner matching Italian wines with Chinese cuisine at the Hilton's Chynna restaurant Friday evening at 7 pm.

The name of chef Tano Simonato's acclaimed restaurant "Tano passami l'olio" in Milan means "Tano, pass me the olive oil". A champion of healthy Italian high cuisine, Simonato has more than 40 different extra virgin olive oils to dress his repertoire of dishes. From Wednesday to Friday, he will offer a five-course set menu at Barolo in the Ritz-Carlton Beijing. It includes red chard marinated dried codfish with sweet garlic mayonnaise, langoustines and red prawns cooked in lemon consomme, and stripped lamb rack with honey on cocoa.

Other Beijing-area events feature chef Raffaele Ros at Fiorentina in Beijing, and chefs Nicola Cavallaro and Nicola Paparini at Bella Vista in Tianjin.

A trio of master guest chefs will be in Changhsha, Hunan province, for a series of events at the St. Regis hotel there. Paolo Gramaglia (Pompeii restaurant in Naples) and Enrico Gerli (I Castagni in Vigevano) will present their takes on their regional cuisine at a "Michelin-starred night" on Friday and a gala dinner on Saturday. On Sunday, the chefs go to work on a Sunday brunch spread, while acrobatic pizza master Pasqualino Barbasso shows his stuff. Barbasso returns on Monday, for a 10 am kids' pizza cooking class and acrobatic pizza shows that evening in the hotel's restaurant and bar.

Chefs Gramaglia and Gerli move on to Shanghai on Monday, for master classes, a lunch that promises to be a wine-and-food tour of Italy, and a wine reception. That night, the stage is given to master guest chef Heinz Beck of La Pergola at the Waldorf-Astoria in Rome, who will stage a charity dinner. Beck's La Pergola restaurant is the only three-Michelin-starred restaurant represented at the China events. All Shanghai events are at the Hagrid Society Coffee & Treats.

Contact the writer at michaelpeters@chinadaily.com.cn