The garden is the first place Mauro Colagreco looks to for culinary inspiration. “I grew up with the flavours of the garden,” the Italian Argentinian chef-owner of three-Michelin-starred restaurant Mirazur tells me over a Zoom call from France. He shares that as a kid, he spent many a holiday at the La Plata home of his grandparents, who had immigrated to Argentina from Italy and for whom seasonal ingredients from the Mediterranean were at the heart of their cooking. They grew in their garden a variety of herbs, vegetables and fruits, including tomatoes, that his nonna—Italian for “grandmother”—would use to whip up simple yet
