Brazilian gastronomy is crying. Gastronomic journalist Ricardo Castilho died this Tuesday morning, the 18th, in São Paulo. Editorial director and one of many founders of the journal Desk Pleasuresa publication of nice significance to the gastronomy section within the nation, he was 59 years outdated and suffered an acute myocardial infarction.
Castilho started his skilled profession in 1985, as a press officer for the Social Solidarity Fund. After that, he joined Editor Abril, the place he labored as a reporter and editor for the journal Playboy. It was throughout this era that he started to report on gastronomy and entered the world of wine, which was a terrific ardour of his (with the Palmeiras facet, by the way in which). The journalist was a member of the Alentejo wine brothers, Dão and Porto, in Portugal, in addition to a gentleman of the Champagne brotherhood, in France.
In 2003, he created the Desk Pleasures, of which he was a accomplice collectively together with his spouse, Claudia Esquilante, and the couple Mariella Lazaretti and Georges Schnyder. He was additionally one of many creators of the Mundo Mesa platform, which held a number of gastronomic occasions, together with conferences and cooking courses, from the north to the south of Brazil. The biggest of them, Semana Mesa São Paulo, delivered to Brazil a few of the most vital cooks on this planet, such because the Spaniards Ferran Adrià and Quique Dacosta, the French Michel Bras, in addition to the Peruvians Gastón Acurio, Virgilio Martínez and Pia lion.
He was famend for his competence, skilled ethics and generosity, and he demonstrated quite a few skills within the nationwide gastronomy, in addition to bringing to gentle quite a lot of skilled producers. Beloved by his colleagues, he had a eager humorousness and was a terrific storyteller. Castilho is survived by his spouse, Claudia Esquilante, and his youngsters, Ricardo Júnior, Carolina and João Paulo.