At 35, Alessio Bax is a rising star in classical music. A pianist, he?s also obsessed with food, and his multicourse New York dinner parties are epic, featuring dishes like pasta with Santa Barbara sea urchin, crostini with foie gras, and slow-roasted, bone-in rib-eye. We spoke with Mr. Bax, who was born in Italy and now lives in Harlem with his wife and fellow pianist, Lucille Chung, about his childhood eating habits and post-show cravings.
On an Apulian dish he longs for ?Fave e cicoria. It?s fava beans, pur?ed, with bitter greens. We make that here at home. That one really brings me back to my childhood. Not only eating it, but just the smell of the fava boiling.?
On his bottomless stomach ?When my mother was feeding me as a kid, she had to use two spoons. Because by the time she would put a spoon down, I would start crying for more food. I?ve been told that I used to open the oven and get food from the oven. And that was very dangerous.?
On a meal he can?t forget ?If I have to single out a really memorable experience, it was probably a Kyoto-style meal in Japan ? two of them, actually, in Tokyo. It was fantastic. What I liked was that it was about subtlety. It was all about matsutake mushrooms. They were in season. The first thing I could think about is music, where you really have to go deep inside it to know it.?
What he?s thinking about on concert day ?I have visions sometimes at intermission of having a nice wine and steak. I?m like, ?Oh, that?s going to be great.? ?
This interview has been condensed and edited.
Source: http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/at-a-performance-dreaming-of-dinner/
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