The guest of the eleventh Moontalk is Valentina Raffaelli, a versatile professional from Rovereto who has returned to her Trentino roots after years abroad. Trained as an architect and designer, she worked in Amsterdam on prestigious design and styling projects before discovering her passion for cooking. In 2015, she entered a Dutch restaurant and fell in love with it, choosing to leave design behind and dedicate herself to gastronomy.

But Valentina is not just an ordinary chef: her curiosity led her to explore food from a sustainable and cultural perspective. Together with her partner, illustrator Luca Boscardin, she traveled around Italy for a year to rediscover ancient culinary traditions, documenting "quinto quarto," the cuisine of recovery and reuse.

From this experience, the book Scarti d’Italia (published by Corraini Edizioni) was born, a project that celebrates sustainable cuisine and the fight against food waste. Valentina then turned her focus to the plant world, exploring vegetable biodiversity and creating recipes that highlight lesser-known ingredients. Today, she lives in Rovereto in a house called "Olga," where she organizes creative gatherings and workshops. With her second book, Insalate per un anno, she invites readers to rediscover "forgotten" vegetables and to experience cooking as an act of awareness and connection to the earth.

Valentina Raffaelli will be in conversation with artist and cultural activator Greta Marcolongo. The discussion will be in Italian.

Art, culture, design, creativity: these are the themes of Moontalks, curated by franzLAB, which take place at the Parkhotel Mondschein and feature internationally renowned guests from near and far.