Delicious eats for hardcore workers: our chef’s recipes, tailor-made for everyday survival.
Paola is Blossom’s chef. Every day, she whips up lunch for the entire agency: 70 hungry folks, sometimes frantic, often in a rush. Individuals who hold different roles, each with their own quirks and needs. That’s why Paola has crafted ad hoc survival menus for each team in the agency.
Today, let’s dive into the first six.
Creative Menu
Cream of “Beauty” with purple kale, potatoes and fresh cheese
Best enjoyed before the next brief
Inspiration can strike at any moment, even during lunchtime. That’s why the perfect dish for our Art Directors is colorful, harmonious and imaginative. Because artists observe, get inspired, seek muses. And then at lunch, they love to clear their minds, and clean their plates!
Properties: rich in vitamins and antioxidants, with an aesthetically pleasing appearance to stimulate creativity.
Strategy Menu
Blend of Valerian salad, cashews; concassé tomatoes; broccoli flatbread; broccoli cream; kale chips.
Towards the goal
If digestion is the target, the correct funnel must be built. That’s why the strategist menu is modular and never gets cold. The first bite? Only after careful data collection and insight.
Properties: low glycemic index with a good amount of antioxidants and cruciferous vegetables that stimulate digestion and detox the liver. Complement with a protein addition (such as fish).
Copywriter Menu
Black and white: Venus rice, feta, and yogurt
Delitious
A perfectly executed dish. Because when things are meticulously done, they work in black and white too. Shame about that damn typo… it’s made the copy go down the wrong way!
Properties: high-fiber content. Whole grains increase the sense of satiety, facilitate intestinal functionality, and reduce the absorption of fats and “bad” cholesterol.
Finance Menu
2 large ravioli, 2 sardines, 4 spears of asparagus, ¼ sweet and sour onion
Calculated consumption
It doesn’t matter what the chef budgeted for the menu. When they sit at the table, the finance team counts everything. And if the balance at the end of the meal is positive, they might even ask for seconds.
Properties: nutritional completeness and easy digestibility, ideal for avoiding afternoon slumps and keeping attention spans high all day long. The presence of oily fish raises the OMEGA index for a clear and calculating mind.
Social Media Manager Menu
Avocado slices and valerian lettuce, raspberries and cashews, endive and poppy seeds, peppers and thyme
Smartphood
In one hand, lunch, in the other, their phone. Because food is the most Instagrammable thing there is. And because in the life of a social media manager, notifications never sleep. Never!
Properties: convenient and quick meals, easy to plate, eat, and digest. Ideal for lunch breaks “on the run.”
Media House Menu
Sandwich with feta and raw and cooked spinach. Baked polenta chips. Yogurt mousse with maple syrup and chocolate puffed rice.
Long live the picnic basket
And there you have it… Directors, cameramen, and producers, if it’s not take-away, they don’t call it lunch.
Properties: a great compromise between taste and nutritional completeness. With a good portion of fiber and a proper intake of protein, low levels of sugar and saturated fat.
Recipes created by chef Paola in collaboration with her brother, Carlo Spagnuolo, nutritionist biologist and expert in plant-based diets.
To taste them, stop by to visit!
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Article: Federica Mosca
Illustrations: Daniela Lucherini