The gorgonzola and passion fruit dessert, which Alena Doletskaya criticized in an interview with journalist Nikolai Solodnikov, has been in St. It is on the menu of the Duo gastrobar in St. Petersburg and will remain there despite the negative reviews. Former editor-in-chief of Vogue. This was reported to socialbites.ca by chief Dmitry Blinov, owner of Duo.
“Dessert has been on the menu since day one, nine plus years. No Doletskaya can change that,” said Dmitry Blinov.
He said that “50-60 thousand of these sweets” were sold in the 9 years the restaurant was founded. According to him, an average of 1,000-1,200 sweet dishes are ordered from gorgonzola cheese and passion fruit during the summer months.
Dmitry Blinov added that a “kind of cult” has formed around the dessert, because in 2014 it had to be removed from the printed menu due to sanctions on the supply of cheese from abroad.
“For three years it was not on the menu on paper, but no less was ordered. We even made a kind of cult out of it – a secret dessert that can only be learned from another person, ”said the chef.
He concluded that Alena Doletskaya did not watch the interview with Nikolai Solodnikov because she was “not very enthusiastic” and that for a person who understands the concept of gastrobar, the question of compatibility of gorgonzola and passion fruit will not arise.
Doletskaya’s criticism of the gorgonzola and passion fruit dessert became the basis of numerous memes on social networks. After the journalist said that “gorgonzola can’t be next to passion fruit” because “gorgonzola kills all life”, Twitter dismissed the statement as a manifestation of the highest degree of snobbery.
In particular, the picture of passion fruit and gorgonzola on the social network and “Get it, we can’t be together. You kill every living thing.”
They joke there too: “Sorry, I know you like me, but you’re a passion fruit and I’m a gorgonzola, nothing will come of it.”