BUSINESS
COOKING WITH FIRE by Mattia Busuttil
Mattia Busuttil is usually known for his work in the igaming sector as Head of Rest of World at PressEnter Group, but when he’s not in the office, you can find him tucked away in a townhouse in Sliema, utilising every ounce of outside space for his cooking and growing his own produce.
Mattia is a self-taught home chef, with his passion and love lying in cooking with fire. Mattia cooks with fire not only for the immersive flavours smoke bestows upon the carefully chosen ingredients, but to also bring his family and friends together with the oldest cooking technique in the world. Fire. “Asado means the social gathering of friends and family around food; it literally brings you back to the simple reality of enjoying good food and good company.“ Although it may seem complicated, when you’re in good company, the hours spent tending to smoke and flame to create the perfect balance of flavours just simply pass by…
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Alongside his professional life, Mattia enjoys the sourcing of local produce, turning his homegrown vegetables and herbs into all sorts of concoctions, pickles, roasts, infusions and more. You can’t help but feel welcomed by Mattia when he's cooking on the Asado; there’s free flowing wine, the smell of food slowly smoking and cooking over an open flame, and always a garden full of hungry friends and family. Mattia is a busy professional with hands in many pies, working in the iGaming industry, music events and marketing consultancy. But most of all, he is a selftaught, Asado loving, local producepromoting home cook. We hope you enjoy what he cooked up for us a few weeks ago…
