On Sunday July 1 Spain will go head to head with Italy for the big battle. But I’m not talking about sport. As the giants kick off for the Euro 2012 football final rising star Omar Allibhoy, 28, from Tapas Revolution will try a cook-off against Italian chef Antonio Carluccio in his Wimbledon kitchen.
While watching the game on TV Allibhoy plans to prepare Spanish football food including mussels, escabeche - fried vegetables with vinegar - and chorizo tortilla, while our Italian giant wants to take him on by making Italian spinach balls - polpettine spinaci – soft pork scratchings known as batzoa and funghi impanati e fritti – fried porcini mushrooms in breadcrumbs.
The chefs have decided to keep it friendly, though - there isn’t a judge and there won’t be an official winner - so we’ll let the sportsmen decide.