Food editor and chief restaurant critic of Austria’s Der Standard, Corti is also a recent addition to FOUR Germany’s panel of contributors. He regularly contributes to German food magazine Falstaff and the Sunday edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine. In his distant past Corti co-founded and worked as a self-taught chef at what was the Vienna’s most prominent French restaurant, The Grill Room. In 2009 he founded the Slow Food Guide to Austria’s Regional Cuisines.
Bite SizedQuestions
What has been your mostmemorable dining experience?
Eating fried giant larvae in a Taiwanese restaurant – and loving it!
Is there anything you wouldnevertry?
Human flesh.
What’s your favourite comfort food?
Toasted dark bread, salted butter, cantabrian anchovies and hard cheese, some crunchy vegetables if at hand.
If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Toasted dark bread, salted butter, cantabrian anchovies and hard cheese, some crunchy vegetables if at hand.
After a long week, what’s your tipple of choice?
A white from the Loire valley
What are the three finer things in life that you secretly indulge in?
Lemon sorbet and monkey gin; Côte d’or dark with pistacchios; Ham and eggs with HP sauce and tabasco.
Describe yourself in three foodie words…
Butter, always butter!
