Five Questions With: Ralph Schelling
"They have a restaurant in Hotel della Posta that has excellent wines and super good mountain food"
Five Questions With is an on-going series where we discover unique wine and cultural recommendations from incredible people. This week we’re sitting down with chef Ralph Schelling, one of the defining figures of the new Swiss cuisine. Young yet experienced, Ralph combines various culinary traditions and techniques with the best local and seasonal products.
Do you have a bottle recommendation for a wine from the Alps?
My friend Sylvan Müller is doing a sparkling wine out of Uva Americana. It’s dry but you feel the flavor of the fruits. Also the Completer at Schloss Reichenau
Is there a food recipe from the Alps that you especially love?
Pizzoccheri
If you could visit any town in the Alps for a holiday, where would you go?
Montespluga, Italy, close by to Switzerland to the border. They have a restaurant in Hotel della Posta that has excellent wines and super good mountain food. I don't know if you could say Torino is the Alps but I'm a big fan of Torino. If I go, maybe I meet up with my friend Mimi Thorisson.
Clockwise from top left: Schloss Reichenau; Montespluga; Ralph and Mimi at Gamper (https://www.instagram.com/oddthor); Hotel della Posta
Do you prefer hiking or skiing?
Skiing
What is a piece of art (painting, book, music, movie etc) that best expresses the Alps for you?
The film “Reise der Hoffnung” (“Journey of Hope”). It’s about migrants moving over the border to Switzerland and is a very heartbreaking, beautiful movie.
Stay in touch with Ralph via his Instagram. To hear more about Ralph’s cooking , check out our previous interview with him below.
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J.M.W. Turner and the Alps
I first encountered Turner’s Alps, oddly enough, by way of the sea. It was in the fall of 2019, at the Mystic Seaport Museum’s exhibition J.M.W. Turner: Watercolors from Tate, which drew from the thousands of Turner works bequeathed to the British nation upon the artist’s death in 1851. As one of history’s most renowned maritime painters, Turner was only the most fitting of subjects for the New England seaside town, and the museum, seemingly knowing what they had, squeezed in as much of Turner’s output as possible.