{"id":378,"date":"2025-10-01T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baluna.katakoscreativo.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:57","slug":"announcing-florida-top-3-gelato-artisans-who-will-represent-the-usa-at-the-2025-north-american-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/announcing-florida-top-3-gelato-artisans-who-will-represent-the-usa-at-the-2025-north-american-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Florida top 3 Gelato Artisans who will represent the usa at the 2025 North American semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span dir=\"auto\">First place: Carlotta Orrico of Delicious in Weston with the flavor \u201cDelizioso\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span dir=\"auto\">Second place: Brenno Floriano of San Lorenzo Gelato in Miami with the flavor \u201cSan<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Lorenzo\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span dir=\"auto\">Third place: Rafael Ramsa of Aubi &amp; Ramsa in Miami with the flavor \u201cDeconstructed ABC\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"auto\">The three gelato artisans will go on to the next step of the Gelato Festival World Masters, the world championship in search of the best gelato flavors on the 5 continents.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Miami Lakes (Florida), 13th December 2024 \u2013 Gelato Festival World Masters, the main category tournament with partners Carpigiani and Sigep \u2013 Italian Exhibition Group, is on its new journey around the globe searching for the world&#8217;s best gelato. The fifth North American stop of 2024 was held in Miami Lakes on December 10 where 17 gelato chefs took part in the sweetest competition of the year hosted at Baluna, Carpigiani distributor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The winning chefs and the best gelato artisans in Florida for 2024 are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"auto\">First place:<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Carlotta Orrico of Delicious in Weston with the flavor \u201cDelizioso\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Description: Lemon gelato with Grandma&#8217;s Cake and white chocolate<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"auto\">Second place:<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Brenno Floriano of San Lorenzo Gelato in Miami with the flavor \u201cSan Lorenzo\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Description: ricotta rosemary gelato infused with honey and pinenuts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"auto\">Third place:<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Rafael Ramsa of Aubi &amp; Ramsa in Miami with the flavor \u201cDeconstructed ABC\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Description: Amaretto, Irish cream &amp; cognac gelato with amaretto cookies and cognac caramel swirl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The selected gelato artisans will go on to the North America Semifinals of Gelato Festival World Masters scheduled for 2025. Flavor, structure, creativity and presentation are the four parameters used for the evaluation, highlighting the choice of ingredients, the craftsmanship in elaborating the recipe and the visual impact of the gelato (see below the full list of participants).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"auto\">The jury was composed of:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Graziano Sbroggio, Owner of Graspa Group<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Daniel Figueredo, Owner and Chef of Sanguich<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Matthieu Cartron, Owner and Chef of La Croquantine de Matthieu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Samuel Gorenstein, Owner and Chef of Abbale<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Gelato Festival debuted in Florence in 2010, inspired by the creation of the first gelato recipe by the versatile architect Bernardo Buontalenti in 1559. Since then, the event has expanded its borders, first to the rest of Italy, then to Europe and \u2013 starting in 2017 \u2013 the United States, with a total of 80 Festivals held, before embracing the entire planet with the world championship of Gelato Festival World Masters 2021, which concluded in December 2021 \u2013 with the victory of Adam Fazekas from Budapest \u2013 and saw a record of 3,500 gelato artisans judged by international juries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">LIST OF PARTICIPATING FLAVORS:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">WINNERS First place<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Carlotta Orrico of Delicious in Weston with the flavor \u201cDelizioso\u201d Second place<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Brenno Floriano of San Lorenzo Gelato in Miami with the flavor \u201cSan Lorenzo\u201d Third place<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Rafael Ramsa of Aubi &amp; Ramsa in Miami with the flavor \u201cDeconstructed ABC\u201d List of the other participants:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Lucas Rodriguez of Narbona in Coconout Grove with the flavor \u201cThe Narbona Special\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Augustin Jimenez of Quore Gelato in Miami Beach with the flavor \u201cCheesestacchio Yuzu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Dream\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Maria Victoria Ianni of Pi\u00f9 Argentinian Ice Cream in Davie with the flavor \u201cArroz con<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Milk\u00bb;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Daniela Lince of Ola Gelato in Hialeah Gardens with the flavor \u201cUraba\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Eric Dorval of V Gelato &amp; Caf\u00e9 in Miami with the flavor \u201cStrawberry Shortcake\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Gustavo Cabrera of Paco Gelato in Miami Beach with the flavor \u201cFlavorfull Fusion\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Pierina Christoffel of Alma Mia in Doral with the flavor \u201cSamba\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Antonio Carroza of Latteria Italiana in Miami with the flavor \u201cAmarantine\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Denise Hotze of Paradise Beach Gelato in Miami with the flavor \u201cEggnog\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 David Lopez Frances of The Frances Gelato in Miami with the flavor \u201cNocciola con<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Chocolate\u00bb;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Miguel Lopez of Naranja Pi\u00f1a Gelato in Miami with the flavor \u201cChocolate\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Natalie Yepes of Dolci Peccati in Miami with the flavor \u201cSunset Sweet Corn\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Jesus de la Pena of Paradice Gelato in Miami with the flavor \u201cRoasted Pumpkin\u201d;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u2022 Brando Quilli of Vaniglia e Cioccolato in Pembroke Pines with the flavor \u201cPassione Scura\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First place: Carlotta Orrico of Delicious in Weston with the flavor \u201cDelizioso\u201d Second place: Brenno Floriano of San Lorenzo Gelato in Miami with the flavor \u201cSan Lorenzo\u201d Third place: Rafael Ramsa of Aubi &amp; Ramsa in Miami with the flavor \u201cDeconstructed ABC\u201d The three gelato artisans will go on to the next step of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baluna.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}