Vania Ghedini, born in Ferrara in 1987, developed a deep love of cooking at a young age in her grandparents' bakery. After graduating from hotel management school and honing her culinary skills at ALMA, she embarked on a career that took her to many of the Alajmo family's restaurants. Today, she heads the kitchen at the one-Michelin-star Ristorante Oro at the Hotel Cipriani in Venice.
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Vania Ghedini was born in 1987 in Ferrara and spent her childhood among bread, fresh pasta and cakes at the bakery owned by her grandparents, where she discovered her love for cooking. After graduating from Hotel Management School, in 2006 she enrolled in the Advanced Course in Italian Cuisine at ALMA, where she perfected her culinary techniques, learnt to work with raw materials with respect and became familiar with Italy's gastronomic heritage.
After finishing her studies and her internship at Rigoletto di Reggiolo, and only after a parenthesis in France for the opening of an Italian restaurant, she returned to ALMA, this time as a teacher, where she stayed until 2015. Then, thanks to her experience as sous chef at Peck in Palazzo Italia during EXPO Milan, Vania was able to get closer to the concepts of historicity and tradition and understand the importance of protecting and passing them on through cooking.
At the beginning of 2016, Vania joined the Alajmo Group. After a few months in the brigade of Le Calandre, she spent a period at Grancaffè Quadri in Venice to learn more about the cuisine of the area and then took over AMO Venezia, inside the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, and led its kitchen until 2018.
In December of the same year, she followed the Alajmo family to Morocco to take charge of the opening of the Sesamo Restaurant inside one of the world's best hotels, the Royal Mansour Marrakech, where she remained until the end of 2023.
The Alajmo experience marked her profoundly in her thinking, in her way of conceiving cuisine as a game, downplaying its canons, playing with them between lightness and taste.
In April 2024, she returns to Venice as head chef of the one-Michelin-starred Oro Restaurant inside Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, Venice.
