The chef Paola Florencia Carosella is an Argentine naturalized Brazilian and granddaughter of Italian immigrants, well known in Brazil for the TV show “Masterchef Brasil”. Also a businesswoman, writer and youtuber, the Italian-Argentine woman based in Brazil is successful in all her initiatives.
The surname Carosella is derived from the family name Caroselli, which in turn comes from a nickname linked to the activity of the parent of the family. In central and southern Italy, the lots of wheat collected by farmers were in the past called carousels.
Furthermore, this term indicated a kind of knights' tournament with skill exercises. This spectacular form of play included a wooden platform that rotated or a clay ball that was thrown between players.
It is worth remembering that in Argentina, as well as in Brazil, there are several cases in which the original Italian surname ended up being modified, even involuntarily, at the time of registration in registry. In this way, they ended up being “Brazilianized” or, in this case, “Argentinized”, passing from Caroselli to Carosella.
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Popularity
The surname Caroselli is specific to the Italian area that includes the provinces of L'Aquila, Roma e Isernia. In Italy there is the Carosello variant, but it is very rare, occurring in the regions of Campania, Abruzzo and Puglia.
The Caroselli surname has around 220 families in Italy, according to the website Cognomix. The places where this surname is most popular are the regions of Lazio (122 families), Abruzzo (23) and Molise (13).
The Caroselli family name is 1750th most popular in the Molise region, 609th in the province of Isernia and 30th in popularity in the city of Faeto, in the province of Foglia, Pugia region.
Paola Carosella's career
Paola Florencia Carosella was born in Buenos Aires on October 30, 1972, in a family of Italian immigrants. Photographer's daughter Roberto Carosella and the lawyer Irma Polverari, she lived in Morón, a city 17 kilometers away from the capital Buenos Aires, in a poor neighborhood, close to her paternal grandparents.
When her parents separated, she was 3 years old and ended up living with her mother in a apartment in Buenos Aires, bought with money given by his grandfather to his mother.
The parents' relationship was quite troubled, largely due to the mental health problems his father experienced, who was manic-depressive and ended up committing suicide in 2000.
difficult childhood
In one of her interviews, Paola said that after her parents separated, she only saw her father once, three years after the separation, when he was already admitted to a hospital. psychiatric hospital.
She also said that for her paternal grandfather, a Italian immigrant crude and pro-Mussolini. Having a mentally ill child was considered a shame. Because of this, her mother ended up resenting her in-laws, who had the financial means to help, but ended up neglecting to do so.
In turn, Paola Carosella's mother tried to take care of her husband and daughter as best she could. And the relationship between Paola and her mother It was also difficult, as Irma Polverari was very controlling and demanding of her daughter.
To complete the picture of Paola's difficult childhood, she witnessed three suicide attempts mother, having to help her, when she was still a child. Finally, Irma Polverari was found dead in her swimming pool, aged 47, in 1999, a year before Paola's ex-husband and father committed suicide.
Home in the kitchen
On the other hand, Paola also has good memories of her youth in Argentina, among a family of Italian immigrants which preserved the tradition of women who still planted, harvested and they cooked intensely.
She says she grew up in the garden and orchard, surrounded by chickens and rabbits. If Lino's maternal grandfather was a great fisherman and hunter, so the house always had frogs, snails, river and sea fish, hares, wild pigs, wild boars, pigeons and quails.
“All kinds of animals, which ended up in the pan after hours of cleaning: we removed the feathers, the mud, millions of thorns, we opened the shells, we separated the muscles from the bones and skin. The kitchen has always been and continues to be my favorite place in the house, from all over the world”, declared Paola Carosella.
She also said that both her grandmother Maria, her father's mother, and her grandmother Mimi, her mother's mother, cooked very well, always using fresh ingredients from your own backyard.
Paola Carosella around the world
After finishing high school in Argentina, Paola Carosella began working in restaurants de Buenos Aires.
In the Argentine capital, she worked with chefs Paul Azema and Francis mallmann and then went on to other experiences around the world. In Paris he worked at Le Grand Vefour, Le Celadon and Le Bristol. In the United States, he worked in California, at Zuni Café. He also worked in Los Negros (Uruguay), in 1884 in (Mendoza, Argentina), in Patagonia Sur (Buenos Aires) and at Patagonia West (New York), among other locations.
Paola Carosella in São Paulo
In 2001, she was invited to move to São Paulo to open and manage the restaurant's kitchen. Rubaiyat Fig Tree, alongside Francis Mallmann and Belarmino Fernandes Iglesias.
In 2003, she opened the restaurant Julia Kitchen and in 2008 he launched Arturito, a restaurant dedicated to simple cuisine. In 2014, Paola opened La Guapa Empanadas Artesanais e Café with her partner Benny Goldenberg, a café with empanadas and artisanal latin sweets.
Success on TV and in bookstores
Still in 2014, Paola Carosella started working as a judge on the TV show MasterChef Brazil, alongside the Brazilian Henrique Fogaça and from French Eric Jacquin, together with journalist and presenter Ana Paula Padrão.
In 2016, she released her first book, a mix of autobiography and recipe collection, called Every Friday. In 2019, the C side, a project for his own TV show, was shelved by the Band channel. In May 2020, she debuted by presenting her cooking series on YouTube, the Our Kitchen.
In January 2021, Paola Carosella announced her departure from Masterchef Brasil to focus on private projects, and hired a video producer to reformulate her YouTube channel.
Paola Carosella and philanthropy
Paola Carosella volunteered in 2015 to cook at Fernão Dias State School, in São Paulo, at the time occupied by students protesting a proposed reorganization of the State government.
She coordinates and supports the humanitarian project Cozinha & Voz, carried out in partnership with the Public Ministry of Labor (MPT) and the International Labor Organization (ILO). The project trains people in the area of gastronomy who are constantly excluded from the job market.
In June 2019, she cooked with a Syrian refugee at Too Tasty, online channel of the website BuzzFeed. The idea was promoted by the UN Agency (United Nations) for Refugees (UNHCR) to celebrate World Refugee Day, on June 20.
In October 2019, Paola Carosella made her books available for donation to the project Tinder of Books. In the same month, he participated in the Amigoh project, from Albert Einstein Israeli Hospital.
In March 2020, Paola Carosella joined the Mocotó restaurant, commanded by chef Rodrigo Oliveira, the hotel Fasano, chef Luca Gozzani and independent food producers to help produce and distribute free lunch boxes in Vila Medeiros, in São Paulo, amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
In 2020 she announced a partnership with NGO For A Smile, by Felipe Rossi, and the creation of a new project with the International Labor Organization and the Public Ministry of Labor to distribute thousand lunchboxes per day.
In 2021, Paola Carosella participated in the preparation of the charity dinner for the maintenance of the People's house, in São Paulo, and to publicize the work of local farmers from Parelheiros and the FUA (Agroecological Fund).
Paola Carosella has a daughter, Francesca Carosella, born in São Paulo in 2011. Between 2013 and 2021 she was in a relationship with the Irish photographer Jason Lowe.
