by Ayfer Selamoğlu
For nearly 300 years, a voice has been heard in Venice’s pastel-coloured, narrow streets: “Let’s go to Florian!”. This magical cloud of invitation passes through narrow, pastel-coloured streets with Renaissance patterns, bridges that dance around the city and reaches the swan gondolas. It invites everyone to a magical world…
The fresco from the excavations of Pompeii proved once again that Italians ate pizza 2000 years ago… The fresco appears to depict a round focaccia surrounded by various fruits on a silver platter, including pomegranates and perhaps dates.
by Alessandro Romano
We want to experience the ancient history of the Aperitif and its journey from ancient Rome to the present. We take our glasses and go on a trip in history with Hippocrates, Carpano, Martini, Ramazzotti and Campari…
Being Italian: We look forward to it in the late afternoon, usually between 6 and 8 pm, after work, or on weekends. What are we talking about?
The government, determined to protect the “Made in Italy” brand, also took action on livestock and public health in this context. The bill of government, which prepared the bill to ban the production and marketing of synthetic food, including artificial meat, was presented to the Senate, which envisages different fines and prison sentences for those who promote “anorexia and blumiya” eating disorders on social media.
I Baci Perugina “Love and Passion” in collaboration with Dolce&Gabbana. Nestlé announces in a note that “the collaboration with Dolce&Gabbana also continues for Valentine’s Day 2023, continuing to pay homage to Italian excellence in the world.”
The alarm on wine, an attack on Made in Italy. The European Commission has reserved it for wine, with the green light for Ireland to use alarmist labels on bottles that warn of the danger to consumer health.
the oldest among the sweets of Siena and the one the city is proud of is the panforte. A history spanning more than eight hundred years.
The scent of Christmas is everywhere: our city is ready for Christmas; Our roads are ready; Our houses are ready; Our Christmas tree is ready; Our gifts for children are ready; Our soul is ready; We look forward to a new year with new hopes … Time to sit down and celebrate Christmas. But there’s a problem! Are we celebrating at Christmas Eve dinner or Christmas lunch?
Italian researchers have made a discovery that extends the life of pasta. The research makes it possible to extend the shelf life of industrial fresh pasta between 30 and 90 days.
Italian table: Plate of the day
by Assunta
Today we prepare together a really easy, and delicious dish perfect for any occasion. Eggplant rolls with smoked provola and cooked ham.
Italian Table – Plate of the day: Spaghetti alla milanese (‘A la milanisa)
by Assunta
Spaghetti alla Milanese is a dish famous for its flavor. But it also has another reputation: It deceives at first glance.
by Ayfer Selamoğlu
I am in the fairytale town of Taormina, which is postcard beautiful in Sicily. I want to explore the mountain village, which is among the places where the movie “The Godfather” was shot, which is at the top of my list of “classic films and immortal directors”. For this, I have to go to Savoca (Sicilian: Sàvuca), a medieval town of Mesina. From Taormina, I am participating in the day tour “Il Padrino-The Godfather-Father”.
Italian table:
Carbonara, one of the symbol dishes of Roman cuisine, is celebrated every year as Carbonara day in Italy and all over the world on April 6th. And 90 percent of us Italians consume a plate of Carbonara today. Adding our red wine and our friends who make up our big family…
Italian Table
Rome, center of culture, art and history, won the first prize in the kitchenz too. Tripadvisor and tourists have traveled all over the world and have chosen the cuisine of the immortal city …
Born in Perugia, Luisa Spagnoli created chocolate, which is an international brand today, exactly 100 years ago. A century later, Baci Perugiana, a product of love, celebrates its birth anniversary with another Italian legendary brand, Dolce & Gabbana.
Italian espresso coffee is prepared by UNESCO to be an intangible heritage of humanity. After years of initiatives, signature campaigns and bureaucratic procedures, “espresso coffee”, one of the most important symbols of Italian culture in the world of culture, social life and literature from Venice to Naples, has been nominated for UNESCO.
Today, the symbol of the immortal city Rome, represents an epic stop on walks through the center of the city. Numerous pages and poems have been devoted to this space. Many writers, philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians have contributed to making Caffè Greco an excellent literary cafe.
In Sicilia, a Palermo e dintorni, quando il cenone della viglia e il pranzo di Natale erano ormai conclusi, amici e parenti che si recavano in visita a casa degli uni o degli altri, portavano spesso come dono da condividere i buccellati o come si chiamano in dialetto, i cucciddata.
Anyone who has seen Julia Robert’s film “Eat, Pray and Love” will remember that enchanting scene in which she puts pizza in her mouth. Antonio Condurro, the head of Neapolitan pizzerias, the last of 13 children of Michele, founder of the pizzeria of the same name, in Forcella, in the heart of the historic center of Naples, where this scene was filmed, passed away.
Il Natale è il periodo più magico dell’anno in Sardegna come ovunque. Tradizionalmente è considerata l’occasione perfetta per consolidare i legami familiari passati e presenti. Il Natale infatti è il simbolo della convivialità e del ritrovo degli affetti. Le tradizioni gastronomiche, le cerimonie religiose, i rituali celebrati in questo periodo rendono l’atmosfera speciale.
When truffles are mentioned, a dazzling magic aroma, a perfect taste, natural aphrodisiac comes to mind. The origin of the rare plant of nature, hidden under the ground, goes back to ancient times.
Sweet, gorgeous, greedy and aphrodisiac. The intense taste of coffee, the delicacy of mascarpone and the smell of biscuits come together in Tiramisu, one of the most famous desserts in the world.