The National Chestnut Fair of Cuneo, that for four whole days will fill the historic town centre of this provincial capital with the tastes, smells and colours of the hundreds of exhibitors from all over Piedmont, and beyond.
To accompany these purely gastronomic delights, the organisers have prepared some touristic events, cultural-scientific initiatives and entertainment […]

The National Park of the Valgrande Valley was founded in 1992. It extends in the heart of the Verbano Cusio Ossola province, just 100 Km away from Milan. It is the largest wild area of Italy, with a parched and scarcely reachable territory, a unique valley where endless woods, clear waters and undisputed silences walk […]

There are many ways to combine food and culture, above all in Italy!
The gourmet could even say that food and cooking is, in itself, culture and we absolutely agree with them, but today we are not talking about it in this sense.
Instead, we would like to talk to you about a “space” or “architecture” combination: […]

“Gusto Balsamico” (Aromatic Taste), the exhibition of “vinegars from all over the world and of the sweet-and-sour products” will take place in Modena, from 5th to 8th October 2007. The exhibition will be promoted by some important institutions of Modena, as the Chamber of Commerce, the Province and the municipality itself and it will be […]

Today we are taking the opportunity to bring to your attention a food-and-wine activity that comes from Marches, called “Italian-style mixed fry” because we want to talk to you about the town Ascoli Piceno and its environs. Ascoli is a border province, where the sober Apennine landscape alternates with the sea landscape of the Adriatic […]

Today we want to talk to you about the bottarga, a delicacy given to us by the sea and aknowledged by man, who was able to recognize and work it, starting from the first matter which this product comes from: the mullet’s eggs.
In fact, the bottarga is essentially made of thousands of eggs produced by […]

The sweet tradition from Umbria is bound to the medieval period. This tradition involves above all the filled and spiced sweets, as the different kinds of Panpepato (panpepato is a sweet made with bitter cocoa, plain chocolate, walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pine-seeds, raisins, honey, pepper and flour).
In particular today we would like to stop for a […]

The food (and wine) blog phenomenon has been strongly expanding for some years already in Italy. In fact, new blogs dealing with the Italian food-and-wine conoisseurship in its various aspects come out every day (you can find a properly up-dated list in the blog “Lo Spazio di Staximo”). The bloggers are both professionals in their […]

The piadina (or piada, for those ones who have known it for a long time) is a special kind of really tasty bread and even if it is a Romagna icon, it is known all over our peninsula.
The piadina ows its name to the board used to roll out the dough, whose name is exactly […]

Carasau bread is a local Sardinian bread, which was born in Barbagia in ancient times because shepherds needed to have a bread that lasted longer, without going bad during their movement with the flocks.
The traditional carasau has the shape of thin and crisp circular sheets of pastry and, because of its features, it also goes […]