Food

By Veronica Zin Gnocco Fritto is one of the most delicious dishes the Italian cuisine has to offer. It forms part of the Emilian tradition and it goes by a variety of names, since the recipes that define gnocco fritto differ depending on the city where it is created. All around the world, people think of pizza and pasta as a representation of Italy. In fact, there are two …

The Del Cambio restaurant, a true Turin temple of fine taste, has represented an important piece of the city's history since 1757 - and not only in a food and wine sense.

Its diverse dialectic names demonstrate it is a food which is widespread throughout the country. Evocative of ancient stories often intertwined with poverty; poor element of a gastronomic tradition built around the peasant table where a piece of cheese and a herring or “chained” polenta with beans and vegetables gave it flavor and made it magical.  Pulenta, polente, polenda, pulenda, pulenna, poenta, poulento, puluntu, pulienta, echtinga, carlon, fufu, porridge, …

Leading a consortium that’s unique in the world  The Consortium for the Protection of Grana Padano is a unique reality in the world: its brand represents 129 dairy producers and about 140 associates, for a total of 5 thousand stalls that produce milk, employing about 40 thousand workers in the entire sector. In terms of production, a vast and homogeneous area with a production of 34/35 million quintals of …

Bread and salami, a perfect pair, a childhood memory. A memory held by those who are no longer young but remember bread and salami as the perfect snack. Something richer than bread and olive oil, bread and butter or bread and gras pistà. At school, even in the city, there was always the classmate with the peasant relatives, the one who had good salami, the inevitable victim of an innocent …