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12 Mar 2014 Interview to Lidia Bastianich: from chef to TV star at Junior Masterchef Italia

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Traveling around Italy, traveling around America. Reconnecting with the many links of the privileged connection between these two countries, through the medium of food. This could be one way of describing the life of Lidia Bastianich.

After a successful career as a restaurateur and chef (her restaurants are Felidia, Becco, Del Posto, Esca, Lidia’s at Kansas City and Pittsburgh, and she is also a partner in Eataly, New York), Lidia became a TV star with her cookery show, ‘Lidia’s Italy’, traveling around the 20 regions of Italy discovering authentic Italian cuisine as well as many Italian locations and traditions.

10 Mar 2014 Eataly – traditional Italian cuisine all over the world

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Eataly is an original market model offering craft products from the Italian agri-food tradition that aims to educate the consumer’s perception of quality.

The inventor of the Eataly format is Italian Oscar Farinetti who, after opening his first sales outlet in Turin in 2007, has since opened another 25 in Italy, Japan, Turkey and the United States.

26 Feb 2014 Etna Vignerons: Mick Hucknall’s winemaking estate in Sicily

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Wine is one of Italy’s most authoritative ambassadors around the world.

Through taste, touch and smell, wine transmits the beauty and harmony of the territory in which it was produced. Like music. It is no coincidence that many internationally famous singers – Peter Gabriel, Sting, Mick Hucknall and Jim Kerr, to name just a few – have chosen to make wine in Italy, looking for the authenticity that only direct contact with nature and tradition can provide.

21 Feb 2014 Pasta with pesto sauce: a homemade recipe

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Last month we proposed an Italian cooking classic: pizza. Today, however, we want to introduce another traditional Italian meal, which is typical of the Ligurian region but has by now become a true and real strong suit of the entire Italian cooking culture: fresh pasta with pesto sauce.

17 Feb 2014 Italian coffee in luxury villas: an espresso way of living

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Coffee, or the simple act of sitting around a table chatting over a cup of a pure Italian coffee brew, is an integral part of Italian culture just like wine or the famous Mediterranean cuisine.

Coffee is an essential ingredient of almost every Italian social congregation. The rich Italian coffee tradition is well demonstrated by the region's wide assortment of coffee brews such as cappuccino, macchiato, espresso, and lungo among others.