The winner of the “White Guide Global Gastronomy Award”, a kind of Nobel prize for gastronomy awarded every year in Stockholm, is the Italian chef Massimo Bottura.

The prize was awarded to Bottura on the same day in which the film director Paolo Sorrentino won the Oscar for “The Great Beauty”.

In 1995, Massimo Bottura opened the “Osteria La Francescana” in Modena (in the centre-north part of Italy), that obtained the third Michelin star in 2011; this is what can be read in the Michelin Guide about Bottura and his restaurant:

“Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important and you’ll capture it perfectly”

This is the quote which lifestyle photographer Ivana Lazzarini shares on “An Italian History”, her photography book which explores the vintage Italian style through pictures of old folkways.

Her secret? Get inspiration from the world around her. And she is so lucky to have such a beautiful world around her. We’re speaking about Italy, of course, with its amazing places, it’s people, it’s flavors and scents.

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.

Three rules of life to learn when you are traveling, in three very different locations: it sounds like the latest trend from one of the more glamorous travel agencies, instead it is “Eat Pray Love”, the movie directed by Ryan Murphy, starring Julia Roberts, recently released in movie theaters all over the world.