Month: June 2015

Che mondo sarebbe senza Nutella? or A world without Italy?

Categories Carlo Petrini, Culture, Dolce Vita, Food, Made in Italy, Slow Food, Uncategorized, Vinitaly, WineLeave a Comment on Che mondo sarebbe senza Nutella? or A world without Italy?

When we were children, there was an ad: Che mondo sarebbe senza Nutella? Would it be a world worth living in? I guess the question I want to ask, along with the fabulous planners of the Italian Pavilion at Expo, is: Is that even conceivable? A visit to the Milan Expo - which, by the…

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Writing About Wine… Since 1300!!!

Categories Barolo, Culture, Dolce Vita, Food, Made in Italy, Piedmont, Rolli Palaces, Slow Food, Uncategorized, WineLeave a Comment on Writing About Wine… Since 1300!!!

Sunday was the big Cantine Aperte event: throughout Italy, vineyards opened their doors to the curious and the thirsty, and explained their production to the masses. For those of us who were urban-bound, events like the presentation of a reprint of Arnaldo da Villanova's Trattato sui vini: Liber de vinis delighted the mind and the…

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