Carlo Petrini

Countdown Vinitaly: Time to Detox!

Categories AIS Associazione Italiana Sommelier, Amarone, Barolo, Brunello di Montalcino, Campania, Carlo Petrini, Chianti, Culture, Dolce Vita, Donne del Vino, Food, Juicing, Lazio, Liguria, Made in Italy, Milan Expo, mineral water, Montefalco, Morellino di Scansano, Piedmont, Pollenzo, Primitivo di Manduria, Prosecco, Puglia, Rosé, Sagrantino, Sassicaia, Sicily, Siena, Tuscany, Umbria, Uncategorized, Veneto, Vinitaly, WineLeave a Comment on Countdown Vinitaly: Time to Detox!

Breaking with tradition: we are not going to talk about wine. This is the Lent period in preparation for Vinitaly: time to give things up, purify, detox, and get ready for the biggest wine event in Italy, held every year in Verona. This year, from Sunday, April 15 to Wednesday, April 18, tens of thousands…

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A Midsummer Night’s Wild Dream

Categories Barolo, Carlo Petrini, Culture, Dolce Vita, Food, Made in Italy, Music, Piedmont, Slow Food, Uncategorized, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Vinitaly, Wine1 Comment on A Midsummer Night’s Wild Dream

Collisioni - that's what this mega-festival in the tiny hamlet of Barolo is called. And collide you do! With people, with ideas, with tastes, with energy. Talk about bringing things together. I'd heard about Collisioni for years. I'd viewed their over-stuffed programs with skepticism: how could they lure Elton John, Sting, Mark Knopfler to this…

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Great Italian Wine You Can Bank On!

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For those of you who don't know it, the University of Gastronomical Sciences in Pollenzo was the world’s first university entirely dedicated to the science of Food & Wine, promoting a new, ecologically sustainable, quality-based standard that also focuses on what is right and just for producers. Founded on an idea from guru Carlo Petrini,…

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Expo Exposé

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"You did it! You did it! You said that you would do it, and indeed you did!" as they sing in My Fair Lady. The doubts were many, skepticism abounded. The challenges were remarkable, and yet... the Milan Expo 2015 was a success. Come on, it was! Millions of people visited, the message of 'Feed the Planet'…

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

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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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A University with Taste

Categories Barolo, Carlo Petrini, Culture, Dolce Vita, Food, Made in Italy, Piedmont, Pollenzo, Slow Food, Uncategorized, WineLeave a Comment on A University with Taste

I finally made it to Pollenzo the other day,to the famous Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche, a.k.a. l'Università del Gusto (Taste University)! What better pilgrimage to prepare for today, May 1st and the opening of the Expo in  Milan dedicated to the theme of Feeding the Planet (more about that in a future post!) I toured…

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