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21.12.2015

TAKE 1 ITALIAN CHRISTMAS PANETTONE AND PANDORO CAKES POPULAR WORLDWIDE

France, Germany and the United Kingdom have long enjoyed panettone, pandoro, chocolate and other Made in Italy specialities, while the USA has only discovered them more recently but has already been conquered, with a leap in net sales of 45%.

This is all thanks to Italian creativity in combining tradition and innovation, while also adding a dash of appealing originality... Read more 

TAKE 2 THE WHITE OLIVE WAS USED FOR SACRED CEREMONIES AND AN UNUSUAL KIND OF CHRISTMAS TREE

As olives progressively ripen, they normally turn from green to black-purple. Yet Nature, even for olives, often holds surprises in store. The Leucocarpa olive variety, for instance, which turns from green to white… Read more

 TAKE 3 2016 - INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LEGUMES

All legumes, from chickpeas to lentils and beans, will be 'star-foods' in 2016. The FAO has decreed that 2016 will be the International Year of Legumes... Read more 

TAKE 4 100% ITALIAN "DENOMINATION OF ORIGIN" SNACK IDEAS

A sandwich with a few fine slices of PDO San Daniele cured ham PGI Recco flatbread. Italian snacks now boast "denomination of origin"... Read more 

TAKE 5 THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET IS FIVE YEARS OLD

Not very much meat or dairy produce but plenty of fruit, vegetables, cereals and extra virgin olive oil. This is the secret underlying the Mediterranean Diet - that five years ago (on 15 November 2010) was recognised as an Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

In truth, the "birthday" of the Mediterranean diet goes back to 1945, when a married couple named Keys stayed in Salerno ... Ancel Keys was thunderstruck by the Italian diet, the starting point for a series of studies that resulted in a famous publication: Seven countries: a multivariate analysis of death and coronary heart disease which precisely described the virtues of the Mediterranean diet... Read more