Category: Food curiosity

Wine is a story of love and passion, embracing humanity and spanning millennia of history. Over the centuries, it has played a part in tales of love and friendship, has been the protagonist of cultures and peoples, has inspired poets, artists, and scientists, becoming a shared cultural heritage. The history of wine is lost in…

Writing about wine is an arduous task. Hundreds of books exist in all languages regarding its history, development, and the climatic indications that can be gleaned from the discovery of paintings, writings, and objects related to winemaking throughout the various millennia of human history. And it is for this reason that we will divide this…

All traditional dishes have a history, but among the most curious and debated is certainly that relating to pasta carbonara. What is its origin? Was it really born in Rome?There is no original recipe, but a recipe that has undergone transformations over time up to the Roman “DOP” one and to which there is no…

Porchetta is undoubtedly one of the most delicious foods in the gastronomic tradition of central Italy (Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo, Lazio). The rich taste, the soft consistency of the meat, the crunchy rind, the different spices, awaken in us ancestral memories that are lost in the mists of time.  In literature we find it in…

Pasta is the main food for most Italians, perhaps the one that best identifies Italianness in the world. Many believe that the origin is Chinese, but in reality the history of pasta begins in more remote times, dating back, as some say, to around 7000 years ago, or when man began to abandon the nomadic…