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Armando Manni, the Italian filmmaker who founded MANNI in 2001, takes food very seriously. What started as a personal mission to create the best organic extra-virgin olive oil turned into a 20-year-long endeavor to produce the best premium organic extra-virgin olive oil on the market. And his commitment to quality has paid off. Manni’s products are...

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The autumn fruit and vegetable centrifuges are a perfect way to continue to enjoy the summer atmosphere even during autumn. These drinks are a great way to go soft from summer to autumn thanks to their typical colors: red, green and orange that radiate joy and a widespread feeling of well-being. At the same time, they are a valuable aid in the wint...

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The Olive is present in Eighteen out of Twenty regions in Italy. There are at least 400 cultivars growing in Italy. In Italy we eat according to the Region and Season. Regional Olive Varietals compliment the food.  Around this time of the year we buy our yearly consumption from a nearby farm. We also buy smaller bottles of extra virgin olive oil f...

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The 2021 tomato processing campaign in Italy closed with a production of just over 6 million tons of processed product, up 17% compared to 2020. A very important result as it makes Italy the second largest producer of canned tomatoes in the world after the United States, and well ahead of China. In Central and Southern Italy, 2.96 million tons of t...

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The olive tree has always been — and remains to be — a prominent and notable figure associated with typical Italian life. Any trip to Italy will delight you with bottles of its purest olive oil, finest olive wood kitchenware, and tastiest dishes that highlight one of the country’s most famous commodities. There is now a family-run business in the C...

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In Italian culture, since ancient Rome, legume have taken on an essential role in human dieting, in fact ancient Romans enjoyed very often legume soups among which were fava beans, lentils and lupin beans. Still today, legumes are protagonists of great classics of Italian tradition, such as Naples’ pasta e fagioli (pasta with beans), risi and bisi...

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The Italian Minister of Agriculture, Stefano Patuanelli, has recently signed the agreement between the Italian government and Amazon for the protection of Italian food products on the e-commerce site. The aim of the agreement is to strengthen the protection, promotion, enhancement, and information of Italian PDO and PGI F&B products towards consume...

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Even during the hardest times, there is something that never changes in Italy: we have plenty of pasta in the larder: it’s cheap, versatile, and makes everyone happy. When the country went into lockdown for the first time, in March 2020, pasta was the first product, followed by flour, bottled water and, of course, toilet paper, to fly off supermark...

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The whole Puglia and the Salento are often remembered by passing tourists, as well as from regular visitors for its natural beauty, the sea, the long beaches and the olive groves. The olive tree, like the vine, is one of the most anciently known plants in Puglia, in fact many authors attest that since ancient times the region produces more olive oi...

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Today we will learn about the production stages of Extra Virgin Olive Oil, the techniques and the process for its production, having Italian Tradition given you a little introduction about its main characteristics and nutritional properties just last week. Stage 1: olive harvest The chemical and compositional features of the olive change sensibly d...

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