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With Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, Turin and Piedmont become great harvesters of cultures from all over the world that show their regional food and wine specialities   “Through food, the Piedmont region has fostered encounters and interaction between cultures from all over the world. After all, when you come to Piedmont, you immediately feel attrac...

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Brought to Sicily by the Arabs, the wondrous sesame seed is still cultivated by hand today, and with great effort, in Ispica, a town close to the southernmost part of the island. The guardians of its future are two brothers who are undeniably fond of those sunburnt fields.  Arranging a time to chat with the Gambuzza family is almost impossible: the...

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The International Slow Food Movement was founded in 1986 by Carlo Petrini, political activist, journalist, author and publisher, as a protest against the newly-opened McDonald’s near Rome’s elegant Piazza di Spagna, the first fast food restaurant in Italy. Today the International Slow Food Movement boasts millions of members from more than 1,500 co...

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Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, gastronome and sociologist, as well as one of the most authoritative International voices when it comes to food and not only, told WineNews in a face to face interview about wine, “the history of the last half century has been the history of the “Renaissance” of Italian wine, and how one of our most important ag...

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Have you ever heard the term “slow food“? Well no, it is not a nutritionist’s advice, but it has to do with the production and the rhythms of the past, with the slow consumption of food that should be savored, not devoured. We are talking about genuine foods cooked with care and dedication, foods capable of giving authentic flavors and taking us ba...

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