A 'supertomato' created by Italian scientists is the perfect food for helping keep cancer at bay, the head of the World Foundation of Urology said on Tuesday. Launching Prostate Cancer Week in Italy, Mauro Dimitri said the 'supertomato' created...
Pascolo Verde It S.r.l. , the green pasture, was born thanks to the gathering of subjects with different backgrounds, but with one element in common: the creation of a line...
A natural food that combines sweetness and its exclusive taste to important anti-bacterial and energetic qualities. We are talking about honey, a natural product that man has cultivated for centuries thanks to the bee...
Palermo, world capital of wine. The Brussels World Wine Fair organization and Italy decided to organize the 17th edition of this...
Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia announced on Tuesday that he had placed a consortium of producers which guarantees buffalo mozzarella quality under appointed administration because of its failure to ensure the traditional cheese's authenticity...
Conte Alambicco di Sicilia grappa distillates embody the spirit of Sicily, with its myths and history, burning with passion and the heat of the sun, and contain its seductive character...
The world's truffle-loving elite are gearing up for what looks set to be a nail-biting bidding war on Saturday when a giant white truffle goes under the hammer at an international auction. Weighing in at 900 grammes, the truffle is not a record breaker...
Can eating a meal on a beautiful naked woman be considered a form of art? In Japan it has been practiced throughout the centuries and probably the lovers of the naked sushi...
Almost one Italian out of two is obese or overweight. This is the alarming result emerged during the fifth annual congress on “Food and health” that took place in Rome today, organized by Repubblica and Somedia. Professionals like doctors...
Real Naples-style pizza on Wednesday received a European Union quality seal protecting it from imitations. The EU's quality...
The connection between Bacchus and Eros has been one of most discussed and criticized topics in the history of humanity. Everyone has talked about it in different ways: from the most ignorant to the most cultured, from Leonardo da Vinci to...
A new white wine by Barone di Villagrande will soon arrive. It is called “Legno di Conzo”, a Carricante with a unique purity, after four...
A baroque taste. But not the usual one. When you see it, you immediately understand, white, simple but you can already taste its intense and creamy flavour. Its scent, with its promises to be kept, fascinates. Just one teaspoon makes you wonder and...
An intense fragrance, that evokes all the colours and influences of Sicily. Just like different cultures merge, the ingredients of the Trapani pesto make up the tastes of the island. As it usually happens in Sicily, this sauce was imported and then revised...
by Stefania Brusca
In 2008 an average of 56 million pizzas a week outside the home (some 3 billion a year) have been eaten in Italy. The data, which was...
A sunny day, a cold beer and a roll with panelle. You can buy them from a street-seller or at a shop, and while the taste of the chickpea flour melds with parsley and spices you can look towards the sea. Or maybe go for a walk in the old town centre...
by Stefania Brusca
They sprout from one day to the next, without warning, they cover the woods making gourmets happy. Wood mushrooms, flap mushrooms, chantarelles, morels, blushers, these are just some of the names of the...
Did you know that in 1700 giving a lady chestnuts as a gift candied in sugar syrup (marron glacés) could have had a mischievous meaning? As for other fruits, even chestnuts hide aphrodisiac effects and the story is very old if we think that the Greeks...
Aubergines arrived in Sicily in the XIII century thanks to Arab merchants, but their...
The caviar of the Mediterranean Sea, an ancient taste that brings...
The green gold of Bronte. A sweet, delicate taste, a unique emerald-green colour...
Ingredients for 4 people: 400 g. rice 300 g. sausages 1 carrot 1 onion 50 g. butter 3 tomatoes ½ glass of red wine Preparation: Remove the sausage from its...
Fry the garlic with some olive oil. Add some amberjack, tuna or sword fish with some capers and black olives. Mix with a fork and season with black...
Ingredients: 600 g. duck breast, 10 shallots, 1 pink grapefruit, 2 oranges, 3 spoons of aromatic vinegar, half glass of dry white wine, 2 bay leaves, thyme, oil...
Fry in a pan some cloves of garlic with extra virgin olive oil. Add some cherry tomatoes cut in halves and olives stuffed with anchovies and cut into slices...
Ingredients for 4 people: 1 kg. potatoes, 1 clove of garlic, parsley, 2 eggs, bread crumbs, olive oil, salt and pepper. Preparation: Boil the potatoes, peel...
Ingredients: 600 g. milk; 200 g. buckwheat; 150 g. flour; one cube of yeast; 120 g. butter; three eggs; smoked tuna...
Ingredients for 6 people: * 1 turbot, 2 Kg. * 250 g. lentils * 50 g. bacon * 40 g. butter * 2 shallots * 1 glass of dry white wine * 25 cl fish stock * 1 glass...
Ingredients: 250 g. coconut flour 100 g. rice flour 250 g. sugar 50 g. butter 3 eggs Preparation: Melt the butter in a bain-marie, then add the sugar, the...
Ingredients: 2 large eggplants, 200 g. ham, 1 packet of sliced cheese, 2 eggs, bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Preparation: Rinse the eggplants, cut them into slices 5-centimetres-thick and place them in...
Ingredients for 4 people: 2 chicken breasts 2 spoons of honey 200 ml. liquid cream Butter Pepper Salt Preparation: Cut the chicken into slices or into....
Ingredients for 4 people: 3 eggs, 3 small whole yogurts (better the creamy Greek one), 40 g. sugar, 1 cup of Marsala. Preparation: Beat the yolks with...
Ingredients for 4 people: 1 kg. organic cauliflower, 4 organic potatoes, 100 g. natural olives, 300 g. sausages, water, 3 cloves of garlic, 2-3 spoons of...
Ingredients for 4 people: 8 artichokes 1 clove of garlic Parsley Vegetables stock 3 spoons of extra virgin oil Salt Half lemon juice Preparation: Clean...
Ingredients for 4 people: 1 kg mussels, 400 g. rice, 3 onions, 6 tomatoes, 50 g. grated pecorino cheese, 1 clove of garlic, some parsley, celery...
Ingredients: 1 kg sesame, 600 g. honey, 300 g. sugar, 250 g. toasted almonds, orange peel. Preparation: Melt the honey in a pan with the sugar...
Ingredients for 4 people: 400 g. pasta, 4 medium zucchini, 300 g. unshelled shrimps, 7-8 small tomatoes, white wine, garlic, extra virgin oil, red...
Ingredients: 25 courgette flowers, white flour, 4 eggs, extra virgin olive oil, salt Preparation: Pour the zucchini flowers into the eggs with the flour. If you...
Ingredients: 350 g. rice 2 small glasses of vodka 150 g. smoked salmon Chives Liquid cream Stock Butter Salt White pepper...
Ingredients for 6 people: 1 dose of short crust pastry; 10 madeleines (Proust’s famous biscuits) or 6 sponge fingers; sugar; butter; flour; 600 g. plums...
Ingredients for 4 people: 200 g. carrots, 200 g. unpeeled almonds, 200 g. malt, 175 wholemeal flour, 80 g. apples, 60 g. raisins, 3 spoons maize...
Ingredients for four people: 2 chicken breasts 2 spoons of honey 200 ml. liquid cream 3 spoons of aromatic vinegar 1 knob of butter Pepper Salt ....
Ingredients for 4 people: 4 cups of rice; 400 g. pumpkin; 500 g. mushrooms (freed are also good); ½ onion; oil; salt; black pepper; 3 tea spoons of...
Ingredients for 6 people: 400 g. ricotta, 1 candied fruit (the one you prefer); 70 g. of dark chocolate; 2 egg whites; 100 g. icing sugar. Ingredients for the...
Ingredients for 6 people: 650 g. flour; 35 g. yeast; 1200 g. ripen tomatoes; 250 g. mozzarella; 1 potato; 2 spoons oil; garlic; parsley; pepper; salt...
Ingredients for 4 people: 2 Williams pears (around 300 g. in total); 1 orange; 1 stick of cinnamon; 200 g. chocolate ice-cream; 60 g. sugar; cream...
Ingredients for 4 people: 1 chicken breast (ask the butcher to slice it for you); 1 or 2 cloves of garlic; fresh or dry marjoram or parsley; 1 spoon or more...
Ingredients for 4 people: 400 g. tagliatelle; 4 artichokes; 1 clove of garlic; 1 lemon; 5 spoons of olive oil; 40 g. butter; 1 spoon of mint; 1 spoon of...
Ingredients for the sfogliatelle with ricotta (4 people) For the pastry: 400 g. bran; 50 g. butter; salt; oil For the filling: 500 g. ricotta; 100 g. sugar...
In only 39 years of life, the beautiful Lucrezia Borgia had three husbands, an uncountable number of lovers, eight legitimate children and one born outside...