The interest around enologic world is becoming everyday more florid. Questions such as by the glasses proposals and the maintenance of a certain freshness are crucial. Beside these topics, an important thing is that these wine shops must represents local products, combining with acumen and ratiocination, a right stock temperature and the constant and checked […]
Cheese was probably born for pure casualness. Some clever or illuminated shepherd, in an absolutely unspecified epoch of the prehistory, must have experienced that, in the stomach of the killed animals, after the feed, milk seems to be curdled, in the form of solid mass. Or maybe that intrudecing a sprig of fig tree or […]
Disused for decades, Vermouth is the modern nectar from the past, when also Italians used to aromatize their wines. Today, Vermouth is the father of any authentic aperitif, symbol of the first decades of the ‘900. It was born as digestive in 1786 to the distillery Marandazzo of Piazza Castello in Turin by the foresight […]
From 2001, year of publication on the official bulletin of the region, the “bicerìn” has been the Piedmontese traditional brew. The origin of the name, that means “small glass”, indicates a time, in eighteenth-century, when the bicerìn was drunk in the homonym bar as evolution of “bavareisa”, a brew constituted by coffee, chocolate, milk and […]
Turin worthy consecrates and legitimizes the fervency of some new tavernas, called eno-bistrot or caffè– restaurants, bringing a sign of well-defined new gastronomy and oenology. The innkeepers or, as you prefer, the hosts are old clients who have decided to jump on the other side of the bar.
Since its appearance in Europe, in the 15th century, cocoa has collected favourable outcomes, not only because of its universally recognized taste, but also for its appeal and for its exotic air of mistery, which made a legendary protagonist. During those times, chocolate had always been a prerogative for the few; it used to have […]
Turin’s coffee tradition transports in the Nineteenth-century. The aristocratic feeling evoking a season in which the city was, for a few years, the capital of whole Italy. Partly parlors of exponents of art and literature, partly centers of agitation and political propaganda, Turinese coffees have always practiced their intellectual activity […]