Tradition for fresh handmade pasta is the most distinctive element of Bolognese food culture. The “sfogline” are numerous, always women, even amateurs or professionals. Moreover, the Bolognese has formed his own palate on one or two types of fresh pasta, the one of his mother or grandmothers, that will be always for him an unsurpassed […]
“Drogheria” is probably an unknown word for younger people. It means grocery stores and, in Bologna, it is a synonymous of the quintessence of “the fat city”. This addresses, by the way, will represent a small ancient world and a precise taking of position towards the contemporaneity, not only aesthetics, but also ethic too, as […]
Custodians of the rich alimentary traditions of the city these shops are the ancient “salsamenterie”, places of manipulation once where things were not only resold but meats were tanned and cheeses stayed here aging for long months. Among the select ones, we know for sure that one, although of recent opening, it recalls to this […]
What about fruits and vegetables in the Milanese supermarket? You can have clean and well-decorated lanes, well-chosen promotions and very polite cashiers, but just a mildly musty orange and it’s over. Not by chance, the main brands are taking care of these spaces with more care and attention than in the past (even the discounters): […]
Quality without compromise is the “diktat” for these cozy oenogastronomic cult locations. That is to say, the supply of different selected traditional products and the selling of colonial and ethnic goods, coming from everywhere… These shops may be called in many different ways: grocery stores, delicatessen or take aways, but what they have in common […]
In the sea are swimming over 25 thousand edible kinds of fish, but in our dishes no more than twenty. Varying fishes is a good habit at first because of the taste that, without any doubts, it earns. The less famous fishes are good then the others, often and gladly they also cost less and […]
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 […]