How to match food and wine

Matching food and wine is a real art, dedicated to harmonize and bind the flavors r, enhancing both food and drink.
Any taste must not prevail over the other. Instead it must combine the elements: none of the features the acid, bitter, sweet, salty, greasy or spicy must to be overwhelming to the palate.

Extra virgin olive oil: the new frontiers of taste

Olive oil, a good all-Italian goodness, one of the the Mediterranean diet cornerstones, characterized by genuine and unmistakable flavor.
A drizzle of olive oil and also the simplest dish colours of taste and goodness comes life. Always equal to itself, for centuries if not millennia. Although in the kitchen is starting to feel a breath of fresh air, thanks to new textures and new formulations.

Wine and health in the history

The use of wine as a medicine has ancient origins. You can find citations about the medicinal use of the wine even in the Bible, in some passages in the Book of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and the First Letter to Ptolemy.
Even before the Egyptians used wine as a local anesthetic.
The Greek physicians Galeno and Celso instead recommend it to all those who suffered from stomach pains and chronic fatigue.

Paccheri eggplant and mussels

Paccheri eggplant and mussels combine all the taste of the kitchen garden products with the intense and strong flavor of the mussels.
Sea and mountains in a fine and easy to realize dish.

Feast in Vico, in Amalfi Coast

Yesterday at the seaside complex Axidie will be held the last of three events of the Vico Feast, an event dedicated to the world of enogastronomy and its key performers born eight years ago thanks to an idea of Chef Gennaro Esposito and ithat grows every year, is renewed and follows a specific theme.
This year the theme was "space odyssey 2011" which Esposito calls "a choice that opens up scenarios that will certainly give moments culinary worthy of attention".

Olive oil production

Olive oil is one of the most precious a Made in Italy product. Rich in nutrients essential for our health and tasty seasoning for our plates, olive oil has always been a leader on the table.
The finest olive oils are obtained by cold pressing, a process which is divided into five main phases, by it is obtained a refined olive oil: