martedì 23 agosto 2011

Aubergines in oil

Good beyond measure. A typical summer vegetables that everyone loves and suitable to be cooked in a thousand ways: we are speaking about eggplant.
What a pity that when the summer ends, we have to wait the next summer to enjoy the full flavor of this tasty and inviting vegetable. Unless prepare the eggplant in oil, one of the most good preserved.

venerdì 22 luglio 2011

Italian wine and tourism: Qualitalia project



The link between Italian wine and tourism is getting stronger and now it is estimated that over two million tourists visit the Italian countryside and its famous wine cellars and enjoy Italian wine tasting.

giovedì 7 luglio 2011

Lemon chicken

We are in summer. What fresh and tasty dinner to eat? Hot temperatures and muggy heat would go hungry even the most greedy.
What to cook of light and fresh?
Today we proposes you the recipe of the lemon chicken, a second course coming directly from distant and exotic China, even if the ingredients are all strictly Mediterranean.

The holy beer

Now it is a real trend that is affecting wines, beers and spirits. We are talking about custom bottles.
Among the final marketing operation beer of Pope Benedict XVI, a beer created by a Bavarian brewery, the Weideneder Bräu, in honor of the pontiff.

venerdì 1 luglio 2011

When the wine is corked

Situation: have you buy Italian Wine but it is corked? Have you ever asked which the cause is?
In 70-80% of cases the direct cause of cork taint is the presence of chlorine anisoles inside the cork, and, to be more specific, the presence of 2-4-6 trichlorineanisole (TCA), the number one cause of the bad taste of wine.

venerdì 24 giugno 2011

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.

mercoledì 22 giugno 2011

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.