September 2014

Go for a walk around Garda, between olive trees and vineyards, the 1st “Giancarlo Turri” memorial

  Giancarlo Turri was an outstanding entrepreneur in the field of extra virgin olive oil production, but also an excellent sportsman. Our family still treasures an article about him that appeared in a newspaper dating back to the Forties. In the words of the enthusiastic journalist, “[Giancarlo Turri] fought with all his might, he, the

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On the custom of starting a meal with a salad

  Bartolomeo Platina, a Renaissance humanist writer who worked as a tutor for the noble Gonzaga family, gained great fame for his treatise on gastronomy, food hygiene and recommendations entitled De honesta voluptate et valetudine (“On honourable pleasure and health”). This book examined in great depth the properties of vegetables and salads and inaugurated a

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