F.lli Turri is sponsoring Jacopo Porreca and Niccolò Varanini, two young athletes who will be taking part in the third edition of Transcontinental. This is one of the hardest cycling races ever devised, in which riders have to compete completely unsupported.
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In ancient Rome and Greece, oil was mostly used for body care: it was a common practice to douse oneself with olive oil in public bathhouses or thermae. Two frescoes found in Pompeii and Herculaneum depict the techniques employed to prepare scented skin balms. Olives were first ground and then pressed between two planks of
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The history of oil is intertwined with that of our Mediterranean diet. It was the first investigations on this latter regime, considered to be the most popular in the world, that started to shed light on the benefits of olive oil. A Greek couple, the Trichopoulos, were the first researchers to reveal that the Mediterranean
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Let’s forget the boring exercise bicycles found in gyms and imagine instead ourselves riding a bike on a lovely sunny day along a scenic route, perhaps stopping here and there to enjoy a piece of cheese, some olive oil or a glass of wine.
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We are all in favour of bicycles. This is the result of a number of polls and interviews focusing both on springtime activities, favourite sports or ways to move around town for leisure. There are many reasons why cycling is good for our health: it has beneficial effects on our cardiovascular system, muscles, bones and
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In bygone days, olive oil was chiefly used for body massage and other cosmetic purposes. Documents reveal that in ancient Greece, every adult consumed up to 55 litres of oil per year, 30 of which were employed for personal hygiene. Likewise, the ancient Romans used olive oil as a detergent and body-care product, and were
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The activity carried out by the ancient guild of the formaggeri, known locally as casolini and throughout the Middle Ages as carnaroli or lardaroli, corresponds to that of present-day delicatessen shop-owners; on their premises, present in every square and district, customers could find butter, cheeses produced in the environs of Verona, Brescia and Lodi,
As we all known, a long, long time ago people used to accumulate large stocks of oil, cereals and wines in the larders of their town homes or farmhouses. Everybody lived in fear of food supplies running short, even of a famine, and therefore they all tended to accumulate, since nobody knew how the
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Pedanius Dioscorides was a Roman physician, pharmacologist and botanist who practiced medicine in Rome during the reign of the emperor Nero. He became famous for his De materia medica, a pharmacopeia – i.e. an encyclopedia on herbal medicine and related medicinal substances – that was held in high regard throughout time, hence influencing the
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More often than not, free acidity is considered the hallmark of a superior oil. This is partly true, but so as not to mislead the consumer, when free acidity is indicated on the label, the law requires that other data be supplied, such as the oil’s peroxide index, wax content and UV absorption.
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