If you are visitng Positano, take the short trip up the mountain and visit the tiny village of Montepertuso. While you are there, stop and enjoy a meal with our friends at Il Ritovo.
Food: February 2003 Archives
Armando Manni, the Italian director of the 1998 film, "Elvis & Marilyn", which according to him was, "after Life Is Beautiful … the most awarded Italian movie out of Italy" also produces two award-winning olive oils.
Jean-Luc Danneyrolles has for many years collected vegetables and rare botanicals and dedicates a large part of his activity to the production of seeds and heirloom plants.
This cheese cooperative has an interesting history. In the 1950’s Tuscany’s feudal estates were broken up and many farm workers moved to industrial cities. The contadini left the land they had worked for generations, including much of the Val d’Orcia and the Crete Senesi hills.
Above his candy shop, Roberto Catinari painstakingly makes chocolates with liquid centers.
Visit this exciting new shop (opened in 2002) the next time you are in Paris. You'll find pastries and confections by the innovative pastry-chef, Pierre Herme.
Cinta Senese are wild white pigs reknown since 1338 and at present under the strict regulations of the European Community.
This speciality – also known as "Sesame Croccante" – is a nougat produced in Noto and is strictly bound to the Mediterranean confectionary tradition. Sesame was brought to Sicily by the Arabs, together with cultivation techniques and recipes to make sweets. The manufacture of Giuggiolena is based on local ingredients: thyme honey from Iblei, almonds from Noto and the rind of Sicilian Oranges, in addition to sesame.
