Food producer

This small, artisanal charcuterie producer operates in a tiny facility in an area bordering Abruzzo and Molise. In 2007, Stefano Di Fiore embraced a family tradition passed down over generations, and created Bontà Di Fiore with the goal of promoting...

The full name is Fa.Lu.Cioli, with 'Fa' standing for Fabio and 'Lu' for Luca, the latest generation to lead this historic charcuterie producer, founded by Ovidio Cioli in 1917 and today a market leader. Fabio and Luca oversee their Ariccia...

For more than a century (their 100-year anniversary was celebrated in 2017), Egidio Cioli, now on its fourth generation of family, has been synonymous with Ariccia PGI porchetta, a traditional specialty of the Castelli Romani, just south of the Roman...

Leopardi has been operating since 1947, across four generations, from Empedocle (also known as 'Pepparone'), who began producing porchetta and selling it from his kiosk, to his great-grandson Giorgio, who's grown the business and brought its products to international markets....

Founded by Lino Albiero in 1938 and transformed from an artisanal dairy producer to an industrial one in the 1980s, Albiero was among the first in Italy to produce PDO Provole Valpadana. Using milk provided directly from trusted farms, whose...

Ca.Bre. is an acronym for Casearia Bresciana, a cooperative founded in 1954 by 18 farmers who decided to collect milk from a number of small farms around the Brescia plains and transform it into cheeses. Today they deal with about...

In the town of the Roman poet Horace, this Sileno sausage producer makes high-quality, traditional Basilicata sausage, mostly without the use of preservatives. Their excellent Lucanian sausage, made with wild fennel and hand-cut pork, comes in two versions: sweet (with...

Tuscia's pulses are its pearls: Onano lentils and black lentils, black chickpeas and various types of beans, including the Purgatorio tondino, the Vitbero solfino and the Volsinii bruno amarantino. In addition to legumes, Giuseppe Ranieri and Roberta Mazziantonio cultivate potatoes,...

Chickpeas, soy and chestnut snacks read to eat and enjoy. It's called Prima Colta, a brand of SGIM, an Avellino producer created by the Ingino family in 2009 to process the chestnuts they themselves cultivate. It's an organic and gluten-free...

Verdicchio is not only home to Marche's most famous white wine. It's also a land of pulses, including the Slow Food Presidium Serra de' Conti 'cicerchia' pea and the 'solfino', an ancient bean in the region that's been recently discovered...