Lard with Genoese basil (a PDO product) is made with Italian lard that's been salted and aged for 40 days. After aging, it develops alternating layers of fat and lean meat. The vivid notes of fresh Genoese basil, dried in...
Their Salame di Varzi Dop Cucito wins you over for its aromatic energy (notes of well-aged meat, pleasant hints of fresh spices and garlic, whiffs of cellar and red wine). Its appearance is rustic, a nice slice reveals the presence...
For those who love cured meats that play on the oxidation of fats as a means to enriching flavor, their coppa is a true gastronomic experience: hints of candied fruit are accompanied by toasted nuts. The meat comes from their...
The 26-month Oro Spigaroli is a culatello to enjoy slowly, the result of old-style pork production that draws on premium meats produced entirely in-house and a curing environment rich in noble molds. A slice offers up broad, extremely complex and...
Lively and complex aromas call up home cooking: meats, green whiffs of olive and the smell of superb, sautéed bread. In the mouth they're even more expressive: delicate, spiced nuances of nutmeg and black pepper, the bitter touch of olive,...
Italian and Greek drupes pitted mechanically are used for their stuffed Ascolana olives (on request they also offer ascolana tenera olives pitted by hand, which were the version tasted here). Vegetable aromas, crunchiness, simple, forthright filling dominated by meat, accompanied...
Made with Peruvian, single-origin cocoa from Apurimac, Perfecto dark chocolate ice cream is milk-free. A brown-mahogany red, it's rich in solids. Full in flavor, it has consistent aromas, multifaceted and evocative (calling up fragrances of red berries, pink grapefruit, cinnamon,...
White-shelled organic eggs were tasted. The yolk is nice and large, hardy and rich in protein, a bright, sunny yellow. The white is firm and compact. Very delicate aromas promise savoriness. In the mouth it reveals faint grassy hints, which...
Fried in corn and sunflower oil, then sprinkled with salt, Lay's Classiche chips come in an all-yellow package. Perfectly sized, they're bright gold in color and evenly cooked, surprising for their unique crunchiness and winning you over with their crispness,...
Fried in olive oil (51%, the rest sunflower oil) and seasoned with salt, their "Mediterranee" chips (which recently changed their packaging) hit the market in 2016. Small and golden, they have a nice, crunchy consistency, simple yet characteristic flavor, and...