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A family company set up to promote the farming economy of the area. In 1999, after the creation of a Slow Food Presidium to protect Sant'Antonio Abate and Campania tomatoes, retrieving native cultivar seeds and using the cultivation and processing...

Stefano Rocca began the tradition by producing botargo with the IV Regia fishermen's cooperative of Cagliari's Stagno di Santa Gilla. In the 1980s his grandson, another Stefano, opened a plant inspired by traditional craft production. The striped mullet and tuna...

In their small Turin shop, Giovanni and Carlo Cinzano, master spirit distillers, launched a new trend in aromatic wines, made with local herbs and spices in 1757. About 30 years later they were appointed official suppliers to the Royal Household...

Not many people know that Francesco Cirio began his business in Turin, at the Porta Palazzo vegetable market. Here he started trading fruit and vegetables to France and England. In 1856 he was only 20 years old when he opened...

The origins of Bauli are the stuff of legends. In 1927 Verona pâtisseur Ruggero Bauli, decided to go to Argentina in search of fortune. He sailed on the Principessa Mafalda, which was shipwrecked and Bauli was saved by miracle. He...

The pecorino cheese made at Maiorano is at the top of its class. It's available on the market at various ages, from thirty days to 'gran riserva' (more than a year), with a flavor that goes from mild to decisive,...

Arrigoni bring together cheese-making and farming, making sure they have a hand in every stage of production. Milk is brought in daily, from more than 20 select stables, including their own, and worked into the final product largely by hand....

Founded in 1900, this was one of the first social cooperative dairies in the Po Valley, set up by farmers tired of milk prices imposed by the industry. Its facilities cover 60,000 square metres and it collects milk from Friesian...

An agricultural cooperative found in Val Taleggio, established by an initiative of the Valle Brembana mountain community and Taleggio and Vedeseta municipal authorities. Chaired by Flaminio Locatelli, the cooperative today is a point of reference for local farmers and a...

For four generations traditional Bergamo cheeses have been made and aged here. The sheer quality of the various dairy products is due to the manual processing of milk brought only from selected local farms, combined with the expertise of the...