Food producer

This 11-partner cooperative was formed in 1999 to package and sell the best rice. Its members, who farm around 1,300 hectares of land overall, are quality conscious and believe in eco-friendly farming methods with low environmental impact. Its products include...

Pasquale Battista's children inherited his passion and continue his production of three preservative- and additive-free lines. One is devoted to anchovies (marinated, spicy, salted in traditional clay pots); the top of the range line is tonnara-fished tuna and tuna belly,...

Founded in 1654, this is the only company producing canned Mediterranean bluefin tuna in olive oil, fished according to the traditional "mattanza" system. The cans contain only bluefin caught in the Sardinian traps at Carloforte, Portoscuso and Porto Paglia. Ligure...

There is the tang of the ocean in the story of this company, founded in 1898, when Luigi Rizzoli started to filet and package anchovies in Turin, a city on the ancient salt road. Luigi's son Emanuele moved to Parma...

The new Ferraro bresaola is the product of a meeting between Simone Ferraro, an artisan of bresaola made without preservatives, and Mamete Prevosini, a wine entrepreneur. Production is still artisanal, even if the recipe, which calls for select meat and...

In other words, traditional Italian sausages, salami and biscuits, with delightful, spicy, old-style flavours, some dating back to the 16th-century Italian courts, others from popular Marche culture of the late 19th-early 20th-centuries. These are reworked by Daniela Storoni following the...

It was seven years ago that Valpolicella-based cured meat producer Walter Ceradini tried to save a culatta that was too dry by wetting it with Recioto della Valpolicella. This was the birth of Vinappeso, the marriage of two noble products:...

Gerardo di Nola is linked to two typical Italian products: pasta and canned tomatoes. Pasta, among the best in Italy and famous throughout the world, is crafted from selected durum wheat, preferably Italian, then drawn by bronze into classic shapes...

Its estate in Lomellina produces a variety of fine rice, all of which are processed mechanically, leaving the crop in its natural state to produce a genuine, natural product with no extra preservatives or additives. It produces a dozen different...

This model family-run farm occupies over 500 hectares in the heart of the Lomellina district, in Parco Regionale Lombardo della Valle del Ticino. Here, in an unspoilt environment, they grow superfine Carnaroli rice, with every stage performed using traditional methods,...