In 1920 Zefferino Monini began producing extra virgin olive oil in the Spoleto area, with its many olive-covered hillsides yielding oil with an intense but balanced flavour. Back then most Italians used only olive oil, especially in the city, and...

An icon of Made-in-Italy espresso, Segafredo Zanetti was established in the early 1970s and thanks to expansion became the world's first private coffee sector group. It is the fifth largest producer, with three million sacks of raw coffee sold every...

The business began with Peter Ferdinand Senfter who started artisan speck production in a San Candido butcher, for local consumption in Val Pusteria, using his own animals. In the early 20th century the Senfter butcher business became the official supplier...

In Cremona, Enea Sperlari opened a shop for artisanal production and sale of typical traditional local specialities: nougat and fruit relish. That was in 1836 and the products were a huge success, so by the end of the century the...

Giuseppe Alberti, father of Strega liqueur, opened a café in the main square of Benevento, which would become the meeting place for liberal thinkers of the period. He began producing Strega in 1860, and it was named for the legend...

Valsoia is a reassuringly constant presence among Italian food manufacturers. For years it has been at the forefront in terms of quality and identifying new products capable of satisfying the increasingly health-conscious tastes of consumers. It has made a name...

The trademark shows 1882 as the year in which the adventure began. Domenico Vergnano opened a small grocery store in Chieri, a small town at the foot of the Turin hills. In just a few years it developed into coffee...

Maria Zuegg founded her company over a century ago, making fruit juices and jams. In 1890 she began selling apples, which she exported as far as Saint Petersburg. In 1923 came the first jam production, which was very successful on...

Who doesn't know Tassoni cedrata? Made fashionable during the 1970s by virtue of a famous advert featuring pop star Mina, it's a particularly popular beverage during Italy's hot, summer months. Thanks to a resurgence in vintage drinks, cedrata is enjoying...

Venice, 1911. Angelo Colussi opened his first artisan workshop, a bakery making only bread at first, but soon specializing in baicoli, the city's traditional biscuit. In the 1930s his children took over the business and started a transition to an...