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While waiting for the first container of the Gustoso products, which is expected to reach the United States on February 2018, the managers of the project Daniele Cipollina and Paolo Internicola and the representatives of the businesses which have joined the network will land in New York. The framework event is called ‘The Best Italy’ and is organis...

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An ambitious network gathering 12 Sicilian businesses under a single brand (Gustoso Sicilian Food Excellence) has formed with the objective of conquering US retail shelves and taking Sicilian food businesses overseas. How? By raising the interest of consumers who usually buy niche products exalting their authenticity, history and tradition and prom...

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E’ stato presentato questa mattina nell’aula consiliare di Palazzo delle Aquile il nuovo progetto “Gustoso”, ideato per mettere in rete i valori culturali della filiera agroalimentare siciliana e sostenere la produzione di qualità e la consapevolezza alimentare. “Con il brand Gustoso – spiega Daniele Cipollina founder Gustoso Sicilian Food Excellen...

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Quattro mesi fa l'annuncio del sindaco Giangiacomo Palazzolo: "Ad ottobre una nuova via collegherà il centro abitato di Cinisi a Piano Peri. Porterà il nome di chi ha reso possibile l'opera, Paolo Butera, cinisense emigrato in America dove ha fatto fortuna che ha deciso di finanziarla". Promessa rispettata: stamattina la strada è stata inaugurata....

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Dark, bitter and gritty: it might not be everyone’s cup of cocoa, but Sicilian chocolate is certainly unique. Now Italian artisans are seeking European protection for the distinctive chocolate made in the town of Modica, near the southern tip of Sicily. One of the region’s representatives in the national Chamber of Deputies, Nino Minardo, has appea...

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November 3-4, 2017Marines’ Memorial Theatre, San FranciscoEven before their rapid conquest of England in 1066, Norman knights arrived in Saracen-controlled Sicily. Pretending to serve as mercenaries variously to the Lombards, the local lords of Benevento or the Byzantines, they plotted long-term opportunities for themselves in Sicily. Those who fou...

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Ironically enough, musical genius Frank Zappa and a 13th century poet, Cielo d’Alcamo, had some important things in common. These artists so vastly disparate in time and space share an iconoclastic spirit and the colors of two neighboring cities in northwest Sicily. The audacious American rocker, who blazed his own trail across genres and eras like...

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Mirco Scarantino won his ninth European title and secured yet another gold medal for the Sicilian town that can justifiably claim to be the weightlifting capital of the world. Scarantino, 22, whose next target is the podium at the World Championships in Anaheim, California in six weeks, is from an illustrious weightlifting family and an even more i...

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Dal 6 al 12 ottobre, Miss Chef è tornata a New York per realizzare la sua sesta edizione internazionale. Miss Chef è la prima competizione tra alcune delle migliori chef donne italiane con la proposizione, tutta in rosa, dei più rinomati menù della tradizione culinaria nostrana, valorizzando il "Made in Italy" delle eccellenze eno-gastronomiche e l...

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Southern Italian citrus company Oranfrizer has high expectations ahead of this year's campaign thanks to favourable weather conditions that will be conducive to "excellent" aroma and flavour in the fruit.  With temperatures dropping, and the peak of Mount Etna seeing its first bit of snow, the citrus harvest season in Sicily is fast approaching. In...

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