Is there a better way to wish you all an happy Halloween than a 100% Made in Italy pumpkin risotto cooked by us? Carnaroli Rice Principato di Lucedio, Mantua Pumpkin, Cinta Senese pork guanciale and toasted Avola almonds Nama Mandorle. From the sweetness of the pumpkin to the decise taste of the guanciale, with the toasted note and crunchiness of the Avola almonds, everything starting from a super high quality Carnaroli rice as the ones by an artisan as the Principato di Lucedio.

As a work of art that strikes particularly, this time is the Guanciale (jowl bacon) - La Cinta di Guido to leave us astound. A harsh comparison someone should say, but if you think about it deeply the gastronomy world and art have in common more than you would ever imagine. Both of them have the power to evoke sensation, move, and at the same time so succeed in this task skills, study, knowledge and why not a certain natural predisposition are needed, Someone may not agree, but we believe that food is a means through which transmitting messages and feelings, and isn’t this the aim of art itself?

It’s the moment of the year when a must of the fall gastronomic tradition take its place both in the restaurants and home tables: pumpkin. Talking about this product, it is necessary to mention the Mantua Pumpkin, the queen of the Italian pumpkin varieties. Due to its sweet and velvety flavor it has an amazing versatility, indeed it can be used from the appetizers to the desserts, and paired with some marked flavor ingredients, as it could be some guanciale, it can create some exalting contrasts for the palate.

La Cinta di Guido stuff has just arrived to our stock, directly from Tuscany. Cold cuts like Guanciale (jowl bacon) - La Cinta di Guido, Rigatino di Cinta Senese - La Cinta di Guido, finocchiona are produced with the meats of free range Cinta Senese black pigs, which are grown and nourish themselves in the middle of the marvelous Tuscan countryside. Also the new 2018 vintage of Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Novo Frantoio - La Cinta di Guido is now available, a Tuscan evo oil made in a traditional olive oil mill, extracting the best from Guido’s tuscan olive trees.

Someone could define it a risk, from our point of view we can say that this is a dish conceived following a balance created by the contrasts between the ingredients flavors: The Amatriciana monkfish. Using the right products creativity is exalted: daily fresh fish accompanied by the multiple times rewarded San Marzano tomatoes DOP - Agrigenus, the Guanciale (jowl bacon) - La Cinta di Guido made by our friend and small artisanal producer La Cinta di Guido, Pecorino romano DOP and finally a toasted slice of organic spelt bread. The result is an explosion of tastes, possible thanks to a reinterpretation of a classic recipe of the Italian cuisine and the use of the best Italian products.

How can a customer be really aware of the real quality of the product he's purchasing? Marchesini Salumi is an example of transparency and care for their customers. Every product indeed is traceable through the use of a QR code, with all the informations as where the animal was born, how it was cared they and what it used to eat. In order to have a real traceability the company has integrated all the processes in the internal chain production, from the cultivation of mais, soy and barley used as nourishment for the animals to the butchering. This has been made to allows people to be truly certain of the genuineness of products. Among the cold cuts it is possible to try Guanciale - Azienda Agricola Marchesini, Salame Bresciano - Azienda Agricola Marchesini and many others, they will bring you the real taste of Italian cold cuts from well cared and healthy porks.

What's better than a mixed platter of selected high quality cold cuts to start your Christmas lunch? We're going to suggest you the best among the Italian cold cuts to give you and you family or friends an unforgettable taste experience. Salame punta di coltello - Salumificio Lovison: 100% no GMO Firulian pork meats, secret mix of natural spices, hand chopping of the meat in 2cm square pieces and then a 3 months seasoning. The result is a salami with rough grain that will exalt and make you feel the real taste of the meats. Prosciutto San Daniele DOP (raw ham) on piece - Il Camarin: "Il Camarin" is a small artisanal reality that produces only few thousands of pieces per year, these are very accurately selected and then most of them are destined to the selling to the finest butcheries and high restaurants. We're talking about raw hams endowed with exceptional piebald marking and aging, that distinguish themselves for their sweetness that can be guaranteed only by a well measured use of salt. Guanciale (jowl bacon) - La Cinta di Guido: it is made from the meat of an indigenous breed of pigs, the so-called Cinta Senese. The meat of these pigs is much tastier than of the other races, as in the rearing and feeding of these animals, great emphasis is placed on high-quality forage. The fat is less consistent and more fluid, so more pleasant at the palate, this allows the cold cuts obtained to have a faster spread of the aromas used for spicing it, assuring the product optimal aromatic characteristics. CULATELLO DI ZIBELLO DOP ORO SPIGAROLI - SLOW FOOD- GOLD: an institution in the Italian gastronomic culture. Words aren't enough to describe such a masterpiece, just try it.

Since 1991 tradizioni padane has been producing hand made fresh pasta, initially in a market in which the art of hand making pasta wasn't appreciated at all yet. So the company was one of the first to spread the value of the artisanal products, exalting genuine ingredients and the traditional tastes. As now autumn is coming this is the ideal period for Mantova pumpkins. So what about having a dish of fantastic Tortellini alla Zucca (pumpkin filling)? A simple but delicious recipe for the period of the year, to make it better than it already is we're giving you some ingredients to add. Put some Butter - Az. Agricola Frascio in a pan and when it will be melt add some small pieces of Guanciale - Azienda Agricola Marchesini and some sage leaves Large Leaf Sage - Pot Plant 14 cm - Orto mio until they become crispy (don't burn the butter). So when the tortellini will be ready add all these ingredients, grated Parmigiano Reggiano DOP and some crushed Amaretti (Gavi TYPE) biscuits that pair very well with pumpkin.

Have you ever tried Smoked Buffalo Provola from Battipaglia - Caseificio Esposito? It is a typical Italian cheese made in Campana from buffalo milk, the process is the same as the buffalo mozzarella one but it ends with a final smoking. The result is an awesome buffalo mozzarella with a final smoked touch which gives it a taste you will immediately fell in love with. It can be eaten as an appetizer natural as it is or you can combine it in your recipes, the smoked buffalo provola sides particularly well with sausage, guanciale or pancetta (#bacon) and with potatoes too. If simply take a pan a put together potatoes, smoked provola and pieces of sausage an cook in the oven it will truly amaze you!

If you want to make a really successful Italian pizza you need to start from real Italian good quality ingredients. For the dough try the Tumminia Biologic Semiwhole Flour Stone Milled - Az. Agricola Fastuchera to give an exceptional aroma (only as an addition, because as a main flour this type only is not enough "strong" to levitate as a pizza), the real artisanal Campania buffalo mozzarella Aversana type buffalo mozzarella di Bufala Campana aus Battipaglia - Caseificio Esposito or the Apulian Mozzarella Fiordilatte - Caseificio Voglia di Latte. You can't do it without San Marzano tomatoes DOP - Agrigenus a real DOP, an excellence which has been awarded as the best San Marzano tomato and the Sicilian oregano in the bunch - Az. Agr. Balducco Fulgatore is fundamental too Also the other ingredients are important, we're suggesting you some pairings: -Pizza with Smoked Buffalo Provola from Battipaglia - Caseificio Esposito, potatoes and Guanciale (jowl bacon) - La Cinta di Guido. -Pizza with San Marzano tomatoes DOP - Agrigenus, Aversana type buffalo mozzarella di Bufala Campana aus Battipaglia - Caseificio Esposito and after the cooking add Apulian Stracciatella - Caseificio Voglia di Latte and 1/2 boneless San Daniele DOP raw ham - Il Camarin. -Pizza with San Marzano tomatoes DOP - Agrigenus, Aversana type buffalo mozzarella di Bufala Campana aus Battipaglia - Caseificio Esposito, Gorgonzola DOP and 'Nduja of black calabrian pig - Consorzio Nero di Calabria.

This is the second step of the artisanal beer vertical by the agriculture company conte de Quirra: Birra Golden Ale Costa Rei - CONTE DE QUIRRA As the other beer the barley is cultivated in Sardinia and then beer is made in Tuscany. The result is a simple but powerful refreshing blond beer: In the glass, notes of meadow flowers combine. Soft on the palate with little carbonic acid with a balanced finish (5% Alcohol content) The ideal foodpairing is with Tuscan cold cuts as finocchiona and guanciale, or it could be a great combined with a mix fish or vegetables fry.

Today we want to describe you one of the symbol, maybe the symbol, of the Roman gastronomy: the Pasta all'Amatriciana. The Pasta alla'Amatriciana is a direct descendant of the pasta alla gricia, which is a dish of spaghetti seasoned with EVO oil, clack pepper, Roman Pecorino and guanciale, born in a village called Grisciano. The adding of tomato to the recipe is attributed to a Roman chef called Franceso Leonardi who cooked the first Amatriciana at the end of the XVII century at the court of the Pope, serving during an important institutional banquet a popular dish in perfect Roman style. The amatriciana, as many other pasta recipes, hasn't a strict and well defined disciplinary, there are different adding even depending on which ingredients you have at home, many variants which anyway maintain 3 fundamental ingredients as base: guanciale, tomato and Roman pecorino. Here you are our recipe Ingredients: 400 g of bucatini, 200 g of guanciale, 300 g of tomato sauce, 75 g of grated Roman pecorino, red chili pepper. Put the basta in boiled salted water looking at the cooking time on the pasta box and mixing it in order not to make it attach to the pot. Meanwhile brown the guanciale cut into small cubes (not too small) in a pan until it will be crispy. Then add the tomato sauce and the sliced red chili pepper and make it cook at low flame until the sauce get the right consistency. When the bucatini will be al dente drain them and amalgamate with the sauce stir frying them together adding the roman pecorino, serve them well hot.

When it's dealing with Italy's culinary traditions, you have always to give an important position to the 3 typical Roman pasta: Amatriciana (Gricia too, which is Amatriciana ancestor), Carbonara, Cacio e Pepe. Today we're giving you Pasta alla Carbonara recipe, which origin dates back to the world war two when american soldiers traditional breakfast (eggs and bacon) was mixed with pasta using Italian ingredients and touch discovering this incredible bond of tastes. Ingredients: 400 g of spaghetti Cavalieri, 5 egg yolks 150 g of guanciale - La Cinta di Guido; 100 g of grated Roman Pecorino; black pepper ground at the moment and salt. Unite the egg yolks with the grated pecorino and black pepper (be generous) mix them making a dense cream. Stir fry the guanciale cut into small cubes until it will be crispy (also adding to the cream a little of the fat released by the guanciale to give more flavor). Boil the pasta in salted water, when spaghetti will be cooked "al dente", drain them and amalgamate in a bowl with the cream and guanciale, add a final touch of black pepper and serve it well hot.