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.

We know, seeing Christmas products advertisements already in October can be kinda stressing, but our opinion about Christmas specialities is: if it is good, why not eating it all year long? Or more than two weeks per year at least. This is the reason why we’ve decided to make the Christmas typical Italian products of our catalogue already available: panettone, pandoro, musetto, cotechino, torroni and many others Made in Italy by excellent producers as Fiasconaro, Corsini Biscotti, Salumificio Lovison, Macelleria Mastra Alebardi, Torronificio Barbero with the best raw materials and hand made processes with make them high quality, good and, relatively to the category, genuine products.

Today is the date of the World Pasta Day, a special day for all the Made in Italy food lovers, but above all for our Italian pasta suppliers as Pastificio dei Campi, Pastificio Caponi, Pasta Bossolasco, Pasta Mancini, Pasta Benedetto Cavalieri, La Campofilone, Adamo Bio, Azienda Agricola la Fastuchera and many others. What groups in with these pasta producers are the selection of high quality raw materials, the maintenance of craft processes and the care for the details. These can be less profitable choices, that implies extra work, but they’re what let us taste such high level products. In this day our wishes and congratulations go out to these pasta makers, true ambassador of Italian taste and culture.

Do you feel like allow yourself an extra luxury for your palate? Well, the Calvisius Caviar will absolutely work for you. Coming from one of the most important sturgeon breedings and caviar production centers in the entire Europe, placed in Calvisano in the province of Brescia. The experience and commitment to this unique taste product have made Calvisius an extremely high quality Made in Italy Caviar producer. Few days ago we tried the Calvisius Siberian Royal - Calvisius Caviar, a kind of Italian caviar that is really suited to the recipes, in a pasta with caviar dish that really captured us with its decise, well defined but at the same time enveloping taste.

Italia Zuccheri is the only company in the whole peninsula to produce an 100% Italian sugar. Every process of the production chain i rigorously made within the national territory, starting from the sugar beetroots seeding, and controlled following strict qualitative standards with a precise aim: obtaining an high quality beetroot raw sugar respecting the environment in every passage. The attention and the care of all the processes allow to obtain a final product 100% Beetroot Raw Sugar Italian NOSTRANO- Italia Zuccheri completely Made in Italy endowed with a natural, aromatic and not excessive sweetness.

During the last years red meat has been in the center of many debates, in some cases, we feel free to say, excessively stigmatized. Indeed as it is for every food it is enough to consume the right amount of it, focusing on the choice of high quality red meat, but how? A first step is selecting Made in Italy products, it’s not about patriotism, but simply because the base controls established by the Italian disciplinary are among the most strict of the world. Secondly it would be ideal know the origin, alimentation and treatments received by the animal. The last one is a service that Macelleria Mastra Alebardi has started to offer, giving the total traceability of the Fassona Piemontese meat, bred and butchered directly from the Macelleria Mastra Alebardi itself, From the classic Costata (Entrecôte) made from Fassona beef from Piedmont - Macelleria Mastra Alebardi, fiorentina and many other cuts for a tasty, healthy and controlled red meat.

As a Christmas gift the Italian excellences and their authentic tastes are a guaranteed success, for this reason OIP gives you the possibility to compose your own customized Christmas gift box. Discover the specialities from all the Italian regions: hand made panettone, red and white Italian wines, Franciacorta wines, exquisite cold cuts, Ribera oranges, fresh aged cheese, sauces, artisanal pasta and many other products. An high quality Made in Italy selection, ready to end up under the Christmas tree in gift box decorated with Christmas motif and delight the palates of your loved ones.

If you’re looking for a recipe to try here it is a suggestion: Risotto with fresh pesto alla Genovese, Italian Potatoes from Sila, Roman Cauliflower, Sicilian peeled, roasted, almonds - Nama Mandorle and Olive taggiasche denocciolate - Pexto. Carnaroli Rice Principato di Lucedio accompanied by the classic pesto and potatoes pairing, the sweetness of roman broccoli contrasted by the strong and decise taste of the taggiasche olives and in the end a touch of crunchiness given by the toasted almonds. A recipe entirely made up of Made in Italy and healthy ingredient which, due to their well balanced flavours, forming a tasty and harmonious dish.

When you’re thinking about something great and tasty to cook, sometimes all you need is simplicity and good raw materials to get an outstanding result. This is the case of an eternal classic recipe of the Italian gastronomic tradition: spaghetti with tomatoes. Only two ingredients are necessary, the Spaghettoni Cavalieri and the San Marzano tomatoes DOP - Agrigenus tomatoes . 100% Made in Italy tasty and healthy high quality products which will bring your recipe completely to a new level.

It's now available the new 2018 vintage of the *Novello Cutrera - Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Fresco di Frantoio,an unquestionably renowned and high quality extra virgin olive oil. Its flavor will convey your bread, vegetables and recipes with the real taste of a Made in Italy Sicilian extra virgin olive oil 100% made up of Sicilian olives.

The Extra Virgin Olive Oil Garda Bresciano PDO Organic - Podere dei Folli has just been selected as part of the products enrolled to represent the best of the Made in Italy food and wine at GourmArte2018. Consequently the agricultural company Podere dei Folli has been attributed the title of custodian of taste, a reward that witnesses the quality of the products of the company and the promotion of a 100% natural production which is the result of the meeting between tradition and innovation.

Pasta, especially in the Mediterranean diet, is one of the main elements, so it is fundamental to choose an high quality and genuine pasta. Pasta Bossolasco is a warranty of the quality of its raw materials, since the company itself cultivates the wheats from which derives the flour of which the final product is made up of. An 100% Made in Italy pasta endowed with extraordinary organoleptic and taste properties. The different formats makes it fit for every recipe, in the photo Spaghetti - Pasta Bossolasco with a three tomatoes sauce on an Sicilian ancient wheats bread cream aromatized with basil, Mature salted sheep ricotta and crispy bread crumbs with chili.

The polenta is one of the most ancient known recipes and, still nowadays, it is appreciated and reinterpreted all around the world. By now in the Northern Italy the polenta is a pillar of the culinary tradition, above all in Lombardy and Veneto. Polenta (Corn Flour) - Oi is the perfect base to cook ah high quality polenta, a 100% Made in Italy flour (precisely on the Oglio river park, in Brescia). The milling by stone and the previous semi-decortication of the grain make the polenta pleasantly fresh and tasty. This flour is the ideal for the coatings: it will give your fried food a perfect crunchiness and a delicate but unique aroma.

For the people who, sometimes, have no time for cooking, the frozen pizza can be a convenient solution. Even if the products that can be found in the supermarkets are often not high quality ones. We've selected for you PIZZA MARGHERITA - M.E.G.I.C. PIZZA. A pizza sealed in modified atmosphere, so not frozen, that preserves, thanks to this method, all the taste and organoleptic properties, as it has been just made without the use of any preservative. The ingredients are high quality ones, from the durum wheat flour 0 type, to the tomato and the fior di latte mozzarella (not always used in the pizzerias yet) 100% Made in Italy. It keeps for 20 days, it is also possible to frozen it in order to make it keep longer. To bring out the flavours and aromas during baking, preheat the oven at 250°C and place the pizza directly on the oven grill. Thereafter bring the oven temperature down to 220°C and let it cook for 6 to 8 minutes depending on whether you prefer a soft or crispier pizza base. As an alternative, you can place it in a pan for 8 to 10 minutes maximum.

More and more people are coming back to dedicate themselves to the home made production of bread, focaccia and pizza. We of OIP want to help you to reach the best possible result, both on the taste and in the genuineness of the final product. The flours that can be find on the supermarket shelves aren’t always good quality raw materials, so they alter the tastes and the organoleptic qualities of bakery products in a negative way. Within our catalogue you will be able to find different kind of flours, from the most common varieties to the ones derived from ancient wheats. All of them rigorously Made in Italy all over the production processes: from the wheat cultivation without dangerous chemical fertilizers, to the stone milling. Why using Italian flour? The flour leader countries producers (Canada, Rumania), due to the lack of sun and warm needed for the most part of the year, are obliged to dry the wheat using the glyphosate, an herbicide that avoid the wheat to go bad within few days, but it surely hasn’t a good effect on health, so that it is under observation as a possible cancerous substance. In Italy, on the contrary, particularly in the Southern regions, is endowed with a warmer and sunny weather, so the producers are able to dry wheat naturally under the sunbeams. To give your dough an unique aroma try the flours by Fastuchera Agricultural Company, a small company that invest in the production of flours deriving from Sicilian ancient wheats, towards a eco sustainable agriculture protecting the biodiversity and the genuineness of the final product. Maiorca Flour Soft wheat Bio Molita in Pietra - Fastuchera Farm, Russulidda Durum Wheat Semolina Sicilian biologic stone ground - Fastuchera Farm, Tumminia Biologic Semiwhole Flour Stone Milled - Az. Agricola Fastuchera.

Today we’re introducing you a new entry on OIP catalogue: Lumè. The company is specialized in the breeding and then the processing of snails, a gastronomic product as rare as fine. This production line is born from the union of small Italian agricultural realities, associated by the rigorous observance of the disciplinary that allows to obtain a complete organic cycle product. Every production phase is Made in Italy, included the culinary transformation, that is assigned to a family run artisanal lab. Here the best snails and the best Italian raw materials are selected to obtain a final result of excellence. Bring them on your table as an appetizers in the available varieties Lumache al naturale - Lumé, Lumache erbette e speck - Lumé, Ragù di lumache – Lumé and many more.

Vinitaly celebrates the 50 years of Sassicaia. The iconic wine of Made in Italy a the center of a historical vertical.

The president of Masi Agricola Sandro Boscaini the 3rd of March 2017 has received the Leonardo Italia Quality Award 2016, a reward given every year by the Leonardo Committee to the most representative companies of the Made in Italy excellence.