Years 2 | n. 14 | 10 March 2010 | Director LUIGI CARICATO

The logic of simple things

di Gualtiero Marchesi

Wellness is guaranteed by extra virgin olive oil

According to professor Caramia this “fat liquor” is the most meaningful example of a product which is food and medicine at the same time. New scientific evidences support the use of extra virgin oil for its manifold manifold healthy aspects

Health

Is better beer or wine to prevent diseases?

Red wine contains all the active principals of fruit, especially polyphenols but a new study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density

Health

Mediterrean diet is the key to get out of this mess

"Every aspect of human life including the risk factors for heart attack has a genetic component" tell Jeremiah Stamler, guest of the fourth “John Paul II” conference

Health

Claudio Sadler: a chef with ideas and projects

He dreams to revive a restaurant in Tokyo or to create a line of products with his brand. His cooking is volcanic and innovative but he does not like to deconstruct for reconstructing

Tastes

Daniela Marcheschi: “I have a living relationship with the rural world”

The Italian writer is a member of a countryside bourgeoisie family of Tuscany. She proudly lives in Lucca, a city immersed in the countryside

Interviews

A morbid gastronomy in the Toilet Restaurants

Even feces can be turned into gold! This is the slightly perverse reasoning of the former Chinese banker Eric Wang. Why then not to create an entire menu inspired to the corporal needs and set it in an evocative enough restaurant? Reportage from Paola Cerana on this new trend

Gastronomy

Bolgheri DOC: the begining of the Super Tuscans

It is not just a question of varieties: it is the “terroir” that has made this area the great birth place for the Super Tuscan wines production

Knowledge

Grupo Sos dismantles the Projecto Tierra

The company closes down in Portugal, Morocco and Tunisia and all the assets are acquired by the Portuguese society Sovena which is more and more challenging the leadership of the Spanish competitor

Business

Skipping the lunch is bad for sex

According to the experts, the diet and the sexual life are closely connected. Skipping the lunch and starving can lead to some problems with the partner

Health

Now business analysts talk about wine

The report by the American expert John Mariani, from Bloomberg group, predicts a hard 2010 for wine, in agreement with the less optimistic analyses from OIV

Grapevine & Wine

Rainforest species returns in Sri Lanka

The huge demand for oil that agarwood produces has driven the illegal logging trade. Agarwood is the most valuable tree in the world, used for perfumes mainly in the Middle East

Nature

Italy against GM crops

After the ruling of administrative Court, the Ministry Zaia said: "we will respect the sentences but will use any tool available to safeguard farmers and consumers"

Italy

New tool to fight against the rust strain Ug99

Identified by international scientists 100 lines that have resistance to the deadly Ug99 stem rust and its descendants

Science News

France remains Europe's agricultural powerhouse

New food and beverage research report about the agribusiness market and future in the 2010. Will the decline continue? One component that needs to be considered is bioethanol

Europe

Fresh wheatgrass is nature's best secret

Consumed in the form of juice, the fresh wheatgrass provides numerous health benefits

Health

Soybean genome was mapping

A team, supported by United Soybean Board, has already yielded new discoveriesNew soy products aid in sustainable agriculture

Science News

Also the Brunello di Montalcino goes via text message

For a better transparency the Brunello Conservation Association now opens to mobile phones. Now it is possible to get information about a bottle through a simple text message

Italy

Fair trade sales rise 12%.

More than 100,000 Palestinians rely on olive farming as the primary source of their income, but no one in Palestine considers olive farming as just a regular job

Business

To use wine by-products to reduce pollution?

The idea of the Veneto region, in Italy, is to grant a longer life to the old diesel vehicles by employing an additive able to decrease the pollutant emissions

Grapevine & Wine

 

Beautyfly - photo Paola Cerana

photo archive

OLIVE OIL 

From Sicily’s satellite, a soft extra virgin olive oil

Pantelleria Arabic name is Qawsarah or Bent el Rion, meaning Daughter of the Wind. Here Biancolilla cultivar express his tipicity

di Luigi Caricato

WINE 

From Don Sebasiani & Sons the Aquinas Cabernet

A Napa Valley young company with lot of awards. Named American Winery of the Year by Wine Enthusiast Magazine, his wine conquests also Wine Spectator

di Graziano Alderighi

COOKING RECIPE 

A fresh sea salad rich of ingredients and fantasy

Urchin, smoked salmon, cauliflower mousse and salmon caviar for a light meal with a great personality

di Claudio Sadler

RURAL PEOPLE

Francesca Petrini: the farming is action and innovation

From a farm that boost an innovative olive oil, now sold in pharmacies, a young business woman who hates bureaucrats and the sleepy attitude of agriculture

YOUR VOICE

HPV Vaccine Controversy: Sex, Cancer, God and Politics

A medical book used as an educational tool both by the public and professionals in the U.S. and abroad, written without the influence of any pharmaceutical companies or special interest groups

BOOKS

A catalogue of writes and books on the rural world

A can’t-miss list of titles for the lovers of the agricultural world and of country life and its complex dynamics. (6. To be continued)

TRAVEL

Taste wine with iPhone

A guide for the Temecula area, named “Temeku" which translates to “where the sun shines through the mist”

WHISPERS

The roundness of sex

Greediness? It can be a seduction tool. Who said that fat people have worst performances than slim people?