Years 2 | n. 8 | 03 September 2010 | Director LUIGI CARICATO

Soul foods VS healthy foods

di Alberto Grimelli

Wine and health: a winning match

The beneficial effects of drinking wine with moderation are demonstrated by numerous researches. What is new is that the average polyphenols in Italian red wines is twice as much as in Californian wines and four as much as in French reds

Health

A portrait of Italian olive oil world by Istat

The structure and solidity of the area, the contribution and potential of extra virgin olive oils with original denomination. Useful data to understand the production in Italy

Olive & Oil

The digital vineyard runs after sustainability

These are the ongoing researches: improving our knowledge of the plant metabolism and finding out its different response mechanisms

Grapevine & Wine

Shanghai, return flight

Even at the Shanghai Expo the Italian gastronomy can confront with an ancient history and culture by transforming itself without disowning its origins, always drawing from a beauty model

Gastronomy

Emergency for E. coli in Usa: ST131 is antimicrobial-resistant

A new, drug-resistant strain of E. coli is causing serious disease. In the past, highly virulent bacteria strains usually have been susceptible to antibiotics

Health

How to preserve wine to the best of one’s ability? It depends on the cork and on the bottle

Directions to follow not only with maturation wines. With longer stays in the cellars and on the shelves the aromatic features need to be better preserved

Grapevine & Wine

The extra virgin oil acts directly on DNA

The olive oil bio-phenols modify the expression of genes involved in arteriosclerosis

Science News

Resveratrol protects also the Retina

According to a recent research on mice, the molecule present in wine called resveratrol can improve the visual acuity

Health

Extra virgin Italian oil in India, but carefully

Not a competition with the Indian culinary traditions but the discovery of a new kind of food through a three year promotional campaign

Olive & Oil

The deep-water wine at record prizes

The 6,500 bottles of spumante wined for thirteen months under the water were recently recovered. They will be sold for Christmas

Album

News in glyphosate manufacturing technology

A project of “11th five-year plan” National Science and Technology Support Programs, passed the acceptance inspection

Science News

Spain producers struggled

Spanish agriculture is struggling across the board, with even the once mighty sugar and barley sectors expected to see stagnant or even declining growth

Europe

USA launches new climate change research projects

The studies will make use of existing data, field studies and modeling to better understand the effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems

Nature

Variety is essential to good nutrition

Is vegetarianism healthy? Care needs to be taken if you restrict animal foods in your diet also if plant foods are important, protective foods

Health

Cleanup Gulf of Mexico will take years

BP have announced that with the oil spill no longer leaking into the Gulf of Mexico the environmental damage is likely to "take years" to clean up,

America

Do soy isoflavones boost bone health?

Some natural compounds in foods might play in strengthening our skeletons. Those compounds include estrogen-like substances known as soybean isoflavones

Health

Report on pesticide residues in food

The report shows that 96.5% of the samples analysed comply with the maximum residue levels (MRLs) of pesticides permitted for food products

Europe

 

Beautyfly - photo Paola Cerana

photo archive

OLIVE OIL 

From the Green Heart of Italy: Gradassi olive oil

Following a centuries' old family tradition, they carefully handpick the olives to then bring them to the olive mill on their Estate which dates back as far as 1639

di Luigi Caricato

WINE 

Henkell, the German style of champagne

The largest and most modern sparkling wine cellar was born in 1832 and now produce more than 20 million bottles. Dosage Zero is a best cru, without any addition of sugar after fermentation

di Graziano Alderighi

COOKING RECIPE 

Puff of Caprino cheese, eggplant and beef tartare in broth of tomato

A summer hot dish from the creativity of the Italian chef Giancarlo Perbellini. He likes cakes but today he offers us an interesting puff

di Giancarlo Perbellini

RURAL PEOPLE

Eleonora Briguglia: the art in the farm

After expericenes around the world she decides to return home, in her Sicily because "if we respect our earth our future could have some better expectations"

HEALTH

A gene for longevity

A study published on Science will allow to determine if an individual is predisposed to reach one hundred years of age, paving the way to personalized genomics

WHISPERS

The world is for bastards. Let’s call them with their name

The whole truth. Felice Modica doesn’t neglect any particular: the politically-correct names disgust me