Panettone are delicious, light italian bakes popular around Christmas. Seggiano is a family owned company importing high quality food, drink and ingredients into the UK from artisan producers around the country.
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Bitter sweet festivals of Ligurian citrus
Liguria in northern Italy is famous for its rocky coastlines, spectacular scenery and citrus. Hoping that the events can run again in 2022
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Pane di Matera, heritage grains and James Bond 007
Delayed by the Covid pandemic, the latest James Bond movie is released this week and part of the active takes place in the southern Italian city of Matera, home of spectacular scenery and a visit by the author and his class mates from the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
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Plates of little Waterfalls are a Mission ImPASTAble
Fancy creating a new pasta shape. Well, US-based food writer and podcaster Dan Pashman did just that and his Cascatelli pasta is now available to buy online (if you live in the US)
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DECEMBER 19: Panettone is all about Italian Christmas tradition
Panettone is an Italian specialty eaten around Christmas time.
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DECEMBER 8: Food, wine and a taste of the season
Across Southern Europe citrus season is unfolding and our taste buds are once again becoming sensitive to Christmas flavours.
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DECEMBER 4: Vin d’Orange, sunshine on a grey day
A sneaky pre-Christmas taste of this year’s vin d’orange! Very sweet and ready, but l can wait, I think!
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GOAT HERDING FOR SEASONAL CHEESE
Gazelle. “That one over there,” says Renato Maunero, “she’s called Gazelle.” He was pointing to a nanny goat struggling to keep up with the rest of the 70 or strong herd and they grazed their way through a glade in the fields just south of the Piemonte hilltop towns of Cherasco and La Morra in […]
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Honey, I’m bee whispering in Lombardy
High up in the hills of Lombardy, south of Milan, are 400 bee hives dotted around fields, woodlands and edging vineyards. They belong to siblings Michela and Paolo who for the past ten years have created a life in the countryside of Lombardy in northern Italy looking after bees, showing a sincere love and caring […]
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Bitter orange flowers offer sweet flavours
High above the Mediterranean Sea in Vallebona, an ancient town in the Italian province of Liguria, lies a grove of bitter orange trees. Family run, the La Vecchia Distilleria grove is developing a reputation for high quality orange water known as Acqua di Fiori d’Arancio Amaro and for a limited production of neroli, an essential […]
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