News   The Today Show on NBC Channel 4! - Five Tips for Perfect Pasta - February 19, 2008 Il Vecchio Pastificio di Gragnano pasta The new pasta line from Gragnano, Napoli, recommended by Massimo Cannas & MAXCO INT’L Selected as a fantastic NEW pasta from Napoli, Italy! Food editor Phil Lempert reveals the top things you need to know when shopping for and cooking this Italian specialty. Click here to watch the video     CIRIO Conserve Italia 150 years ago Francesco Cirio pioneered the art of preserving Fresh produce under the brand CIRIO, synonymous to quality and excellence. CIRIO is the #1 Italian brand for tomato based products and sauces which are also exported all over the world. A very good quality COMES NATUARALLY!     YOGA & JUVER Conserve Italia YOGA is the leading brand in the Italian juice and nectar markets with a premium positioning while JUVER is the Spanish’s leading brand in the juice market with over 42 years of experience. Conserve Italia was one of the fi rst Italian companies to process fruit juices, hence creating the YOGA brand. Our wide range for the US market includes Apricot, Pear, Peach, Banana, Strawberry, Tropical Mix and more. The high fruit content, which accounts for 50% or more of the product, guarantees an excellent drinking experience. Enjoy!     Abbondio Spa The “Pin-Ups” Soft Soda A 120 years have passed since Angelo Abbondio founded the carbonated drinks plant in Tortona, Piemonte. Today Abbondio drinks can be found in the most sophisticated bars and clubs and in the best food and wine shops in Italy and in a growing number of countries. Harrod’s in London, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Eataly in Turin, just to name a few. The “Pin-Ups” collection, Vintage and Codd bottles, a reminiscent of the fun and carefree life that characterised the 1950’s. Abbondio, the Italian Soft Soda that everybody is looking for!     La Fabbrica della Pasta Chosen in February 2008 by NBC “The Today Show” as one of the preferred NEW pasta brand imported in America from Italy! World wide renowned, the tradional artisan pasta from Gragnano is produced by Moccia’s Family in their “boutique pasta factory” where you are welcome to visit while next time in Napoli! Almost 100 different cuts of your choice.     Il Vecchio Pastificio di Gragnano Chosen in February 2008 by NBC “The Today Show” as one of the preferred NEW pasta brand imported in America from Italy! World wide renowned, the tradional artisan pasta from Gragnano is produced by Moccia’s Family in their “boutique pasta factory” where you are welcome to visit while next time in Napoli! Almost 100 different cuts of your choice.     Pastificio La Fabbrica & Il Vecchio Old pictures of some of our famous customers!     Antonelli Group Srl Antonelli Group Srl was established in 1957 by Nicola Antonelli. At the time, the name of the family owned company was Dolciaria Romana, a small pastry-making laboratory in Rome, Italy. Today, Antonelli Group Srl is one of the most remarkable and important realities in the European confectionery industry, and the croissants “leader” producer in Italy and Europe. With no doubt, they are #1 in the world for quality. Croissant, Treccine, Fagottino, Buondi’, Croissant Sugar Free, Panettoni and Pandoro. Our delicious products are distributed worldwide under the renowned brands Antonelli, Dora 3, Croissant and Grano D’Oro. We are also specialized in “private labels” and more than fifty different brands, controlled by some of our customers, are already distributed in the international markets.     Pastificio Sgambaro Srl - Castello di Godego, Treviso - Veneto Bigoli Nobili - Special Venetian Pasta Since 1400 ~ Available NOW! In the middle of the fifteenth century, the chef of the Bishop of Eraclea – the oldest port of Venice – highly praised a pasta called “bigoli” which, in 1603 received patent and started being produced. This is evidence that the art of making bigoli was the heritage of many areas in Veneto, the region where the mill and pasta factory Jolly Sgambaro was founded and developed. Only the most nutritious grains have been selected to produce this slow dried, bronze drawn, 100% Italian pasta: thanks to a special processing, they retain all their fragrance and nutrition values. The excellent taste of Bigoli Nobili was recognized also by the “Accademia Italiana della Cucina” which, in 1993, awarded the brothers Dino and Enzo Sgambaro for having enhanced “an excellent product of Italian cuisine”.     Accademia Olearia Srl - Alghero, Sardegna The NEW and first Extra Virgin Olive Oil DOP Sardegna is available! The secular experience and the constant passion that alloy the Fois Family to the valuable fruit of the olive tree, assures an only and unmistakable product. From four generations the Fois Family cultivates, collects and spreme the olives that grow in surrounding lands to the city of Alghero. The favorable climate, the selection of the cultivations of the ulivi, a sage milling and a suitable one frantoio give to life to the valuable extra oil vergine of olive yielded of the Academy Olearia di Giuseppe Fois     Ruliano Prosciutti Spa ~ Awarded THE BEST Prosciutto Crudo di Parma !!!! Ruliano produces the very best quality Prosciutto Crudo di Parma in Italy so, in the World. If you are interested to import and to distribute the "Ferrari" of the Prosciutti Crudi di Parma, please read carefull what the press in Italy says about Ruliano and contact our sales office to discuss how to bring this unique food specialty from Riano di Langhirano to the table of your customers. Se assaggi il Prosciutto Crudo di Parma Ruliano, you will love it forever! You are invited to visit our plant (prosciuttificio)in Emilia Romagna, to see where and how we still produce this Italian "masterpiece" in the traditional way. Please, come!     Ruliano Prosciutti Spa NEWS Ruliano, the very best Prosciutto Crudo di Parma in Italy! The world wide famous Italian Gourmet Food writer and chef, Mr. Edoardo Raspelli considers Ruliano the "very best prosciutto of his life"! Also, on Sunday April 29th, on the Italian RAI national television, during the renowned Melaverde broadcast, he will explain why he loves so much the Prosciutto Crudo di Parma produced by Ruliano. The company Ruliano Prosciutti Spa is owned by Daniele Montali and his Family, for more than three generations.     Ruliano Prosciutti Spa NEWS Highest Quality, authentic Parma Ham taste! It's Ruliano, of course!     Ruliano Prosciutti Spa NEWS Ruliano, like we say in Italy, "il sapore della vita",the taste of the life!     Ruliano Prosciutti Spa A portion of the original Italian newspaper article - date April, 2007     Abbondio “Abbondio Vintage Edition”: The Unique and Romantic Italian flavors of the “Pin Up” range! Alongside the classic recipes which have been the mainstays of its long history, Abbondio has created a new series of drinks using high-quality natural ingredients with a fruit base or inspired by beverages in vogue a century ago. “Bianca” is a classic “gazzosa” or citrus-flavoured fizzy drink which is Abbondio’s multi-awarded and strongest product. It is based on five different varieties of Sicilian lemons skilfully blended to obtain a balanced taste. “Tonica” was originally called “bitter gazzosa” in the early 1900s right after its invention. The age-old secret formula perfectly blends the bitter taste of quinine with the tangy taste of lemons. “Chinotto” was born in the 1940s from an original Abbondio recipe. This lightly fizzy drink is blended with a secret ingredient and has a marked, fresh and unmistakable taste. “Rossa” retains the fragrance and the full taste of a beverage of olden days. Its composition includes over ten different essences that give it an aroma halfway between ginger ale and bitters. “Menta” is a traditional thirst-quenching drink composed of three different varieties of Piedmontese mint blended in a secret formula. It has a strong, fresh, and distinctive taste. “Pompelmo & Fragola” was born out of an Abbondio idea of combining the flavours of pink grapefruit and strawberry in a single beverage that harmoniously blends in a lightly fizzy base. “Folie” the latest addition to the range, is based on absinth and evokes late-1800s Paris and its “poètes maudits”. Reinterpreted in a lightly alcoholic version with an alcohol content of only 4°.     Abbondio Spa A story that dates back to a bygone era A hundred and twenty years have passed since Angelo Abbondio founded the carbonated drinks plant in Tortona, Alessandria, which bore his name. Thanks to original and secret recipes based exclusively on high-quality natural ingredients, he was able to concoct incomparable flavours that have been awarded official recognition and the approval of the general public. In 1997, the company still owned by the founder’s heirs was taken over by a young Tortonese engineer, Federico Devecchi, who was just in his early thirties at that time. He decided to put his bet on this historic brand that was firmly rooted in the reality of that area. Thus began a new life for the company: production goes on, fully respecting the age-old recipes but with modern and safer equipment. www.abbondio.it