Food is the portal of food and wine and made in Italy excellence in the agro-food sector. It is edited by Giuliano DeRisi, a long-time professional and former director of one of the major national news agencies, a great expert and connoisseur ofItalian food. And, around him, there is a team of first-rate professionals and collaborators, because this world must be told and known not only in its most immediately and easily perceivable seductive aspects, but also in its most real and deep-rooted meanings.
But why food? The first answer is in the numbers: 800.000 companies, 1 million and 600.000 employees, a complex production sector that guarantees 13,5 percent of the national GDP, and which with 41 billion in sales abroad (and 50 billion estimated by 2020) it makes a decisive contribution to the equilibrium of our country's trade balance. All of this has a name: Agribusiness, a word that only a few decades ago referred to rural visions of our country, and which today represents a banner not only of Italian manufacturing pride but also of its history, its traditions, its culture.
A complex world around which many other subjects revolve, from tourism to industry, from commerce to services, from food and wine to crafts and agriculture, an articulated system of modern widespread economy of the territory under the banner of Made in Italy: which, over the past two decades, has experienced development indicators that are absolutely in contrast with the stagnation of the national economy.
Food wants to address the world of food and wine and agro-industrial Made in Italy in a global way – this is what makes it its distinctive feature – highlighting its qualitative heritage of excellence, its history, its economic and social values, but above all giving a face to the protagonists who rotate in and around the world of food and beverage and to their philosophy, whether they live in industry or are traced back to agriculture and services. It will be a fascinating journey that will accompany the reader in the discovery of a territory that is still to be explored in many ways and that can reserve considerable surprises.
On this journey we meet the greats from time to time Italian chefs, starred or who soon aspire to become one, to whom we asked to give our readers a "Signature Recipe" designed to combine quality and preparation time. Of each wine we talk about, from the most prestigious to those within everyone's reach, but always with an eye to the right quality/price ratio, we also tell the story behind it, proposing its best pairings. Traveling around Italy we go to the discovery of small and large jewels of our food and wine and agri-food heritage, suggesting from time to time alongside its history also where to go for a targeted purchase. Under the heading "Protagonists" we pay homage to those who have contributed to the growth of our country's food and wine and agri-food culture and to give it added value, from the Chefs to the oenologists, By entrepreneurs to farmers, from technicians to experts, in some cases unknown to most but without whom today we would not have reached the levels of excellence that are recognized throughout the world.
But we also give ample space to companies and companies more typical productions, with Focus on the economic scenarios and industrial and agricultural strategies, major interviews, news of Made in Italy and its trend in the world, focusing the spotlight on the entire production chain and not only on its final expression, in a backward journey that from consumption and distribution it goes back to the food industry and to the reality of the countryside and crops that make our agriculture great, just as the entire agro-food production system of our country is great. Ours is certainly a bet but once again we are convinced that, even in the jungle of the web, doing quality information it may seem against the trend, but it is not heresy at all.
congratulations on the quality of your portal from a producer and reader..
Thanks, glad to be helpful