I love to cook Italian for friends and family but cooking Italian abroad can be a complicated experience. It’s not always that easy to find the Italian products you need, and if you don’t find them you can totally change the final result. Products Made in Italy have a unique flavor, texture and aroma that are impossible to replicate, you can not export our sun, soil, water, passion and the experience that make our products known and appreciated world wide.

I still remember my first experience cooking Italian abroad. I was in China at that time attending an intensive Chinese language course. We, I was with two Italian friends, were asked to prepare an Italian dish and we chose to cook pasta. We took the train and after a 4 hours trip we were in Beijing to buy the ingredients; pasta, canned tomatoes and olive oil (the extra virgin one wasn’t available) to prepare our dish, at that time was impossible to find Parmigiano Reggiano. We prepared a simple tomato sauce, sauteed onions then canned tomatoes and to give an extra touch to the sauce we spiced the sauce up with a little bit of red hot pepper. Continue reading →