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Food
Carpaccio
In 1950, when Giuseppe Cipriani, the owner of famous Venetian Harry’s Bar, was hearkening to countess Amalia Nani Mocenigo’s crying, whose personal doctor had forbidden her eating cooked meat, he, Giuseppe Cipriani, might hardly suppose that the dish he invented would become a real Italian classic in a couple of years...
Pizza
There is no sense neither in trying to find the time when the first Pizza appeared nor the name of its author. The evolution of Pizza was quite a long and many Mediterranean cultures contributed to it...
Pesto
You can hardly find those among gourmets and connoisseurs of Italian cuisine who have not tasted the sauce Pesto...
Wine, etc.
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La Val d'Illasi, a zone in the east of Verona, doesn’t have the honour of belonging to the Amarone Classico territory (which includes Negrar, Fumane and Novare). However, thanks to only one person, the paradigm of superiority of Classico over Normale has been resolutely revised...