Like many Italian-Canadians, the Germano clan still makes its own homemade tomato sauce for canning. An easy recipe using simple ingredients: ripe tomatoes and fresh basil leaves. This year, they managed to process 60 bushels of tomatoes… Have you done yours yet? Have a look…
How is the food nowadays in the city of the Mole? Good, very good, according to food critic, Luca Iaccarino, editor of the guide I cento, published by EDT, which compiles a yearly list of Torino’s best restaurants and trattorias. “Eating out in the city of the Mole has never been this good,” he explains.
The Early Years
Società Anonima Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili was born on July 11, 1889 at Palazzo Bricherasio, in Turin, with a start-up capital of 800,000 lire and the plan to build a factory on Corso Dante. The scale of the project made it a very different proposition from the dusty workshops operated by the many pioneers of this new mode of locomotion. Shortly after, Torino was added to Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili, giving rise to the trade name F.I.A.T. Among the signatories of the company’s “birth certificate” were Lodovico Scarfiotti, Giovanni Agnelli and Vicenzo Lancia. The Agnelli family is still the major shareholder of Fiat while Lancia went on to create his own company, now owned by Fiat.
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When discussing food from Torino we would be remiss if we did not mention the historical cafés and cake shops, a tradition deeply rooted in the city’s culture. What follows is a short list compiled with the help of baker Claudia Lotta.
If there was a time not too far back when crossing paths with a tourist in the streets of Torino was comparable to unearthing some treasure chest, nowadays it’s become routine for Torinesi to act as tourist guides. You can see men and women pointing to various beautiful landmarks of their city for relatives and friends coming from Italy and abroad. Parallel to the city’s growing tourism appeal, there has been a recent surge of cultural activity. So much so that it is not always simple to choose which sights to visit, especially when one has a day or two on his hands. To compile a list of things to do and places to see in Torino, we asked professional guides Francesca Stagni (of the Bogianen Guide http://bit.ly/1ZUyMH6) and Fransceca Camporeal (of Visit Torino www.visittorino.it) to provide us with their wisdom.
