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Food Forest, in Milan the forest that feeds us – Italian Cuisine

It will be born inside the Parco Nord Milano with two thousand trees that produce flowers, fruits and berries to eat and cook

Stroll in a forest, observe the species of plants and shrubs, collect berries and fruits to eat and then find out how to use them in the kitchen. It might seem like an image very far from the city but instead it is an experience that we will be able to live in a few years Milan. Within the North Parkin fact, everything is ready to be born an edible forest of 10 thousand square meters with trees that produce edible fruit for humans or fauna.

Food Forest, a forest to eat

Food Forest is a project born from the collaboration between the public body North Milan Park ed Etifor, a spin-off of the University of Padua that deals with the development of services and products for the enhancement of nature: "The aim of the project is above all educational", explained Riccardo Gini, director of the park. "People can recognize trees and shrubs that produce fruits and berries that they normally eat, so they can appreciate them when they find them in the spontaneous woods in the plains and in the countryside."

From the forest to the kitchen

Jujube, pomegranate, mulberry, Japan goumi, azarole, medlar, Rosehip, hawthorn, buckthorn, FIG, elder, blackthorn, wild pear, cherry, wild apple, lime, oak, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, core, maple: the species selected for the project are all indigenous or well integrated into the territory. The first plantings will take place next November and in two to four years the forest will begin to be productive. Access will not be free, but will take place through public events and organized visits: the didactic itineraries, different according to the season, will lead to the discovery of the characteristics of the plants with indications on how to use flowers, fruits and berries in the kitchen. And, in this regard, the organization of tastings and cooking classes.

Adopt a tree

Anyone can contribute to the birth of the forest adopting a tree: just go to the site WOWNature, choose a tree of your favorite species and pay your contribution. The project is also supported by initiatives such as that of the restaurants specializing in natural cuisine That’s Steam: 50% of the proceeds from vegetarian dishes consumed during Green Saturdays, or on Saturdays of the year starting from last July, it will be donated to support the forestation project.

Some curiosities

The plants of the Food Forest give us many curiosities and anecdotes. Here are some about the lesser known species.

The blackthorn
In spring, its buds turn white, creating very easy to spot white “clouds” on the edge of fields and meadows. From the infusion of the berries, the Bargnolino liqueur, typical of the Piacenza area.
An average blackthorn captures 7 kg of CO₂in a year, equal to 40.3 km traveled by car.

Hawthorn
It is characterized by white flowers and small thorns; the former loved by bees and the latter hated by birds, greedy for its berries. Hawthorn has become quite rare but, in the past, it has shone with great fame: known as the plant of the heart, Was highly regarded for the cardioprotective and cardiotonic properties of leaves and flowers.
An average hawthorn captures 7 kg of CO₂in a year, equal to 40.3 km traveled by car.

The zero
It produces whitish-red fruits, very popular in Renaissance tables! When eaten fresh, they are thirst-quenching, refreshing, with a taste similar to that of apples or medlars and rich in vitamin A! The azerole was often planted in rows along country roads and on farms. An average bluer captures 7 kg of CO2 in a year, equal to 40.3 km traveled by car.

Milan Wine Week and then …: the food and wine events of October – Italian Cuisine

From the Milanese wine week to the mills opened in Umbria through the organic fair, here are the events not to be missed this month

Still many events scheduled for this October have been postponed due COVID-19, but just as many have been rethought in a new key and confirmed ensuring the safety of the participants. Here's what awaits us this month.

Milan Wine Week, the Milanese wine week

Third edition for Milan Wine Week, a Milanese wine event, which this year will be held in the city from 3 to 11 October. The event was rethought in compliance with the limitations useful for countering the coronavirus pandemic through the keywords digitization and internationalization. In addition to the usual busy agenda of meetings and seminars, masterclasses, tastings, walk-around tastings, forums, hundreds of Milanese bars and restaurants will propose particular wine pairings with their offer, both within the facilities and using the delivery services with thematic menus that include a bottle of accompanying wine. Moreover, thanks to the great success achieved during the lockdown period, the Winetelling, digital tastings, led by producers and sector experts, dedicated to wine lovers, connected remotely through the dedicated platform and the social pages of the event will continue. At the MWW Enoteca, an innovative physical wine shop included in theheadquarter of Palazzo Bovara and, at the same time, an e-commerce platform that will allow the public to taste and buy a wide selection of the wines featured in Milan Wine Week.

The grape harvest in the city

Come back from 5 to 11 October in Milan the appointment with The Montenapoleone harvest: from via Montenapoleone to via Sant’Andrea, from via Santo Spirito to via Gesù, from via Bagutta to via San Pietro all’Orto, the Milanese fashion district it will come alive throughout the week with wine tastings from prestigious national and international wineries and exclusive events in luxury boutiques. Moreover, every day, the restaurants of 5-star luxury hotels such as Armani, Bulgari, Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, Westin Palace, Park Hyatt, Principe di Savoia, as well as Pasticceria Marchesi, Pasticceria Cova and illy Caffé will offer a special La Vendemmia menu at price of 35 euros for lunch and 70 euros for dinner. Guided tours will be offered again with final tastings inside some museum sites in the heart of Milan: the first was on Tuesday 6 October at the Gallerie D’Italia with a focus on the masterpieces of Canova, Hayez and Boccioni; the second at the Casa del Manzoni, Wednesday 7 to discover the intimacy of Alessandro Manzoni's home. Double appointment on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum to discover the anecdotes of the Family and participate in a sensorial tasting. Among the other scheduled activities, the Winery tours with the possibility of visiting some Italian wineries located in the most evocative places of the peninsula.

Six months of Terra Madre from Turin to the world

Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, An event dedicated to good, clean and fair food, organized by Slow Food, the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region with the patronage of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies and the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of the Land and the Sea, is back on 8 October in Turin and on the web. The 2020 edition will not last five days as usual, but a full six months: the event will in fact close in April 2021 when the International Slow Food Congress will be celebrated in Turin. To reach as many people as possible in the world, the contents of the event will be available on the event website and will be free, accessible to anyone and subtitled in English and Italian.

Sana: fully organic

Also in 2020 the organic world will meet at Bologna Fairs on the occasion of Healthy, the international exhibition of organic and natural products to be held this year from 9 to 11 October. The three pillars around which the event revolves, Food, Care & Beauty, Green Lifestyle, in this edition is added the new focus "Free from hub", the showcase dedicated to products that are not only natural and organic, but also free from. Other novelties of the edition will be "The way of herbs", the initiative dedicated to medicinal plants and spices and SANA Organic Tea dedicated to all tea lovers.

Golosaria online

From 28 October to 2 November Golosaria returns with an online edition of the fair entitled Food as a new relationship. A schedule full of events and live chats to take part in the event, passing from artisan stands to chefs' stations, from training rooms to direct purchases of products selected by ilGolosario thanks to a dedicated e-commerce area. There will be space for wine with the presentation (scheduled for November 1) of the 100 best wineries in Italy selected by Paolo Massobrio together with Marco Gatti and tutorials for tasting. On November 2, the Agora of Golosaria will be transformed into the Piazza of the great Italian restaurants, with the best Italian restaurants of the IlGolosario guide awarded by Massobrio and Gatti, followed by a talk dedicated to the "general states" of Italian catering.

Mills opened in Umbria

For the 23rd year Open Crushers in Umbria celebrates the arrival of the new extra virgin olive oil in the period of pressing of the olives: from 24 October to 29 November it will be possible to visit the oil mills of the region with the possibility of buying oil directly on site. During the event it will also be possible to participate in initiatives in places that are generally not open to visitors, such as ancient villas, abbeys among olive trees, small abandoned churches, experiencing food and wine, artistic, musical, cultural and naturalistic experiences.

All the pizzas of Italy at Eataly

From 9 to 18 October the stores Eataly host a big party where you can taste all the pizzas of Italy every day, starting from Pizza Eataly up to explore the many variations, from the one to the shovel to the pizza to the pan, from the Genoese to the Bari focaccia, from the farinata to the Ligurian focaccia with cheese . Ten days to discover the traditions and novelties of the pizza world, from north to south. TO Milanin particular, among the guests there will be Ciro Salvo, patron of the pizzeria 50 Kalò and ambassador of Neapolitan pizza in the world for Slow Food, and the award-winning Salvo brothers of San Giorgio a Cremano.

Thanksgiving in Merano

October 17th and 18th there Grape festival to Merano it will contain many cultural and traditional initiatives linked to thanksgiving for the gift of the harvest. The program includes an exhibition of allegorical floats, concerts by marching bands, the Kurhaus walk to admire the saltari (the people who defended the ripe grapes from thieves) and the Jodel walk where everyone will be invited to participate in this typical song of the German Alpine area. There will be masterclasses dedicated to wine with walks in the vineyards or in the city that will end with tastings and the Meranese Market with its rich offer of natural and artisanal South Tyrolean products. Do not go away without tasting the MerKur sweet bread created for the Grape Festival which contains the authentic healing grape from Merano.

Milan Wine Week 2020: the events not to be missed – Italian Cuisine

The third edition of Milan Wine Week starts from 3 to 11 October, with many experiences to be enjoyed in total safety (from this year, even digitally from all over the world). Here is a selection of some of the best events on the calendar

Milan becomes the international capital of wine with 7 networked cities and simultaneous global events. This year Milan Wine Week expands physical events and makes them usable both live and digitally, through the platform Digital Wine Fair, thanks to which professionals and international buyers will be able to connect live from all over the world to participate in the various initiatives.

"This year's Milan Wine Week – he declares Federico Gordini, President of Milan Wine Week – is the result of a great work of change, innovation and questioning which, in recent months, has involved our team, our partners and the companies and consortia that support us. The result will be an event totally adapted to the new scenarios, with obvious differences compared to the past, but full of innovations that will allow it to grow also in this 2020, giving life, if possible, to an even bigger, more important and international event. albeit in compliance with the strict regulations imposed by the health emergency .

The unmissable events of the Milan Wine Week 2020

Easter Wines

Tuesday 6 October, at 11.30 the masterclass will be held at Palazzo Bovara "Cecilia Beretta, the feminine gaze on Valpolicella". The line of wines from Valpolicella branded Easter Wines, which sees an all-female team at work supervised by a prominent figure in the Italian viticulture scene such as Graziana Grassini, will present on site and in streaming some iconic labels protagonists of a "restyling" curated by the winemaker student of Giacomo Tachis.

To guide the tasting the same Graziana Grassini, assisted by Carlo Olivari, Easter Wines winemaker. The masterclass will also be an opportunity to illustrate the project developed by the winery which, inspired by the iconic figure of Cecilia Beretta, wanted to pay homage to 33 women who have changed the rules of the game in the world of innovation. An initiative carried out both on a graphic level, through the labels designed by the eclectic illustrator Clorophilia, and on the pages of the Wired magazine, where their knowledge and female empowerment are promoted.

Those who want to connect online to the masterclass will be able to buy the labels that are the protagonists of the tasting both on the Easter Vini online shop and on that of La Sartoria del Vino.

Wednesday 7 October also at Palazzo Bovara, in the Sala Castiglioni at 16.00-17.15, Easter Vini turns its gaze abroad, with the masterclass in English "Challenging the wines of Valpolicella – an international approach to tasting Italian wines”: The speaker Alessandro Torcoli, director of the magazine Civiltà del Bere, will make a journey to discover the different personalities of native and international grape varieties in an increasingly globalized world. Also for this appointment, the possibility to participate both in person and online through the digital platform of Milan Wine Week.

Thursday 8th October Pasqua Vini will be the protagonist of an event widespread in Milan and its province, which will involve six restaurants (A ’Riccione, The Brisket, Drogheria Milanese, Antica Osteria Magenes, Osteria Dal Verme, Bottega Valtellina 18) served by Pasqua Vini. The chefs will propose a special combination by creating a dish to perfectly accompany a glass of some of the labels of the Veronese winery.

Consortium for the protection of Asti and Moscato d'Asti Docg

Virtual meetings, but also garrison of the city, thanks to the presence of the Consortium in Wine District of the Arco della Pace – Sempione area with the involvement of wine bars linked to the culture of good drinking and historical places for the iconic Milanese aperitif.

In the center, in Corso Vittorio Emanuele, the Consortium will be among the protagonists of the exhibition The Winers, set up in the days of the festival.

The October 10 it is then the turn of Walk around tasting, an initiative that will animate the spaces of the very central Babila Building, in Corso Venezia overlooking Piazza San Babila. From 15 to 19 there will be tasting meetings of the wines produced by the companies that are part of the Consortium for the protection of Asti and Moscato d'Asti Docg and moments of entertainment with the live cooking of the histrionic chef Alessandro Borghese, ambassador of the Consortium in a communication campaign that enhances the territory and its wine excellences.

Montelvini

The first appointment with the Venetian winery will be held Tuesday 6 October, at 2.00 pm, with "The symphony of wine: homage to Ennio Morricone", A wine and music tasting in the Castiglioni Room of Palazzo Bovara led by the sound sommelier Paolo Scarpellini and the CEO of the winery, Alberto Serena. It is a tribute to the late Maestro Morricone who will revolve around a unique combination of three wines and as many musical pieces. Among these, there will be the famous soundtrack of "The good, the ugly, the bad" by the Roman composer in a perfect match with "Il Brutto", the Asolo Prosecco Superiore DOCG Sui Lieviti signed by Montelvini.

On the same day of Tuesday 6 October Montelvini will be in connection with New York (7.00 pm Italian time) for the international digital tasting entitled "Asolo calling". The masterclass, in English, will be the opportunity for the company to present the top-of-the-range wines from the Serenitatis Collection to the US market: Asolo Prosecco Superiore DOCG in the Extra Brut, Brut and Extra Dry versions.
Participants will be located partly in the headquarters of Palazzo Bovara, in Corso Venezia, and partly in a New York location and everyone will be able to taste Montelvini wines at the same time, led by Gianni Zucchetto and Davide Zanette, both export area managers of the company.

Following, Wednesday 7 October a circuit of 6 premises based in the Milan area will be activated, including [Bu:r] of the chef Eugenio Boer, the cocktail bar restaurant Alchemy and the wine shop The Blind, which will offer various tasting and wine pairing activities with Montelvini products. For the duration of the evening, the Venetian winery, which has recently renewed its support for the FAI as a Corporate Golden Donor, will provide a series of free tickets that will allow holders to visit some assets of the Environment Fund for free.
On the occasion of the Milan Wine Week, a percentage of the sale of all the bottles with the owl label will be donated to "Remember to save Italy”, A fundraiser launched by the FAI and intended to support institutional activities for the protection and enhancement of the Italian cultural and landscape heritage.

Berlucchi

The 3-4-10 and 11 October at 11:00 or 16:00 you will have the opportunity to discover the historic cellar where the first Franciacorta was born, with a special Wine Tour. Access: Info | reservation: berlucchi.it

Tuesday 6 and Wednesday 7 October awaits you there Masterclass Bubbles with Berlucchi Franciacorta. The history of Franciacorta told through the wines of the pioneer cellar of the area. The tasting of the most iconic Franciacortas of Guido Berlucchi – '61 Brut, '61 Rosé and '61 Nature 2012 – will be led by Arturo Ziliani – CEO and winemaker of the company. In connection with New York (US). Access by invitation

Altemasi

Friday October 9th at 4.30pm style Altemasi meets the kitchen of Daniel Canzian with an event of Wine Pairing not to be missed: a synergy where values such as territory, sustainability and innovation will be the protagonists of a special event. Access by invitation.

Valdo

Saturday 10 October at 2.00 pm a masterclass will be held with Valdo, historic winery owned by the Bolla family, was founded in 1926 in Valdobbiadene, the heart of the production of Prosecco Superiore DOCG. The oenologist Gianfranco Zanon, through a selection of Valdobbiadene DOCG sparkling wines, will tell about this constantly changing territory between respect for tradition and innovation. Reservation on milanowineweek.com