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Milan Wine Week, here's what we can expect from the 2020 edition – Italian Cuisine

Digitization and internationalization will be the keywords of the event, scheduled for October 3 to 11

"If reality changes, we must change too." There Milan Wine Week does not give up on coronavirus, and through the words of President Federico Gordini it presents itself in its new guise 2020. More international and at the same time much, much more digital. The global health emergency, on the other hand, has forced us to review the plans of the now well-known Milanese event dedicated to the world of wine, now in its third edition: and so from 3 to 11 October the glasses will rise from Lombardy to the United States, passing through China and Russia, shortening distances in complete safety thanks to the help of technology. "Milan Wine Week first decided to take up this challenge by transforming a gap into an opportunity to carry out a system project increasingly at the service of the wine world and its supply chain", underlines Gordini. «During the lockdown we therefore decided to question ourselves to build something revolutionary and appropriate to current times; and to be able, if possible, to organize an even bigger, important and international event in compliance with the strict regulations imposed by the emergency ".

Milan raises the glass, the world responds

All this will happen thanks to an innovative platform that will allow Italy to connect with the ten international offices in London, Monaco, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, San Francisco, Miami and Toronto, where international buyers and press they will be able to discover virtual stands of the Italian companies hosted in the Wine Networking Hub and participate in specials Digital Tasting, to simultaneously taste the wines even thousands and thousands of kilometers away. In Milan, meanwhile, a varied agenda of meetings and seminars is scheduled, dotted with master classes, tastings, walk-around tasting, forums and many other initiatives, always dedicated to the world of wine. To combine digital and physical in a great event that will have its roots in the headquarters of Palazzo Bovara, but which has the intention of becoming a widespread event also extending to the rest of the Milanese capital.

A party for the neighborhoods

Trusting in a progressive improvement of the health situation, in fact, the Milan Wine Week aims to involve the city through the institution of Wine Districts, real partnerships between the different districts, with their circuit of bars, restaurants and wine bars, and the various Protection consortia of Italian wines. For the entire week in which the district will be fully branded with the Consortium livery, it will be possible to participate in special events such as aperitifs, dinners, tastings: the goal of the 2020 edition will be to further involve the activities related to Restaurants and the administration of wines, to give new life to a sector particularly affected by the last months of the pandemic. Hundreds of Milanese clubs and restaurants, in this sense, will personally participate in the event, offering thematic menus and tasting itineraries with a combination of food and wine.

The meetings of Pride Week

In short, Milan Wine Week intends to inaugurate a new season of events for the Milanese metropolis, ready to start again in complete safety also thanks to the new digital vocation discovered in the darkest weeks of the quarantine. Waiting for October, however, a first virtual toast can already be made from 19 to 28 June, on the occasion of the Milan Pride Week: the week of LGBT + pride will see a special series of WineTelling, real in-depth aperitifs that will be held in several friendly places in the Lombard capital, and which will be broadcast live on the Milan Wine Week Instagram profile. The goal, in this case, will be to combine the discovery of wines and their territorial variations in a journey of love and respect for diversity.

Agriristoro in Milan, from T'imo aromatic lunch in a farmhouse – Italian Cuisine

The first agriristoro in Milan is called T'imo, is located inside Cascina Sant'Ambrogio and is perfect for an (aromatic) lunch in the company of friends

Between Ortica and Forlanini, he was born a few days ago Thyme. The first agriristoro of Milan it is located inside the urban farm of CasciNet, in the Cavriana district. The mirrored buildings in the 80s style remain in the background together with the gasometer, symbols of the past of a city far from the center, but highly productive, under which today the greenery and the sounds of the countryside dominate. Why agriristoro not a bar or restaurant? Because it is a place where you don't just go to eat, but also to refresh yourself, rest, relax. And because what you taste is partly produced in the Food Forest surrounding Cascina Sant’Ambrogio, especially the aromatic herbs, the same that resonate in the name.

Agriristoro in the city perfect for a lunch with friends

As you "follow the path", you have the feeling of having arrived at a friend's house or of having happened in the middle of a peasant party, of those that perhaps are no longer so easily found even in the countryside. If you feel lost, let yourself be guided by music. If you have to decide how to go, choose the bicycle: the pleasure of sitting in the shade of a fig tree will be greater. If you love yoga, plan your visit in conjunction with one of the many activities that populate the summer calendar. If you reunite with friends you haven't seen for a long time, this is the ideal place for a nice table.

What is a Food Forest (and why is it important to know)?

If you wondered what one is Food Forest, the answer is simpler than you can imagine: it is an ecosystem of trees, shrubs with small fruits, medicinal herbs, water, bees, insects, small structures made with natural materials. A forest developed following the principles of permaculture that the boys of CasciNet have chosen as an option to regenerate a semi-abandoned space in the city.

Agriristoro, for CasciNet T’imo point of arrival and not of departure

Cascinet it was born as a non-profit association to generate an environment in which culture, community and agriculture are in synergy. The Social Enterprise Agricultural Society was then set up alongside the association. The agriristoro is the result of a path that did not aim to inaugurate a restaurant, but the desire to build a meeting point with deep historical roots for Milan (although it may seem strange, Milan has always been a city strongly devoted to agriculture and today it is the second largest agricultural municipality in Italy after Rome). The people who are part of it have been taking care of the building and its surroundings for several years now. Among the various projects, in addition to the Food Forest and the Agriristoro there are also a community garden of gardeners, theKindergarten in the woods and a shared apiary.

Timo in Cascina Sant’Ambrogio

From monastery to farmstead, the Cascina Sant’Ambrogio has a thousand-year history. Over time it has hosted nuns and farmers, families and migrants. Never abandoned, at the beginning of 2000 agricultural activities stopped and the farmhouse began to suffer from a lack of new energy so, in May 2012, ten young Milanese, including the grandson of a historic inhabitant, began to clean up and open the farm spaces to the public: the farmyard, the portico, the former barn. The same where today you can come for lunch in the shade of some sails hoisted like umbrellas or tree branches (from 12.00 to 14.30). From 18 to 22.30 it is the time of the aperitif, except on Friday because that is the day of the social dinner (at the moment, to avoid gatherings, it is always necessary to book).

Aromatic lunch is served

At T’imo the aromatic lunch is made with seasonal ingredients and enhanced by the selection of smells that come directly from the garden: savory, santolina, lovage, orange thyme, tarragon and many others. You will compose the dishes, choosing a carbohydrate (Carnaroli Classico rice from Cascina Battivacco), two seasonal vegetables, and two proteins (there is also the vegetarian option). As an aperitif, together with craft beer or cocktails, you can order mixed saucers with tastings from the garden and from the farm or stuffed sandwiches made with a crispy homemade bread outside but soft inside, perfect for absorbing the moods of its ingredients. Those who participate in the social dinner (a "good" way to support CasciNet's activities) are offered vegetarian dishes with vegetables from the Vitalba farm or from the Vettabbia fields grown directly by the members. As for animal raw materials, they want to let people know that they come exclusively from ethical farms.

#OggiDelivery: the Apulian orecchiette in Milan – Italian Cuisine

The legendary orecchiette of the Torcinelli Brothers are ready to cheer the Milanese. The touch of class? The meat of the sauce comes from the Premiata Macelleria Santoro di Cisternino!

"We opened Fratelli Torcinelli less than a year ago and the takeaway was only one of the methods of administration contemplated; a fundamental element on which we focused our offer was (and will be) the welcome and the smile. With the advent of the health emergency, we ran into the need to necessarily change our work, looking for ways that would allow us to get customers not only products, but also our warmth. We could not improvise the takeaway and home deliveries, not without first having planned everything and this is the reason why we did not start immediately, but we waited weeks and remodeled the offer, in a way enriching it. As usual
choice of meats (already cooked for takeaway or to finish cooking at home for those delivered under vacuum) the specialties were added, which at the moment are Le orecchiette with meat sauce and Le frize, dishes that will increase and change, with the succession of days and the seasonal offer "tell us the three founding members Pietro Caroli, Vincenzo Critelli and Sebastiano Corno.

«We also added a selection of wines made by Pietro to the dishes, which will often vary to allow regular customers to order different labels. With the Orecchiette we suggest you to sip Tenute Rubino's Negroamaro. We want to stay deliberately in the Apulian territory, for a wine with soft hints of red fruit and distinctly spicy, characteristic of the grape .

#Oggidelivery: Apulian orecchiette with meat sauce

The difference in this proposal is the absolute attention to raw materials, without compromise. The orecchiette are produced by Ligorio pasta factory in San Vito dei Normanni in the province of Brindisi, a family business from the Alto Salento that uses flours from Italian and specifically Apulian wheat. The sauce that accompanies them, delivered under vacuum as shown in the photo, is prepared by Sebastiano in the Fratelli Torcinelli kitchens with a tomato grown organically in Campania and a beef pulp and capocollo of black Nebrodi pig from the Sicilian farm Fattoria San Pio, where the pigs are raised and slaughtered in compliance with a very short and controlled supply chain.
This splendid dish of Apulian orecchiette with meat sauce is ready in just 5 minutes!