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Eat pizza or burger and pay in vinyl – Italian Cuisine


From Melloo, in Florence, the Vinyl Coin project was born. The bill is paid with your vinyl. In addition to listening to them in the restaurant, thanks to an on-site evaluation, they can be traded for dinner. Only limitation: the musical genre

There Black Music changed the life of Massimo Mauceri. "Matter of vibrations," he says. For all its existence, the pizza maker of Calabrian origins, who landed in Florence after long Roman years, has been divided between music studios, DJ consoles and the world of catering. Now on the premises of his Melloo, in Florence, has found a way to merge his two passions: the music and the kitchen. Here, in addition to listening to one of the records of his collection, customers can pay for dinner by exchanging their vinyls.

Vinyl Coin

The initiative is called Vinyl Coin and is only accessed if, at the time of booking through the portal Melloo the wording is inserted in the notes vinylcoin. We present ourselves with one or more used records, we have dinner choosing between pizzas or sandwiches such as the coveted Jamaican jerk, and then, before paying, we evaluate the vinyls with the staff. "We use an impartial classification system, linked to the Discogs.com site, also exposed on the walls, which takes into consideration the state of the vinyl and the cover, as well as the rarity of the album", explains Mauceri. The value of the discs is then discounted from dinner, up to total gratuity. There is also the possibility that the disc may be worth even more than its consumption: in those cases, vouchers would be issued to spend in the future in the room. "But it is difficult for someone to get rid of a precious disc in exchange for a pizza," adds Mauceri, a true collector. But, be careful: if you want to experiment with the vinyl coin formula, leave Baglioni's albums and Edoardo Vianello's 45 rpm collection at home. The only restrictions to be subject to the Melloo concern musical genres. "We accept everything that is Black Music and its derivatives, such as R&B, reggae, hip hop. If it is not a genre that interests us, we leave it to the client, unless the record has a story .

Vinyl Coin

Passion and barter

The Vinyl Coin project started on June 20. In the first three days of the initiative, the Melloo collection was enriched with 25 specimens, but more than 200 titles were evaluated. "The idea of ​​charging a dinner with vinyl came to me during the lockdown. We were closed from 10 to 19 March, then I left with delivery. When I opened the venue last year, I wanted to put the records on as the identity element of the venue. Having a DJ experience, it came naturally to me. But to do a different thing, I decided to let people choose what to play. You can choose from my archive and listen to music in the restaurant. I have always bought records, but after the lockdown this natural act had become a luxury. So I thought maybe there was someone who wanted to get rid of them. " So why not swap them for a pizza or a burger?

During the first Vinyl Coin weekend, a lot of people who wanted to exchange records for dinner arrived. Two girls with 50 vinyl records, but none that interested the owner. But something new has entered: an original print of the Blues Brothers soundtrack, a Michael Jackson record, something of hip hop. Currently the average rating of the discs evaluated is around 2 euros. But Mauceri's satisfaction lies in something else. «I see 20-year-old boys, who have never seen vinyl, come in and be amazed. Or parents who come to take away, with young children in tow, who look at records and equipment (very serious, of course) as something similar to the gramophone ".

Along with a good record, there is no shortage of dishes not to be missed. Among the pizzas, there is the much desired Piennolo Gold, a reinterpretation of Naples with yellow tomato pacchetelle, buffalo mozzarella, added raw burrata and Cantabrian anchovies. Among the sandwiches, the Jamaican Jerk is very strong, a typical street food in the country where Mauceri would immediately take refuge, made with boned thighs and overcoats, marinated in soy sauce, lime, a mixture of spices including Jamaican allspice, cumin pepper and coriander , spicy sauce, then grilled and placed in the sandwich with cabbage and carrots, caesar sauce and chilli sauce. Two cymbals that, along with vinyls, sound damn good.

Text by Stefania Leo

New Coke returns to the shelves to pay homage to Stranger Things 3 – Italian Cuisine

New Coke returns to the shelves to pay homage to Stranger Things 3


In 1985, the Atlanta giant proposed it on the market instead of the traditional Coca Cola (but consumers didn't want to know). Today we try again with a limited edition

It remained on the market only 79 days, before the Coca Cola Company hastened to withdraw it from the shelves. It was 1985. Today (May 24, 2019) New Coke, the drink that the giant from Atlanta thought (making a big miscalculation) of replacing the classic Coca Cola, returns to the market.

Tribute to the TV series

But only for a little while: the limited edition is a tribute to Stranger Things 3, which will arrive in the summer, on 4 July, up Netflix. The third season of the series, in fact, is set exactly thirty-four years ago, just when the new drink was proposed on the market. Then the consumers did not take it well: they protested by organizing real public demonstrations and tried to storm the supermarkets to grab the traditional Coca Cola and stuff crates on crates in the cellar. As the company admits on its site, it was the first time that the new drink formula was changed in 99 years, and that bankruptcy proposal had "generated an anxiety never before seen by consumers".

But the Atlanta leaders decided to try again. The vice president of marketing for Coca-Cola North America, Stuart Kronauge, at CNN, explained that this campaign is a way of "not taking ourselves too seriously".

After the announcement, the fans, on social media, seemed a bit skeptical: "New Coke was terrible, one of the biggest mistakes the company has ever made," one user wrote. Another: "It was disgusting even then. Why should it be good now? " But someone else assures that he will try that much-mistreated drink: "I'll buy it and I will pretend to be in 1985.

I wonder if, on his return to the supermarket shelves, the New Coke, brought back to life for us to go back in time and hear everyone a bit of a Hawkins, will be more successful. On the other hand, «One summer could change everything.

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Do you give food to the poor? You will pay less tax – Italian Cuisine

Do you give food to the poor? You will pay less tax


A municipality in Valle d'Aosta decided it: the discount is reserved for commercial and productive activities that give food to associations that deal with needy people for at least twice a year.

Do you give food to the poor? You will receive one discount on the waste tax. It provides for the change to the regulation of the Tari that was approved in recent days by the municipal administration of Pont-Saint-Martin, municipality of Valle d'Aosta.

A nice idea

It was the deputy mayor Fabio Badery, councilor with responsibility for social policies, to present the proposal, which then is nothing more than a national standard which provides for the application of a 'rate reduction coefficient' for commercial and production activities who produce or distribute food and "that for free give, directly or indirectly, such food goods to the needy and to people in greater need or to animal feed". And that therefore, at the same time, they also reduce waste of food.

In order to receive a refund (which may vary depending on the amount of food donated to the charity), the activities will have to donate for at least twice, to associations that deal with people in need or animals in difficulty, more than 50 kilos of food and submit, by 30 April of the following year, a simple card request, with the attestation, filled in by the donor bodies, indicating the quantity of food given as gifts.

The Municipality will apply the reduction of the waste tax (about 20%) or reimbursement directly to the donor's current account. A truly linear and fast procedure. «The limits are deliberately reduced and the particularly streamlined bureaucratic part to allow access to this recognition to all the activities concerned, "explains the municipal administration. «Even those of small size and therefore less structured.

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