"founding, Bel has supported artists such as illustrators Benjamin Rabier, who designed the Laughing Cow, Francisque Poulbot, known for his iconic drawings of Parisian children, and celebrated animator Paul Grimault. Bel sponsors a museum dedicated to its legendary cow – La Maison de La vache qui rit (The Laughing Cow Museum), in Lons-le-Saunier – which also houses special events hosted by Lab’Bel. Bel Group The Bel Group (a.k.a. Groupe Bel or Fromageries Bel in French) is a multinational cheese marketer centered in France. The Bel Group is headquartered at 2 allée de Longchamp in Suresnes (Paris). It manufactures and distributes"
"Festival (animation and special effects),""Il Cinema Ritrovato""(film festival about rare and forgotten movies), Live Arts Week, Gender Bender (festival on gender identity, sexual orientation and body representation), Homework festival (electronic music festival), Human Rights Film Festival, Some Prefer Cake (lesbian film festival), Zecchino d'Oro (a children's song contest). Bologna is renowned for its culinary tradition. It has baptised the famous Bolognese sauce, a meat-based pasta sauce that in Italy is called ""ragù"" and is substantially different from the variety found worldwide; moreover, in Bologna the sauce is used only as a dressing for tagliatelle, serving it with spaghetti being considered"
"Bella Italia Bella Italia (formerly known as Bella Pasta) is a chain of over 90 restaurants offering dishes inspired by Italian cuisine in the United Kingdom. The chain is part of the Casual Dining Group, who also own Café Rouge and Las Iguanas. Bella Italia started life as two small restaurant chains - Pastificio and Pizzaland - which were part of the Grand Metropolitan group. In 1990, Michael Guthrie (former Chairman of Mecca Leisure Group) formed BrightReasons and bought the Pizzaland and Pastificio chains from Grand Metropolitan for £20m in February 1991, rebranding Pastificio to Bella Pasta in the process."
"the chain received the worst rating of all restaurants surveyed in an assessment of the sustainability of its seafood. In June 2012, Bella Italia began officially supporting The Children's Society by donating some of the profit from a selected dish on the menu to the charity. In 2013, Bella Italia officially partnered with Comic Relief, the British charity founded in 1985 that aims to ""bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of poor and disadvantaged people."" Bella Italia Bella Italia (formerly known as Bella Pasta) is a chain of over 90 restaurants offering dishes inspired by Italian cuisine"
"Italian cuisine Italian cuisine is food typical of Italy. It has developed through centuries of social and economic changes, with roots stretching to antiquity. Significant changes occurred with the discovery of the New World and the introduction of potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, maize and sugar beet, this last introduced in quantity in the 18th century. Italian cuisine is known for its regional diversity, especially between the north and the south of the Italian peninsula. It offers an abundance of taste, and is one of the most popular and copied in the world. It influenced several cuisines around the world, chiefly"
"tartare are dishes made from diced or ground raw beef or salmon, mixed with various ingredients and served with baguettes, brioche, or frites. In Italy, carpaccio is a dish of very thinly sliced raw beef, drizzled with a vinaigrette made with olive oil. The health food movement known as raw foodism promotes a mostly vegan diet of raw fruits, vegetables, and grains prepared in various ways, including juicing, food dehydration, sprouting, and other methods of preparation that do not heat the food above . An example of a raw meat dish is ceviche, a Latin American dish made with raw"
"""Pan Siciliano"", Sicilian bread, ""Cannoli siciliano"", Sicilian cannoli, and the drink chinotto are examples of the Italian influence in Venezuelan food and beverages. Italian cuisine Italian cuisine is food typical of Italy. It has developed through centuries of social and economic changes, with roots stretching to antiquity. Significant changes occurred with the discovery of the New World and the introduction of potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, maize and sugar beet, this last introduced in quantity in the 18th century. Italian cuisine is known for its regional diversity, especially between the north and the south of the Italian peninsula. It offers an"
"or cheese. ""Cappello da prete"" is also a popular meal, which is a very fatty pig's trotter. Other dishes include ""Torta Barozzi"" or ""Torta Nera"", which is a black tart (a dessert made with a coffee/cocoa and almond filling encased in a fine pastry dough), ""Ciccioli"", made by slowly cooking, compressing, drying, and aging fatty, leftover pieces of pork, and ""Pesto modenese"", which is cured pork back fat pounded with garlic, rosemary and Parmigiano-Reggiano used to fill borlenghi and crescentine. Balsamic vinegar of Modena became a protected geographical indication under EU law in 2000. The vinegar is a condiment for"
"a variety of gelato. ""Bollito Misto con Salsa Verde"" is a specialty shared with Piedmontese and Emilian cuisines. In the Oltrepo Pavese a variety of hard doughnuts called ""Brasade'"", which originated in the tiny village of Staghiglione, is extremely popular for breakfast. A very simple pancake, known as ""Schita"" is eaten by children as a snack. The village of Varzi in the Oltrepo Pavese is renowned for its Salame, while the tiny village of Pometo is locally famous for its superb bread. Valtellina's specialties are Bresaola (air-dried salted beef) and Pizzoccheri (a flat ribbon pasta, made with 80% buckwheat flour"
"products are sausages such as Soppressa Vicentina, garlic salami, Piave cheese, and Asiago cheese. High quality vegetables are prized, such as red radicchio from Treviso and white asparagus from Bassano del Grappa. Perhaps the most popular dish of Venice is ""fegato alla veneziana"", thinly-sliced veal liver sauteed with onions. Squid and cuttlefish are common ingredients, as is squid ink, called ""nero di seppia"". Regional desserts include ""tiramisu"" (made of biscuits dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks and ""mascarpone"", and flavored with liquor and cocoa), ""baicoli"" (biscuits made with butter and vanilla), and nougat. The most"
"Bellisio Foods Bellisio Foods Incorporated (formerly Michelina's) is a diversified American frozen food manufacturer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded by food industry pioneer Jeno Paulucci in Duluth, Minnesota, the company is named after Paulucci's familial home in Italy, Bellisio Solfare. The company is now owned by Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited of Thailand. Its products are primarily sold in the United States but are also distributed in over 12 countries worldwide, which includes Canada, Australia, Russia and China. As the third-largest producer of frozen entrées in the United States, the company has a daily production capacity of over two"
"Celeste Imperio Celeste Imperio is a famous Chinese restaurant in El Salvador. It was founded in 1994 and served as one of the pillars of modern Chinese food in this small Central American country. The most attractive characteristic of this Chinese restaurant is the Chinese style façade, which resembles those of ancient Chinese palaces. To date, this is the only Chinese style façade in El Salvador. Famous dishes from this restaurant are Chow Mein, Cantonese style rice, Chop Suey and fried wantan. The flavour and style of many of the dishes were modified to suit the taste buds of Salvadorans."
"sweet, lightly sparkling, Moscato d'Asti. The region is also famous for its Vermouth and Ratafia production. Castelmagno is a prized cheese of the region. Piedmont is also famous for the quality of its Carrù beef (particularly ""bue grasso"", ""fat ox""), hence the tradition of eating raw meat seasoned with garlic oil, lemon, and salt; carpaccio; Brasato al vino, wine stew made from marinated beef; and boiled beef served with various sauces. The food most typical of the Piedmont tradition are the traditional ""agnolotti"" (pasta folded over with roast beef and vegetable stuffing), ""panissa"" (a typical dish of Vercelli, a kind"
"humble, agricultural past. Simple, hearty meals made with fresh local ingredients that reflect the province's geographical diversity. Unlike Venetian cuisine where fish reigns supreme, game meat, cheeses and vegetables take center stage accompanied by polenta, soft from the stove or day-old sliced and grilled over the fireplace embers, better yet cooked in a pan under the spit where it lightly fries in meat drippings to create a crunchy golden outer crust. Vicenza is known for its simple dishes, and often famous cheeses, fruits, ingredients and wines, such as sopressa Vicentina, Asiago cheese, Marostica cherries, Nanto truffles, Bassano asparagus and Breganze"
"Casalbeltrame Casalbeltrame (Casabaltram in Piedmontese and Lombard) is an Italian town of 962 inhabitants in the province of Novara in Piedmont. A part of the municipal territory is included in the Natural Park of the Lame del Sesia. The rice paddies of Casalbeltrame are known for the production of ""riso venere"", an unusual black rice of Chinese origins. ""Venere"" refers to Venus, the goddess of love, and to the aphrodisiac properties claimed for the rice. The variety is included in the Slow Food Atlas. Casalbeltrame borders the following municipalities: Biandrate, Casalino, Casalvolone, and San Nazzaro Sesia. Inhabitants registered Between 1884"
"Montepulciano Montepulciano () is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and ""comune"" in the Italian province of Siena in southern Tuscany. It sits high on a limestone ridge, east of Pienza, southeast of Siena, southeast of Florence, and north of Rome by car. Montepulciano is a major producer of food and drink. Renowned for its pork, cheese, ""pici"" pasta, lentils, and honey, it is known worldwide for its wine. Connoisseurs consider its Vino Nobile, which should not be confused with varietal wine merely made from the Montepulciano grape, among Italy's best. According to legend, it was founded by the Etruscan"
"Italian confectionery known as ""confetti"". These are sugar-coated almonds and are traditionally given to friends and relatives on weddings and other special occasions. Confetti can be eaten or simply used as decoration. The local artisans also colour these candies and craft them into flowers and other creations. There are two main factories in town and several shops that sell these items, the most famous of which is Confetti Mario Pelino. The city has a football team, Pro Sulmona Calcio 1921. The club is currently disbanded, last competing in the 2015-16 season in the Promozione Abruzzo, the seventh division of Italian"
"Stefano Manfredi Stefano ""Steve"" Manfredi (born 1954) is an Italian-born chef, author and leading exponent of modern Italian cuisine in Australia. He has opened and operated several restaurants in Sydney since 1983, most notably The Restaurant Manfredi and Bel Mondo (sold in 2002). Manfredi has written on food and cooking since 1988, is a regular columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, and is the author of four books; ""Fresh From Italy"" (1993), ""Bel Mondo: Beautiful World"" (2000), ""Seasonal"" (2007), and ""Seasonal Italian Favourites"" (2009). He is also the developer of coffee brand ""Espresso di Manfredi"" by Piazza d'Oro. Manfredi is"
"and vegetables. The nation abounds with restaurants and fast food establishments selling fairly cheaply. Local fruits are quite common, but raw vegetables from the markets less so. Mealtime is a communion for families and schools and some businesses close at midday for lunch, reopening later in the afternoon. Steak is also common. Punta is a popular genre of Garifuna music and has become one of the most popular kinds of music in Belize. It is distinctly Afro-Caribbean, and is sometimes said to be ready for international popularization like similarly-descended styles (reggae, calypso, merengue). Brukdown is a modern style of Belizean"
"Pastel (food) Pastel is the name given to different typical dishes invented by Chinese expats in Brazil. In Brazil, pastel (plural: ""pastéis"") is a typical fast-food Brazilian dish, consisting of half-circle or rectangle-shaped thin crust pies with assorted fillings, fried in vegetable oil. The result is a crispy, brownish fried pie. The most common fillings are ground meat, mozzarella, heart of palm, bacalhau, catupiry cream cheese, chicken and small shrimp. Pastéis with sweet fillings such as guava jam with Minas cheese, banana and chocolate also exist, but are not so common. The pastel is classified in Brazilian cuisine as a"
"can be used in risotto or on polenta. Taleggio cheese Taleggio () is a semisoft, washed-rind, smear-ripened Italian cheese that is named after Val Taleggio. The cheese has a thin crust and a strong aroma, but its flavor is comparatively mild with an unusual fruity tang. Taleggio and similar cheeses have been around since Roman times, with Cicero, Cato the Elder, and Pliny the Elder all mentioning it in their writings. The cheese was solely produced in the Val Taleggio until the late 1800s, when some production moved to the Lombardy plain to the south. The production takes place every"
"the world. New Haven-style pizza, called ""apizza"", made its debut at the iconic Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (known as Pepe's) in 1925. Apizza is baked in coal- or wood-fired brick ovens, and is notable for its thin crust. Apizza may be red (with a tomato-based sauce) or white (with a sauce of garlic and olive oil), and pies ordered ""plain"" are made without the otherwise customary mozzarella cheese (originally smoked mozzarella, known as ""scamorza"" in Italian). A white clam pie is a well-known specialty of the restaurants on Wooster Street in the Little Italy section of New Haven, including Pepe's"
"a meat sauce with green peas. In Palermo, a street food would be ""Pani ca meusa"" (bread rolls with sliced, cooked pork spleen), and ""panelle"", deep-fried chickpea flour batter. In central Italy ""porchetta"" is common, which is a spicy roasted pork meat (from the whole, boned animal), usually served in a panino (bread roll). In Naples, fried food stalls, ""friggitorie"", sell filled, deep-fried pastries and other foods. A street food made of offal, commonly found in fairs and religious festivals in Naples and in the whole of Campania, is the ""'O pere e 'o musso"" (""the paw and the muzzle""):"
"Anna Del Conte Anna Del Conte (born 1925) is an Italian-born food writer whose works cover the history of food as well as providing recipes. Resident in England since 1949, she has been influential in raising the country’s awareness of Italian cuisine: her 1976 ""Portrait of Pasta"" has been described as ‘the instrumental force in leading [the English] beyond the land of spag bol, macaroni cheese and tinned ravioli’. Still in 2009 she remained critical of ‘Britalian’ cookery, however: mixing too many ingredients and suffering from the English palate’s liking for much stronger flavours, it lacked the subtleties of its"
"and 1933 the locality was served by a tram stop Vercelli-Biandrate-Fara. Casalbeltrame Casalbeltrame (Casabaltram in Piedmontese and Lombard) is an Italian town of 962 inhabitants in the province of Novara in Piedmont. A part of the municipal territory is included in the Natural Park of the Lame del Sesia. The rice paddies of Casalbeltrame are known for the production of ""riso venere"", an unusual black rice of Chinese origins. ""Venere"" refers to Venus, the goddess of love, and to the aphrodisiac properties claimed for the rice. The variety is included in the Slow Food Atlas. Casalbeltrame borders the following municipalities:"
"Bellissima pizzeria in New York City, New York. However, these are not officially recognized by ""Guinness World Records"". Additionally, a pizza was made by the restaurateur Domenico Crolla that included toppings such as sunblush-tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon, medallions of venison, edible gold, lobster marinated in cognac, and champagne-soaked caviar. The pizza was auctioned for charity in 2007, raising . In 2017, the world pizza market was $128 billion and in the US it was $44 billion spread over 76,000 pizzerias. Overall, 13% of the U.S. population aged 2 years and over, consumed pizza on any given day. Some mass-produced"
"Piedmontese breed fed on fresh forage or hay from mixed meadows or pasture. On occasion some milk from sheep or goats may be added to the cows' milk. Aside from being eaten on its own Castelmagno can be part of countless recipes, such as in fondue or veloutees and can be eaten along with rice, pasta, polenta, thinly sliced raw beef meat (carpaccio) or grilled vegetables. Castelmagno cheese Castelmagno (DOP) is an ancient cheese with Protected designation of origin status from the north-west Italian region Piedmont. Castelmagno is a cheese which has been made for many centuries: the earliest known"
"be traced back to the Middle Ages, and that sometimes reveals the influence of its important Jewish community. The signature dish is ""cappellacci di zucca"", special ravioli with a filling of butternut squash, Parmigiano-Reggiano and flavored with nutmeg. It is served with a sauce of butter and sage or bolognese sauce. Another peculiar dish, that was allegedly cooked by Renaissance chef Cristoforo di Messisbugo, is ""pasticcio di maccheroni"", a domed macaroni pie, consisting of a crust of sweet dough enclosing macaroni in a Béchamel sauce, studded with porcini mushrooms and ragù bolognese. The traditional Christmas first course is cappelletti, large"
"Buona Buona (sometimes referred to as Buona Beef) is an American restaurant chain that specializes in Italian beef, along with other dishes such as pizzas, and Chicago-style hot dogs. The company was founded in 1981 by Joe and Peggy Buonavolanto. Since its opening, the company has launched a total of 18 restaurants and 2 catering facilities in the Illinois area. The company is still run by three generations of the Buonavolanto family. The first Buona restaurant was opened in 1981 in Berwyn, Illinois by Joe Buonavolanto Sr. and his wife Peggy. The two worked in the restaurant along with their"
"called ""spaghetti alla bolognese"", or colloquially ""spag bol"" or just ""spaghetti"") is a pasta dish that is commonly served outside Italy. It consists of spaghetti served with a sauce made from tomatoes, minced beef, garlic, wine and herbs; sometimes minced beef can be replaced by other minced meats. In this sense it is actually more similar to Neapolitan ragù from the south of Italy than the northern Bolognese version of Ragu. Often accused of 'inauthenticity' when encountered by Italians abroad, it may be served with a larger proportion of sauce to spaghetti than is common in some Italian spaghetti dishes,"
"of risotto with Arborio rice or Maratelli rice, the typical kind of Saluggia beans, onion, Barbera wine, lard, salami, salt, and pepper), ""taglierini"" (thinner version of tagliatelle), ""bagna cauda"" (sauce of garlic, anchovies, olive oil, and butter), and ""bicerin"" (hot drink made of coffee, chocolate, and whole milk). Piedmont is one of the Italian capitals of pastry and chocolate in particular, with products like Nutella, ""gianduiotto"", and ""marron glacé"" that are famous worldwide. Apulia is a massive food producer: major production includes wheat, tomatoes, zucchini, broccoli, bell peppers, potatoes, spinach, eggplants, cauliflower, fennel, endive, chickpeas, lentils, beans, and cheese (like"
"has traditionally looked to its hilly interior with a cuisine centered on lamb, sucking pig, breads, and ""pecorino sardo."" It is in the food of Naples and Campania, however, that many visitors would recognize the foods that have come to be regarded as quintessentially Italian: pizza, spaghetti with tomato sauce, aubergine parmigiana (but the origins of the two last dishes are claimed by Sicily). Also, Italy exports and produces the highest level of wine, exporting over 2.38 million tonnes in 2011. , Italy was responsible for producing approximately one-fifth of the world's wine. Some Italian regions are home to some"
"or permanently during this period of time. The first church, founded in 1756, soon became too small for the growing community. The result was the construction of the Chiesa Madre del SS. Crocifisso in 1776 which is still a center of life in Belmonte Mezzagno today. Belmonte Mezzagno is famous for its olive oil and goat's milk cheese. Benedetto Spera, member of the Sicilian Mafia convicted ""in absentia"" of the killings of anti-mafia judges Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone was born in Belmonte Mezzagno. Belmonte Mezzagno Belmonte Mezzagno (Sicilian: Bellumunti but more properly U Mizzagnu in the local version of"