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Greetings from California
For RITROVO® this is a year for strengthening partnerships: from NY to Salt Lake to LA, we are working to promote and distribute our regional imports with local friends who can spread the RITROVO® message. For that reason we delightedly arrived in southern California to meet up with our distributor Gourmet Food Solutions. Together we [...]
Read More..>>Merry Christmas from Ritrovo at Il Corvo Seattle
12 Flavors, 12 memories for Christmas
Tis the season, and this week we eagerly and mouth-wateringly composed our RITROVO® Holiday Party menu with Chef Michael Easton of the newly relocated Il Corvo in Seattle. We wanted to honor our staff and supporters with a very special gathering around the RITROVO® table. We have entrusted this auspicious event to Chef Michael in [...]
Read More..>>End of Summer Feast
Here in the Pacific Northwest, the intense long rays of summer are giving way to a more slanting, slightly subdued hue of sunlight, hinting that not long from now fall will be upon us. But we didn’t want all of summer to pass us by without a trip to see friends and customers up in [...]
Read More..>>How special are our orecchiette farina arsa?
In their most recent issued, La Cucina Italiana magazine has recognized RITROVO® as the bold importer (only one in the U.S.) of one of Italy’s most unusual pastas: toasted wheat orecchiette or orecchiette farina arsa. This pasta is even little known inside Italy. Even Elizabeth Minichilli – an Italy food expert and renowned author – [...]
Read More..>>The Upside Down Fork
Over the last few weeks we have stopped drinking wine at our house. Two certified sommeliers have decided to live a different way for a few months, eschewing alcohol. This decided change has not only impacted our drinking behavior but also focused our mealtime energies in a new and mind-opening way. without our formerly daily [...]
Read More..>>Pane e Amore
We have fallen in love with Matera IGP bread since first slicing its massive crust and dough during the Winter Fancy Food Show. From the first time we cut thick slices off of the loaf, starting from the rocky, crusted end through to the first small slices and on into the hulking inner tender and [...]
Read More..>>Fancy Food Show 2012 RITROVO® Highlights
In Italy Ferragosto is the mid-August holiday where people return to their village of birth or travel to some vacation site to gather with all their closest friends. There they share good food, good company, and good times. For RITROVO®, the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco is a bit like a “Ferr-Gennaio”, [...]
Read More..>>RITROVO® Takes Part in the Italian Food & Wine Exposition in Chicago, Illinois
Recently, we were invited to participate in the Italian Food & Wine Exposition in Chicago. It was a distinct honor to be invited to this extraordinary event, co-sponsored by the Chicago and Houston Italian Chambers of Commerce, as only three importers in the U.S. had been invited to it. RITROVO® was the only West Coast [...]
Read More..>>Sizzling in DC
Outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. summer was coming on, full-on, with combined temperatures exceeding 120 degrees. Inside the center things were heating up as well, thanks to visitor response to new RITROVO SELECTIONS™ Introduced at the SUMMER 2011 FANCY FOOD SHOW. We had been anticipating a warm reception. According to the [...]
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