Saturday, November 5, 2016
An average of 175 daily coffee cups are served in every Italian bars
6 billion coffee cups (including espresso and cappuccino) are served in Italian “bar” in a year with a turnover of 6.6 billion Euros and an average of 175 daily coffee served in every coffee shop.
Considering the Italian population between 18 and 65 years old is 34,7 million, that means every other Italian buys a cup of coffee in a bar daily.
While Italian bars brew 17 million cups per day, the whole world enjoys an astonishing number of 2 billion cup a day (read the BBC News article)
Data elaborated from FIPE
Source: La Repubblica article
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Pizza: Americans are the biggest consumers
With an average of 13 kg per capita the United States hold the world record of pizza consumption. Italians rank second with an average of 7.6 kg each.
Source: Coldiretti
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Ice cream: Italians are the biggest consumers
Italians are ice cream biggest consumers, each year eat 12 kg per capita, plus 4 kg of industrial productions. In 2015 sales were up 8%.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
What (American) consumers want to eat and drink?
Very interesting report on consumers preferences and habits
Pizza:
- 75% of consumers eat pizza twice a month or more often
- Women are more likely to order vegetable toppings; men are more likely to order meat toppings
- Top 3 pizza toppings: sausage 54%, mushroom 51%, extra cheese 45%
Snacks:
- 3 in 4 consumers’ snack at least once a day
- Forget midnight snacks, mid-afternoon is prime snacking time
Beverage:
- 80% of customers at coffee shops purchased only a drink on their recent visit (no food)
- Grown-ups’s night out: when drinking away from home, consumers say they are most likely to order these adult beverages: 76% beer, 73% cocktail and mixed drink, 65% wine, 42% straight hard liqueur
Sandwich:
- 3 sandwiches consumers eat per week as average
- 46% of sandwiches eaten are purchased away from home
- 3 out of 5 sandwiches are ordered to go
- Top 3 most ordered meat: chicken breast 47%, bacon 42%, ham 36%
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Visiting a friend’s greenhouse just outside Shanghai
and football class is still there!
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Fitness: Cooper test
The Cooper test is a test of physical fitness. It was designed by Kenneth H. Cooper in 1968 for US military use.
In the original form, the point of the test is to run as far as possible within 12 minutes.
- The test is meant to measure the condition of the person taking it and therefore it is supposed to be run at a steady pace instead of sprints and fast running.
- The outcome is based on the distance the test person ran, their age and their sex.
- The results can be correlated with VO2 Max.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Dorgali, Isalle Cannonau DOC tasting
Nice and intense wine, slightly strong softness due a powerful alcohol content, 3 months second-hand barrel ageing provides very gentle tannins.
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Friday, May 6, 2016
Apulian Aglianico and Primitivo blind tasting
Colle Petrito, Aglianico, IGT Puglia, 2011, (grape: 100% Aglianico; ageing: 4 to 6 months in French barrique)
Cantine Polvanera, La Marchesana Primitivo, IGT Puglia, 2011 (Organic), (grape: 100% Primitivo; ageing: stainless steel tanks for at least 9 months followed by maturation in bottle for 4 months)
Conti Zecca, Donna Marzia Primitivo, IGT Salento, 2012, (grapes: 85% Primitivo, 15% others; ageing: maturation in epoxy resin-lined cement tank)
Cantine Polvanera, La Marchesana Aglianico, IGT Puglia, 2011 (Organic), (grape: 100% Aglianico; ageing: stainless steel tanks for at least 9 months followed by maturation in bottle for 15 months)
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Valdo Prosecco tasting
- Valdo, Cuvée Viviana, Valdobbiadene Superiore di Cartizze DOCG (Dry)
- Valdo, Cuvée del Fondatore, Prosecco Superiore Valdobbiadene DOCG Millesimato 2013 (Brut)
- Valdo, Marca Oro, Prosecco Superiore Valdobbiadene DOCG (Extra Dry)
Monday, March 28, 2016
Define beauty: new A4 challenge
Beauty: A combination of qualities present in a thing or a person (such as shape, color, form or personality) that please the aesthetic senses (especially the sight) or the intellect or moral sense.
There’s a new trend sweeping social media in many parts of the world: the “A4 waist” (last summer was “bikini bridge” and earlier was “thigh gap“)
This harmful trend is seen in over one million posts in which women are uoloading photos of A4 sheets held vertically in front of their waists to prove just how thin they are.
Friday, January 1, 2016
2016 New Year Eve
- Mixed Tuscany crostini
- Scottish Smoked Salmon, with mushroom
- Tuna tartare, with tomato, onions and balsamic
- White beans and spelt, with bacon
- Saccottini (dumplings) filled with mushroom and truffle
- Lentils and cotechino (Christmas pig sausage)
- Sparkling sweet wine opening
- Midnight toasting to 2016