Focus
Focus is the Editorial by President Paolo Petroni published in the magazine Civiltà della Tavola
| Data | Focus |
|---|---|
| October 2025 |
The Bari Forum: Delegates and Legates attended, but it was for all Academicians Members of one big, lively, vital, beautiful family. |
| September 2025 |
Awaiting Italian cuisine’s UNESCO intangible heritage recognition The dossier promoted by our Academy and others is to be deliberated upon by year’s end. |
| July 2025 |
Mara Severin, a precious example of restaurant professionalism Passionate about wine and her sommelier position: a very rare job nowadays. |
| June 2025 |
When chefs turn their mastery from cuisine to social ethics Today some hold that cuisine should not only amaze but “nourish minds and society”. |
| May 2025 |
Disappointments and precarity weigh down culinary arts students The restaurant sector still suffers from the damage wrought by Covid. |
| April 2025 |
Tariffs are driving the world mad Italian exports are of high quality, almost niche, and will always be well received. |
| March 2025 |
Accomplished cooks ‘reinventing’ trattorie and osterie Accommodating a younger clientèle that is less willing to spend large sums. |
| February 2025 |
We must raise the alarm over food waste, but consumers are not the main culprits Industry and distributors are firm allies in spurring us to buy and then discard edible food. |
| January 2025 |
Booking a restaurant is tricky in Italy, but in New York it’s an expensive nightmare There are now websites and apps which book tables and resell those bookings at exorbitant prices. |
| December 2024 |
Dining in a good restaurant has become an odyssey We must book with ample notice, endure long waiting lists and eat when we're told. |
| November 2024 |
Uproar over Michelin star declined by cooks at "Il Giglio" in Lucca. |
| October 2024 |
Gianfranco Vissani leaps to the defence of traditional Italian cuisine A forerunner of televised gourmet cuisine, he is back in TV to defend the elevation of our homeland's many magnificent ingredients. |