Aldi opens in Italy. On 15 February it opens in Castellanza in the province of Varese, 35 km. from Milan, the first store of the German discount chain
Aldi's road map in Italy provides for the opening of 45 discount stores by 2018 with the hiring of 1,500 employees. It starts on March 1st in Lombardy and in the North East
Before, in supermarkets, each cash desk had its own queue and stop. Now the line is one for all the crates, and often turns into a nest of poisonous snakes
Which are the Italian supermarkets that sell the most? The answers in the latest Mediobanca report on large retailers
The first plastic-free supermarket has opened in Amsterdam. It belongs to the Dutch chain Ekoplaza, and sells over 700 "plastic free" items
Inside Aldi, the German discount chain that opened the top 10 Italian supermarkets. Here is what it looks like, prices and offers
Lidl discounters sell legal marijuana. Three grams cost 17 euros, the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content can reach up to 0.6%
The other day a friend stopped me and told me: you have disappointed me very much. Oh heck, that will never happen. Then he explains to me that right here on Dissapore he read, some time ago, an article in which I told the pleasure of going back to buying coffee from the roasting and having it ground. "But everyone knows that […]
Tasting test, Dissapore's weekly test, is dedicated this week to smoked salmon that can be purchased in supermarkets. Contenders: Fjord, Labeyrie, Sal Seafood, Cavalier Caviar Club, Harbor Salmon Co
24 hours spent at the Pescheria di Catania, one of the most visited places in the Sicilian city, to give you the best advice on what to buy and in which stalls, and on trattorias where to eat
Sanlorenzo Mercato, opened on 17 March in Palermo at 288 via San Lorenzo, in the premises of an ancient citrus fruit from the 1940s restored by the architect Chiara Mazzarella is for now a disappointment. It has nothing of the real Palermo markets, it lacks the soul
Today Test of tasting, the test of products on sale in supermarkets, deals with pandoro. These are the contenders: Balocco, Maina, Bauli, Galup, Motta, Tre Marie
The weekly test of products on sale in supermarkets, today deals with ready-made ragù. These are the contenders: Carrefour, Barilla, De Cecco, Althea, Italiamo, Coop, Terre d'Italia, Viva la mamma Beretta, Fior Fiore Coop, Montana, Star, Giovanni Rana
Which panettone to buy at the supermarket? Tre Marys at the top of the preferences among industrial sweets, lastly Motta, Lidl and Carrefour
Artisan Panettone: The rankings of the best traditional, creative and chef-made Christmas desserts are coming
Shopping from Cortilia, what I like (a lot) and what I don't like (a little) about the online store that delivers fruit and vegetables to your home
Why does the price of extra virgin olive oil in the supermarket vary so much? How much should a liter of good Italian oil cost?
Artisan panettone: the 20 best "creative" ones of 2018. The ranking of the most innovative Christmas sweets of the year
The research institute Iri has revealed which are the best-selling wines in Italy, in reference to the large-scale distribution channel. According to the data revealed as a preview for Vinitaly 2019 in Verona, in first place we find, as always, Lambrusco and Chianti, followed by Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, Muller Thurgau, Gutturnio and Primitivo. The […]
Avanzi Popolo 2.0 is the new Italian platform for recycling food, from waste from major events to waste from weekly shopping. If you are curious to know how this new community for food-sharing works, in this post we explain everything. Also because the premises are excellent and the objectives of the project are very shareable. The idea was born in 2014 […]
Today there is an app to do practically anything and, faced with the problem of food waste, you certainly can't miss the ones to recycle food. All of them offer smart and innovative solutions, useful for the environment but also for the environment - because, don't forget, these apps are often also used to save on shopping. We are talking about a theme […]
What are the best species to eat, among freshwater fish? This is an excellent period for fishing, dear readers: and knowing better the "seasonal fruit", in its alternative to saltwater fish, could be useful for a healthy shopping, cheaper than expected and, possibly, sustainable from point of view […]
Is stone ground flour better? Let's clarify it through a comparison between stone milling and cylinder milling, passing through the classification of flours, the difference between white and wholemeal flour. What really changes between the two grindings? It seems strange to have to underline it, but in a white art process the flour is without shadow […]
Farmer's Market Garbatella, Rome's local market, through our guide to stalls, products and producers. In the prevailing alienation of polished fruits, stuffed fish, steaks stuffed with water and individually packaged bananas that make up the fabric of consumption of metropolitan communities, Rome is partially saved from the desolation of Qui Una […]
Women capable of imposing themselves on the media with their art of making bread, becoming protagonists of the artisanal retro-innovation that, often, we only know through men. Here are the first women of this lovely new wave. You are about to start reading about a small but significant revolution taking place. Remove the […]
For a celiac, shopping gluten-free at the supermarket is anything but simple: knowing how to read the labels, giving oneself answers to questions you didn't know you had and - above all - avoiding the dreaded contamination becomes essential. How to get by? Armed with time and good will, before starting our gluten-free shopping at […]
Employee riders, under contract instead of paid by the piece? Realistic, indeed, real, since You Cook's (gourmet) food delivery exists in Milan. Their proposal comes at a still delicate moment: in fact, the controversy about cyclists who deliver pizzas, poke, sushi and company to our home and that […]
TuttoFood - the international B2B fair dedicated to food & beverage - is a bit of a picture of our time, between new trends on the rise and new products offered for the daily shopping shelf. At least for us, that we try to detect the trends. Because Tutto Food, primarily, is an abnormal exhibition of large companies […]
I will begin this taste of the new Cornetto Algida designed by Isabella Potì as it would be appropriate for a real journalist, with an iron integrity and professional ethics: starting from my preconceptions and my considerations made a priori, totally prior to testing the product in question. Yes, because I really want to like this VIP edition Cornetto. For real. […]
We went to Lidl, temple of good value for money, to select and recommend the 10 best products of the most popular line in the German discount store, namely Italiamo, made only with Italian products
Black Friday 2018: live discounts for those who love to cook. Here are the opportunities not to be missed on Amazon
We tried Amazon's new Gourmet Selection and we were a bit disappointed. Gourmet Selection is nothing more than a collection of food sellers within Amazon, the products sold directly by the e-commerce giant are only 12
Amazon Prime Now has been active since November 2015, the App for Prime customers that allows the Milanese to receive orders for 20,000 products at home in an hour (or two), to which fruit and vegetables are now added
From today, Amazon Dash Button also brings the convenience of 1-Click ordering at home to Italy. When the products are about to run out, just press the button to place orders and receive them with Prime shipments, unlimited and at no additional cost
We tried Dash Button, the Amazon device that allows, at the push of a button, to automatically send the order of the corresponding product via Wi-Fi connection. The product we tested is one of the few currently available, coffee
Amazon Go is the first cashless supermarket, opened yesterday in Seattle by the e-commerce giant. Here are the first photos that explain how the artificial intelligence in charge of managing the store works
There are two news items: the sun has finally shown itself and this summer's Algida ice creams are quite curious. Let's talk about the 2019 novelties of the well-known multinational packaged ice cream, which every year revisits old glories and distributes Cornetti and Magnum reinterpreted in a gourmet key to the mini-market in the village. Because that's exactly how […]
The map of the 12 best bakeries in Turin, with addresses, bread prices, characteristics of each essential bakery. We don't know exactly when it happened, but bread has transformed from a daily food, present on everyone's tables, to a gourmet product. Precisely that bread that is so basic and basic that it becomes a metaphor itself […]
Review of Michael Pollan's latest book, "How to Change Your Mind". Essay on psychedelics, in Italy it has just been published by Adelphi and in the United States it is already a best seller
What not to miss at the Capo Market in Palermo, including fish, street food, grattatelle and typical foods. The best stalls, where to eat and all our tips