History Archivi

15 Jul

Benjamin Franklin, Guests and (dryaged) Fish

Monday July 15th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

Benjamin Franklin was one of the most brilliant minds in the history of mankind. Although he's remembered above all for being one of...

12 Jun

pizza, Virdex News

Samuel Morse was a di*k. And He hated Pizza…

Thursday June 20th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

A brilliant person is not always a good person. Samuel Morse, for instance. The inventor who contributed significantly to the birth...

30 May

pizza, Virdex News

Yale Food Addiction Scale. And Pizza.

Thursday May 30th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

Yale Food Addiction Scale: you know what that is? It's a psychometric instrument aimed at evaluating the food addictions of the subjec...

20 May

pizza, Virdex News

“The Noid” and its tragicomic tale

Monday May 20th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

There are millions of stories and anecdotes related to pizza. Some comical, some tragic. And there is one in particular that is both. ...

16 May

pizza, Virdex News

Maxi, XL or Cartwheel?

Thursday May 16th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

When was the Pizza XL born? (Or maxi-Pizza, or Giant Pizza, or whatever you want to call it!) The bigger, the better Small premise: ...

10 May

aspirazione, Virdex News

Henri Coandă: the Effect and the Hoods

Friday May 10th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

Do you know Henri Coandă? Do you know that he has a strong connection with aspiration? A character from a novel: born in 1886 in Bu...

11 Apr

Virdex News

Eating in company is better. Science’s word!

Thursday April 11th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

Eating is also a social activity. Or perhaps it'd be better to say it is especially a social activity. The history of communal meal...

11 Mar

pasta, Virdex News

Ravioli and Polygenesis

Monday March 11th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

By polygenesis we mean a phenomenon that was not born from a single cause, but rather evolved as several lineages independent of one an...

07 Feb

Virdex News

Beer, Milk and Breastfeeding

Wednesday February 7th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

As it comes to the world of Food and Beverage, there are hundreds of false myths. And, there is one, which has actually been around ...

06 Feb

Virdex News

Lipid Curtain

Tuesday February 6th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

The Cold War ended many years ago. Along with it, that Iron Curtain that divided the European populations fell. But there is anothe...

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