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15 Mar

Marco Polo, spaghetti and the myth

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Few of the myths that pervade the art of food are as persistent as the one that spaghetti were brought to Italy from China by Marco Pol...

07 Feb

Virdex News

Serving Minestrone

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Minestrone is an Italian soup. Proof of this is the fact that it is written in Italian on the menus of restaurants from all over the...

25 Jan

cateringequipment, Virdex News

The sound of the word “induction”

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

If there was one thing Michael Faraday couldn't stand, this was cacophony. The unpleasant feeling one gets from hearing awkward-soun...

24 Jan

Virdex News

Early Masterchef

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

When there was no Masterchef or any other reality show concerning food, a high-educated author and sophisticated philosopher had a very...

22 Jan

cateringequipment, pasta, Virdex News

King Lasagna

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Francis II of Bourbon was the last Monarch of the "Kingdom of the Two Siciles", the Reign located in the South of Italy, whose army and...

21 Jan

cateringequipment, Virdex News

Drinking out loud

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Not long ago, two researchers of the University of Bretagne/Sud (France) published a research paper showing the results of their experi...

20 Jan

cateringequipment, Virdex News

The Pending Coffee

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Did you know 10th of december is the "Caffé sospeso" International day? Unless if you're not from that part of the world, it's unlikel...

18 Dec

cateringequipment, pasta, Virdex News

The Spaghetti Tree

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

On April Fool's Day 1957, the British BBC aired a fake documentary, set in Ticino (an Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland), showing ...

15 Dec

cateringequipment, Virdex News

Schiller’s inspiration

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Friedrich Schiller was an amazing man of culture of the German Enlightenment age. His intellectual production was huge, consistent a...

04 Dec

cateringequipment, pasta, Virdex News

Borgia’s tagliatelle

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Among all the characters of the Italian Renaissance, no one has been subject of so many rumours like Lucrezia Borgia. Illegitimate d...

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