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specifically in the municipalities of Albareto
mushroom picking is a long-cherished tradition
These regions have been recognized since 1934 as important areas for the production of the “Fungo di Borgotaro,” as established in local traditions and commercial customs by the Chamber of Commerce
The 49th edition of the Fiera del Fungo di Borgotaro IGP
This year the event will take place on the weekends of Sept
transforming the charming historic center and surrounding areas of Borgo Val di Taro into an authentic oasis of flavors
Food and wine fairs featuring the best of local producers:
One of the aspects that is eagerly awaited each edition is the ample presence of wine and food stalls showcasing the excellence of local products
From delicacies such as Borgotaro IGP porcini mushrooms
you will have the chance to indulge your palate with authentic delicacies
For those who like to immerse themselves in the world of Italian flavors
the street food area will be a true gastronomic paradise
There will be local street food with innovative and delicious dishes
But the Mushroom Fair is not only a celebration of local cuisine
it is also an opportunity to discover the creative talents of the community
The ingenuity market offers unique and original handicrafts
while the non-food market presents a variety of products
The “Fungo di Borgotaro” includes four species of porcini: Boletus edulis
These mushrooms are known for their superior organoleptic
olfactory and aromatic qualities compared to other similar porcini from Italy and abroad
Distinctive and uncultivated in the traditional sense
the Borgotaro mushroom attracts thousands of mushroom seekers to these woods each September and October
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Saturday and Sunday 20-21 and 27-28 September 2025Borgo val di TaroThe Organizing Committee of the Borgotaro IGP Mushroom Fair has officially started work to prepare the 2025 edition of the event
the fair celebrates a historic milestone: its 50th edition.The appointment with the scent and flavor of the famous Borgotaro IGP mushroom is scheduled for two consecutive weekends
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There are many reasons that make Elisa Longo Borghini’s second victory in the Giro Donne’s history, which came in Borgo Val di Taro (Parma), so special. The first obviously concerns the new jersey that, for the first time, is wet with champagne. The second is about the fact that she has succeeded in the never simple feat of being a prophet in her homeland. The third, finally, is about how it came about: did you realize that we have a new sprinter in the team?!
I feel a ‘Lidl’ emotional, especially because I have the Tricolore and I’m racing in my country. I’m always proud to wear this jersey and to win here is something special and unique. Doing it in front of a rider I respect a lot, like Annemiek van Vleuten, made it even greater. It’s amazing for me, for the team and also for our new sponsor.
After the successes at the Italian championships (both TT and road, in case someone forgot), on the roads of the Giro, Longo Borghini confirmed the signs of growth, after a troubled spring from a health point of view.
Today’s race is the proof that the Italian champion, on her 40th career success, is once again super-competitive. And the road to Olbia, where the Giro Donne will end, is still long and could still offer new chances for both her and her teammates.
We always race to win, we make teamwork and aggressive racing our trademark. I said this at the beginning and I repeat it now: we are here to make a great Giro.
photo Massimo Fulgenzi/SprintCyclingAgency©2023
Tomorrow will be an important stage for the GC, but let’s go step by step. Now, I want to enjoy the moment. Being there, on the GC podium, makes me happy, but my thoughts on the eve of the race have not changed. I want to live the Giro day by day. So many stages hide dangers. The keyword is to be ready and, as for the rest, we will see as we go along.
Delivering the first victory for Lidl-Trek makes me proud. I would like to thank all my teammates, the staff and our manager Luca Guercilena, who is at home right now: I hope I made him happy. We started this new chapter in our team history with great motivation and ambitious goals. And the new sponsor is as enthusiastic as we are for this new adventure. Being the first to raise the arms to the sky is certainly special.
There are, of course, worse fates than living out your days with family along the coast in Liguria, but they’d traveled there last summer planning to stay only a few weeks and then return to Los Angeles to finally open a bricks-and-mortar restaurant. They had lasagna to bake and eager customers awaiting their return.
A global pandemic, an expired visa and an international travel ban upended everything. Lucatorto and Pistorio had to hit pause on building a permanent space for Ceci’s Oven, their underground Echo Park pasta operation.
Ceci’s Gastronomia, a cozy marketplace in Silver Lake with prepared foods and Italian specialties all inspired by nonne — Italian grandmothers — finally opened this month. But the journey was riddled with detours.
As anyone with a nonna can tell you, learning to cook frequently starts at an early age. Lucatorto, 31, began his time in the kitchen during childhood summers when his parents would drive from beachy Liguria so they could drop him off at his paternal grandmother’s house in mountainous Borgo Val di Taro, also known as Borgotaro, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
“In summer they parked me there for literally over a month, and what do you do when you’re a lonely child with a grandma and a couple of friends?” Lucatorto asked. “The routine was going to get groceries, making lunch, snacks in the afternoon, then getting ready for dinner. The whole day — and I’m not saying this because it sounds romantic — the whole day with nonna revolved around what’s next to eat, and how can I help you?”
He spent afternoons and evenings forming sheets of fresh pasta and learning to make her erbazzone, a paper-thin-crusted savory pie filled with Parmesan and bitter greens (the Ceci’s version uses chicory and Swiss chard).
Francesca Pistorio, left, and Francesco Lucatorto stand behind the counter at Ceci’s Gastronomia in Silver Lake. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) While there he met a friend who would later bring him to Los Angeles’ Providence, which sponsored Lucatorto on his first visa to work in the United States in 2013. He started at the restaurant with an internship, and by the time his visa was up, he was chef de partie. In the meantime, he fell in love with L.A.
Terroni sponsored the chef’s second visa, and eventually he joined Officine Brera (now Brera Ristorante) and helped open the Sixth & Mill pizzeria next door. The Michelin Bib Gourmand, awarded to Sixth & Mill in 2019 and a nod to restaurants of both high quality and value, is one of the highlights of his career.
He also worked for Angelini Osteria and Angelini Alimentari cafe, as well as Otium, and decided in 2019 that he was finally ready to open his own restaurant somewhere in L.A. He started small, with a pop-up called Pasta Night at the East Hollywood wine bar Tabula Rasa. He quit his job with Angelini Alimentari to focus on it and to secure a space and funding for a more permanent outlet. Three months later, pandemic closures started.
As bars and restaurants closed, with dwindling locations to host his pop-up, Lucatorto and his then-fiancée decided to try cooking out of their own home. Pistorio, 29, was working in commercial and TV production at the time and threw herself into planning and executing Lucatorto’s vision, splitting time between her career and cooking.
“To me,” she said, “from the very beginning it was a love choice.”
Together they turned their apartment kitchen into Ceci’s Oven, a weekly underground lasagna operation with classic ragus and Genovese pesto layered between béchamel and sheets of fresh pasta over and over until they filled aluminum trays to the brim. Orders were placed over Instagram DM and often sold out for the week within two hours, with Lucatorto on lasagna and focaccia duty and Pistorio manning the tiramisu. They knew they were on to something.
Then Pistorio’s visa expired, prompting a trip to Italy. But what was expected to be a relatively short stay turned out be closer to eight months due to a proclamation, signed by then-President Trump on June 22, 2020, that suspended visa holders, among other visitors and immigrants, from entering the U.S. through Dec. 31.
“It really felt like we were so close, that giving up at that point was not a smart move,” Lucatorto said. “When we moved back to Italy we considered, of course, ‘What is Plan B? What if we can never go back there?’ We definitely had that going through our mind because we didn’t know. There were no replies [from the consulate]. We heard all our friends in our condition were stuck somewhere else.” One, he said, was stalled in Mexico and weighing coming back in through Canada.
Eventually they settled on the concept of opening a gastronomia, a market-like business offering takeout made from classic home recipes — especially comforting nonna-like recipes. A window display might feature freshly baked focaccia, sandwiches, baked pastas, prepared salads and sweets.
“Some friends of mine said, ‘Can I give you this recipe of hers so that you can make it, and when you come back to Italy you’re going to make it for me, OK?’” Pistorio said.
Their plan for Ceci’s Gastronomia was evolving from a tribute to their own nonne to one that also honored their friends’ grandmothers — as well as classic, hyper-regional cooking traditions from across Italy.
“The knowledge of our elders — that’s what we wanted, that’s what we needed,” Lucatorto said. “This is what we want to cook. My goal was always, ‘I want to cook like a grandma,’ because every time you go it’s a fest.”
Eventually, Lucatorto and Pistorio hope to expand with a small fridge for bottled sauces, fresh pastas and other market goods they’ll be making onsite. Even further out, they envision a menu-planning track of weekly dishes that promote a Mediterranean diet.
“Hopefully we can educate a little bit on real, original Italian food,” he said. “When you walk in there, we want to say, ‘Ciao!’ We want to make you feel like you’re visiting a piece of Italy. [Broader] Italian cuisine is over. The future of Italian cuisine is regional.”
It’s slow food served fast, Lucatorto mused. The opening menu features their signature lasagna from the Ceci’s Oven pop-up, which is made with red wine, beef and aromatic herbs such as rosemary or sage. It’s not the only Ceci’s Oven favorite making a return: Gnocco alla Romana, fresh, pillowy discs of semolina-flour gnocchi with a cacio e pepe sauce, is on offer, as is lasagna layered with Genovese pesto.
There’s nonna-style polpette, or meatballs, as well as a daily farmers-market frittata. Caponata, inspired by Pistorio’s Sicilian nonna, features hand-chopped eggplant, olives, celery and onion, while the bunet, a kind of chocolatey dessert, hails from her family’s Piedmont side. There’s pissallandrea — focaccia topped with olives, anchovies and tomato sauce — and on opening day, a tray of sweet peppers sat marinating in agrodolce in the case.
Lucatorto’s nonna in Borgotaro, now 97, has watched and tasted her grandson’s cooking over the decades, including his execution of her own recipes taught to him decades ago. He wasn’t able to cook for her often during the extended return to Italy — for fear of COVID-19 — but Lucatorto says you can rest assured: Ceci’s Gastronomia is finally open, and it’s fully nonna-approved.
Stephanie Breijo is a reporter for the Food section and the author of its weekly news column. Previously, she served as the restaurants and bars editor for Time Out Los Angeles, and prior to that, the award-winning food editor of Richmond magazine in Richmond, Va. Born and primarily raised in Los Angeles, she believes L.A. to be the finest food city in the country and might be biased on that count but doesn’t believe she’s wrong.
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My grandmother was born in the village of La Costa
in the Emilia Romagna region of northern Italy
no trains and you have to book the taxis a week in advance
People from Borgotaro came to London; families from Piacenza would have gone to Scotland and Paris and the people from Bardi all seemed to go to Wales
The farmland wasn't there: they'd just come out of a war; it was destitute
Wales had a huge mining community and there was money to be made
My grandfather moved to the Rhondda Valley and then brought my grandmother over
The Italians in Wales would go back to Bardi every summer
Most of them kept houses there or they had the family house; we've still got my grandmother's place
My first memory of Bardi is from when I was three or four
My father had a cine camera and there's a film of my brother and me playing there
Now I go back to Italy two or three times a year and visit Bardi when relatives are going to be there
It's a real security blanket for me because I can go to the same place every time and know that a certain shop will still be there and it won't have changed hands or have turned into something else
I fly into Bologna (not Bologna Forli which is further down south) or Parma
we used to fly into Milan and it would take three hours driving along winding roads to get to Bardi
Now you can be there within an hour and a half of landing
People laugh when I say it reminds me of Wales
but it is in a big valley – the Po – after all
It's very hilly and a great area for walking
There are a few little guest houses in the town and there's a big hotel in nearby Fornovo
or you can stay in the neighbouring village of Borgotaro
It's a good base if you want to discover that part of Italy
The spa town of Salsomaggiore is less than an hour and you can easily drive from Bardi to Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coastline
It's the oldest university town in Europe and it's got absolutely beautiful architecture
I love its little promenades and covered walkways
You can't walk down the street in Bardi without someone spotting you
If you want to go out and have a quick coffee without having to talk
you have to be out before eight in the morning
forget it: your morning's gone because you meet people and it's chat
The Italians remind me a bit of the Irish; they're all embracing
If they see you making an effort with the language
they're very flattered that you care enough to try and they encourage you
If you go to Bardi in the middle of summer you'll hear Welsh Italians
One moment they're speaking with a Welsh accent and in the next breath they're speaking fluent Italian
but the older generation speaks local dialects
and at Bar Grande you'll find a mixture of the locals and the Welsh Italians
Bar Enzo is referred to as the socialist bar or communist bar
All the bars close in the winter because there's no one around
salads and fruit; you really don't need to buy anything else
The things I love more than anything else are eating the tomatoes and smelling the rosemary
The fact that peaches and everything else in the shops are ripe – as they should be – is one of the great things about going to Italy
has become so big in the region that there's even an organic shop in Bardi; it's called Ca' d'Alfieri
It was such news in the town that my cousin rang me when it opened
All the produce is sourced from the local area; they sell the most amazing tomatoes you'll ever see in your life
Whenever anyone from the family goes out to Bardi
which we buy and get vacuum packed at the local co-operative store
Another thing I like is the very dark variety of plum they grow in the region
they boil the hell out of the fruit to make the jam nice and thick
The salamis from the Emilia Romagna region are harder than the varieties you find in France – I like them like that
I'm hoping to import the salami for the deli I'm opening at my new London restaurant
The great thing about all the restaurants in the area is that you never get a menu
The waitress runs through the dishes in Italian and asks what you want
The women who work in the restaurants cook exactly the same way as they would at home
I particularly look forward to eating anolini – pasta stuffed with veal
served in a broth – which I've eaten since I was a kid
Maria Teresa Labadini serves great anolini at her trattoria in the nearby village of Tosca di Varsi
It's a family-run business and serves all the great regional dishes
including tortelli (pasta stuffed with spinach and ricotta) and polenta
Whether you go to restaurants such as Baraccone in Fornovo or Sorelle Picchi just outside Parma
they all serve variations of the same menu
Some might do pasta fritta – deep fried pasta with Parma ham – another may just give you cured meats
One may have a bit more spinach or ricotta in their tortelli or one might use pumpkin
but it's all from the traditions of the region
One of the best meals I've ever eaten was at Ristor in Varano de' Melegari
We call it "the road café"; it used to be a garage but the family turned it into a restaurant
roast veal or roast pork and then desserts
That's the thing: you can go out and eat so cheaply there
You're not going to be blinded by science; it's just honest
One of my truly favourite restaurants is Hosteria Giusti in Modena
It was founded in 1605 and was originally a butcher's; you can still see the drain in the floor where the blood would have seeped away
It's in a courtyard and there are only about four or five tables
It's run by a husband and wife team and you often see him nipping out to his cellar across the road to get the wine
The summer months are the best time to visit Bardi
They have some wonderful festivals in August including La Festa dell' Emigrante
a huge market day when the whole of the market is covered with food and clothes stalls
The only problem with visiting in August is that it's not a good time to explore the region
Parma and Bologna are effectively closed because everything shuts down for the Italian summer holiday
when it starts to get really sunny and there are fewer people on the roads
or in September when the weather is still good and Italy has gone back to work
September is also a good time to be in Borgotaro
especially dried porcini – that's another we smuggle back
although their strong aroma can make your clothes stink – and in September they have various feste dei funghi where everyone eats mushroom risotto on big trestle tables
If you go to Bardi you won't get the rolling hills of Tuscany
London NW1 (020-7388 3344; gordonramsay.com) on 22 September
Caseificio Cansaldi Societa' Agricola Cooperativa Formaggi Latticini Burro
Trattoria Città d'Umbria di Labadini Maria Teresa
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