“Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.”
Lemmy
Che bello
Sometimes it’s not enough for the trip south. But before our wanderlust drives us so crazy that we reach for the frozen pizza, we’d rather get the delicacies from Fattoria La Vialla, which brings Tuscany home to us with its biodynamically produced food. The history of the family business stretches back two centuries, with 1,600 hectares of land belonging to the Lo Francos. With a view to sustainably cultivated, healthy soil, everything that belongs on the table when Italians invite guests to a feast is produced here: Antipasti, sugo and pasta, Prosecco, rosé and red wine, cheese and salami, olive oil and balsamic vinegar and much more to turn a cozy evening into a Notte Italiana. The delicacies are so beautifully packaged and labeled with so much love and flourish that it’s best not to transfer them into bowls and pots. This is Tuscan hospitality in all its splendor! The only thing missing is the checkered tablecloth. lavialla.com
Sweets
Garçoa’s chocolate bars are like puzzles for adults. So pretty, so graceful – and simply delicious. If you have to explain why it’s worth paying as much for 100 grams of chocolate as for a cappuccino on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse, we’re not going to convert you. Anyone who appreciates an organic-certified, fairly and transparently produced product that also satisfies the hunger of the eye is in the right place with the small Zurich producer Garçoa. The entire process from bean to bar takes place on the company’s own table, without additives and by hand. You could say you can taste it, but above all you appreciate such a philosophy in a time when assembly line chocolates pass for delicacies.
Heart thing
Not all tomatoes are the same. Anyone who has ever cooked pasta pomodoro without the help of Barilla or complained about the wateriness of Dutch greenhouse tomatoes knows this. Kat Menschik doesn’t have to explain the magic of the nightshade plant, which sprouts happily in her vegetable patch alongside zucchinis and peppers. There are over 10,000 different varieties around the world with cute names such as Rosa Oma, Tiflis Rosa or Gargamel. Menschik goes to great lengths to infect us with her fascination for the round red – and it not only reads like the most heart-warming vow of love, but is also particularly beautiful to look at thanks to the pretty illustrations.
