How to best use a soup tureen!

Mrs “Alzatina”

Mery Barrasso

Mrs “Alzatina”

Centerpieces are something that everybody must have and back in fashion. A perfect accessory to set up any table with class, useful to serve with a touch of elegance and without taking up too much space to the delicacies that we want to present at the table in tavola. Tarts, cupcakes, biscuits, muffins, chocolates, fruits and other sweets... to each dessert, its pedestal! The pedestal bowl that we call “alzatina” is an object to use every day at tea time or on special occasions, to end with taste a delicious dinner. Are definitely to be considered to serve also the...

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Once upon a time: “the albarello”

Mery Barrasso

Once upon a time: “the albarello”

These days we are talking about vaccines that fortunately will help us to protect and defeat the coronavirus! As we already know, mostly of the vaccine produced to combat the pandemic, must travel in thermal containers and be stored at the very low temperature of - 70 degrees in a super-freezer. Once, however, the method of preservation of medicines was much less sophisticated, in fact ceramic vases were used. We are talking about an object of unquestionable charm: the albarello. The albarello was a container used in ancient pharmacies to contain spices, ointments and other medachimentose substances. This object had...

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