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The workshop devoted to building the “nests” that won the Nidificare i Paduli (i.e. Nesting in the Paduli park) contest was a truly unforgettable experience. Enclosed is a gallery of the pictures taken during those days.

Although too many variables are still in play, world olive oil production in 2015–2016 looks set to be higher than in 2014/15 but lower than in 2013/1

The collaboration of Accademia dei Georgofili and the Istituto Alberghiero of Assisi is the major asset of the first Italian full-immersion course in English

Two conferences sponsored by Oiv, Ceev and Fivs and international speakers to outline the sensory profile of the modern consumer. All this will be experienced at Simei 2015

The Conference will be held at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, 17 - 19 March 2016

International Congress at Simei. 3rd and 4th November 2015, Simei International Enological and Bottling Equipment Exhibition. Milan, Italy

Exactly: a spoonful a day makes us more pleasant, but only if it is olive oil. Trust Nobuo Nishimura, Japanese author and editor. Back in 1964, when it was still virtually unknown outside our country, he organized a course on Italian cuisine for Japanese chefs and teachers.

The word territory derives from terrae torus, literally ‘bed made of land’, and it originally indicated the land that ancient peoples took possession and delimited. The Romans were the first to apply a legal framework to a community of people taking possession of areas of land with regere fines or “drawing the borders”. Throughout the ages technical and experimental knowlwdge was passed down the generations and slowly agriculture was born