Smell is a suave, elusive, sensual sense

Hans Schnier, protagonist of one of Heinrich Böll’s novels, used to smell perfumes, aromas and scents, a mix of absolutely intangible fragrances, impossible to transmit and to distinguish even in presence of the source itself

06 February 2012 TN 2 Year 4

Feuerbach, mixed salad, eroticism and sex

Fruit and vegetables deserve devotion and admiration, and they have always inspired artists, scholars and even scientists. Every fruit of nature is a nature masterpiece in miniature, unique for form, size and color

02 January 2012 TN 1 Year 4

Beauty and goodness of vegetables is in their colors

The organic concept of health, focused on quantity and substance of inputs we ingest and digest, is today integrated by a more spiritual and holistic concept, based on quality, hidden virtues and intrinsic properties of food

03 October 2011 TN 10 Year 3

Sex, pills and peppermint

Patriarchal societies tested men with their excessive adoration for virility and its symbols. Now Viagra and others revolutionized male sexuality. Why surrender to chemistry?

05 September 2011 TN 9 Year 3

The G20 of ministers of agriculture? Ultraconservative policies prevail

Too much noise for nothing. No concrete help to strengthen the agricultural policies of poor countries have been included in the agenda. Therefore, the only hypothesis against the financial speculation on food, has regarded the definition of limits to trading positions. Contradictions of Europe, which fights hunger only with words

04 July 2011 TN 7 Year 3

Why an olive tree? Asks Porphyry

The evergreen tree represents the highest lesson of the life: to fight for the good and to honor the pietas. And it assumes also an esoteric message: during the summer the olive tree turns the white part of the leaves to the sky, while during the winter it turns it to the soil

04 July 2011 TN 7 Year 3

A voice for the olive oil

What helps the voice of a famous international singer? The olive oil. Selena Gomez, the 17 years old star of teenagers, promotes the olive oil

01 November 2010 TN 11 Year 2

Children will be the chroniclers of extra virgin olive oil

A new project from the Association City of Oil to involve kids on the themes of oil. The event will take place within the IXth edition of Bimboil

01 November 2010 TN 11 Year 2

Every nation on Earth has the right to its own rural development

Hunger is not an ineluctable fatality, but an unacceptable reality, as stated by the Italian Minister for Agricultural Policies Giancarlo Galan during his speech at the 36th session of Fao food security committee

01 November 2010 TN 11 Year 2

Genes and allergens. Allergy to Gmo?

The challenge to uncertainties, lack of confidence and human prejudice. After last week intervention, Paola Cerana writes again of a hot topic. The transgenic research? It has opened a door wide to a marvelous, invisible universe

01 November 2010 TN 11 Year 2

The dark side of pleasure. It is fatal attraction

Its color is dark, black and shiny. It is hard, tenacious and resistant to the touch. There are not so much things that are able to stimulate all the five senses in a passionate symphony of pleasure. But it can

06 September 2010 TN 9 Year 2

The deep-water wine at record prizes

The 6,500 bottles of spumante wined for thirteen months under the water were recently recovered. They will be sold for Christmas

02 August 2010 TN 8 Year 2

The golden juice of the olive oil, between legend and reality

Chemistry and culture. An entire chapter of the book by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson is dedicated to oleic acid, blood of the societies arose around the Mediterranean Sea and the oil. Paola Cerana tells us about the molecules that changed history

05 July 2010 TN 7 Year 2

New application to buy tickets for Italy's 40 top sites

21 June 2010 TN 6 Year 2

Wine as a message of peace

A cooperation between the Entrepreneurs for Peace Association and the Agricultural Association of Siena produces a wine which is a “symbol of peace and reconciliation”

07 June 2010 TN 6 Year 2