Chocolate : Italian Reflections

CioccolaTò Returns To Turin

By Italian Reflections on March 3, 2011

CioccolaTò returns to Turin this month for ten days. from 25th March to 3rd April 2011, an event not to be missed by those who love the food of the Gods! Turin’s tradition as the Chocolate Capital of Italy goes back over 400 years. In 1559 Emanuel Philibert of Savoy arrived with several cocoa seeds [...]

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An Interview with Guido Gobino, Turin’s Chocolate Magician

By Italian Reflections on March 1, 2011

The first ‘Food and Wine Interview’ of 2011 is with Guido Gobino, the chocolate magician from Turin, Piedmont. Turin has been associated with chocolate for over four hundred years. Today, Guido Gobino carries forward this long tradition with the art of a consumate magician. It was in 1946 when Commander Musso first opened a chocolate [...]

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