Welcome to the "suggestions" area of italialicious.com! On this page you will find curiosities and posts about the products available in our catalogue.
We would like to offer a bit of history about our products, and give a few suggestions from our chefs, to further appreciate the gift products you have just bought or received.
Italialicious is the brand new international luxury gift service used to please clients, friends and families all over the world.
With italialicious, individuals. corporates, agencies and public offices can customize the best luxury boxes based on top italian gourmet food and wines and have them sent wherever in the world via UPS Express delivery service.
Prices start from 29 Euros and quality of products is over the top ! Italialicious prepares, checks and ships each single order from their headquarters in Italy.
A special event? The birthday of a dear friend living abroad? A client to endear? Choosing the right gift is an art that takes time and creativity, especially when it's for someone who lives far away.
Only a few clicks on the ITALIALICIOUS web site and you can: select a box, choose the products, customize it with your message and ship it whenever you want in the world! Your only job by then, will be replying to the excited thank you calls and emails from your friends!
Those who get an ITALIALICIOUS present will be so excited by the thought of how much care, time and love you spent looking for such original and unique gift. A present you comfortably and easily purchased during the little time between business meetings or from the comfort of your couch just before going to bed.
Visit www.italialicious.com and send your gifts in the world... you'll never look better than this !
italialicious continues to promote italian gourmet excellence throughout the world, day by day. People and companies have chosen our ITALIALICIOUS gift boxes not only for our service, but for the highest quality selection of our available food products. Each of our products is chosen, tested and offered to you, thanks to the great relationship and collaboration we have with the best italian food producers.
Perché ci credo is a family driven company offering a wide range of fresh sauces, spreads and jams products. With the taste of homemade goodness, these healthy products are made without preservatives, additives or colorings: it's all about the love for simplicity and genuine taste. Started in 2007 after a long experience in food, Perché ci Credo is today valued as one of the top quality food producers in all of Italy.
Let's talk about a couple of products present in the italialicious catalogue:
like the Artichoke and Ricotta cheese Sauce, it is one of our most popular products chosen to personalize our Pasta and Olive Oil box: the fresh taste of Artichokes from Brindisi, mixed with the taste of pine nuts, rosemary, all combined in a soft Ricotta Cheese embrace. It's a delicious product ready for infinite possibilities of use: use for appetizers and bruschettas, on cheeses, as a Pasta Sauce, or with various meats.
Our Cherry Jam, is made with large cherries from Itria Valley, which are known to be particularly juicy. The pitted cherries are combined with a little taste of brown sugar and a touch of lemon. The genuine simplicity and its slow cooking, are the secrets to this delicious jam! Add this Cherry Jam to personalize one of our Dessert Boxes. It is wonderful on bread, used to top ice cream or gelato. Use it by itself, on cheese or even on meat with a touch of balsamic vinegar added.
As a bonus, this jam contains only 8% of added sugar, since these cherries are so naturally sweet on their own.
You can rely on Perché ci Credo products to add enjoyment to your dinner, lunch or break time! They will definitely make a big difference in all you're cooking! It's easy, and all you have to do is just.......order and enjoy!!!
Visit www.italialicious.com and customize your gift box with Perché Ci Credo products... you will give your family, friends, and clients the guarantee of a delicious food trip to Italy!
with italialicious: 3 easy click let's you think about the gift, choose it and send it whenever you want in the world!
Pesto Genovese sauce available on italialicious.com is the result of traditional and antique procedures that earned it the ‘Real & Authentic Pesto Genovese’ sauce mark by the official quality check association.
Basil is the aromatic herb selected as a gastronomic symbol of Liguria region. This is the special ingredient for a cuisine that derives from the leaves the intense perfume of the whole territory.
Since 1972 Sommariva has produced the basil through organic farming methods to maintain the healthiest product possible and to reflect the aroma of a dry and arid land in order to create a truly unique Pesto.
The cultivation takes place in heated glass houses (minimum temperature 18°C).
For the conservation of the aroma, the plants are harvested with at least two top tender leaves of a minor intense color. The regulations for the production of the real typical Pesto Genovese oblige to observe several rules provided by the Board Basilico Genovese D.O.P among the use of seeds type OCIMUM BASILICUM.
Basil should have precise characteristics in height, density of leafage, form of the elliptical leaves, convexity of the leaf edges, plat or convex layer of the lamina, total absence of mint flavor, intense and characteristic aroma.
The transformation into Pesto starts after the harvest of basil with the delicate and accurate washing of the leaves; within few hours the basil is combined with garlic, pine nuts, extra virgin olive oil, salt, Parmigiano Reggiano D.O.P., Pecorino Romano D.O.P. to create a Pesto of unique taste which has been granted awards like “Basilico d’oro 1995” and the trade name “Vero tipico Pesto Genovese” from the association “Ordine dei Cavalieri della Confraternita del Pesto” of Genoa.
Sommariva cultivates basil on their own farm, of about 10 hectares, which extends over the plain of Albenga, and they adhere to the strict requirements of the Board Basilico Genovese D.O.P. cited above. In their own laboratory, with the most advanced equipment, they produce and pack their Pesto with the guarantee of absolute top quality.
Pesto Genovese Sauce by Sommariva is available in the italialicious pasta boxes. It is a marriage of aroma, taste and love. Our suggestion for the best recipe for 3/4 people (300 grams of Pasta circa) is:
- Use half of the Pesto Sauce you got in the italialicious box and mix it with 2 spoons of hot water and half spoon of EVO olive oil.
- Don't put any salt in the boiling water and once ready, you can serve it topped with some parmesan!
Don't miss the chance to get the Sommariva Pesto Genovese in any of the italialicious Pasta Boxes for a friend or just for you, and discover the real taste of Liguria!
What is the secret of our ITALIALICIOUS pasta selections?
It's an old secret, almost forgotten! The secret is made of hard work and long time traditions. Let's start by saying that italialicious pasta comes uniquely from organic growing! Our friends from Fornovecchio company, are among the few to produce pasta using the rare Senator Cappelli grain!
Senator Cappelli grain takes his name from Raffaele Cappelli, senator and promoter of the Italian agrarian reform dating in the early 1900's. The first thing that makes this grain unique is the height of its ear which can grow to even cm 180! As you can guess, this particularity in its growth habit, makes the Senatore Cappelli grain very hard to harvest... and during the years, industries found what we think to be a bad solution to solve the problem!
Pasta industries started with OGM irradiation that brought the ear to a lower height and easier to harvest, without considering that process would modify even the genetical structure of its proteins! And so started all the intolerances, celiachia and allergy problems to human beings. AND THIS IS BAAAAAD!
Italialicious wants to make a difference with its pasta selections and has fought hard to obtain a Pasta made with this rare old pure grain! The pasta you buy on the italialicious website is made by the organic grow and harvesting of the original Senatore Cappelli grain, they don't care if the ear is longer and they have to work harder to harvest it, we just believe chemicals shall be TOTALLY OUT OF YOUR DISH!
This is not simply Pasta... this is a philosophy!
With all hand-crafted pasta, you need to be careful about the timing when cooking. Even though you will find the cooking times needed on our labels, we strongly suggest you monitor and taste the pasta while cooking, until it reaches the texture you desire. It's extremely important that you cook this special pasta in at least + 50% more water than you usually use with normal pasta.
Last but not least... This pasta is highly digestible and totally organic!
