Hi Italian food lovers, we are glad to be back in full force to our beloved blog, after a very intensive internal activity that literally took us over in the last two weeks.First of all, we took care of fixing the blog platform. We experienced some bugs since we launched our blog, but we are happy to say that we are now over it - we can now publish pictures, our videos from YouTube, and even write a blog post title that goes on two lines of text!!!

We also dedicated the last two weeks creating content for the blog. Massimo has been filming some of our Culinary School classes, and also browsing and digging in the treasures of our Gastronomic Library to bring you top recipes, while hanging out with some of his fellow Chef friends, optioning some of them as guest writers for this blog - so stay tuned!

Leigh has been traveling around Italy visiting our partner farmers and producers of authentic gourmet specialties, interviewing them on their experience as producers, and unveiling the secrets of their centuries-old production processes - so expect a lot of posts on this topic (with videos!).

Leigh also flew to the United States, as our Italian Culinary Specialist Team in the US got very busy recently, so we will report also from all the gourmet events Academia Barilla is throwing across the US with our top restaurant partners.

I have been very busy with the press office activities, as Academia Barilla started this year with two very important recognitions from the Harvard Business School and Forbes.com (after closing 2006 with an award for this blog). I will soon re-publish our press releases here on this blog, as we want to share our pride and excitement with you all Italian Food Lovers.

And the three of us have been involved in a very cool project that Academia Barilla will launch in the United States in a couple of weeks - I won’t drop any major hints here, as I don’t want to blow away the surprise effect, but be ready for it. This is something that we designed to challenge, but also award, all you Italian Food Lovers!

So, back to blogging! We are very excited about it, we hope you are happy too!!!

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