As we announced with a previous post, last June 29, on the opening day of the hip New York food show Fancy Food NY, Academia Barilla organized a cocktail party with Giada De Laurentiis as a top guest, at the stylish Astra NY Lounge, at the 14th floor of the beautiful D+D Building on 3rd Avenue, with amazing views of the city that never sleeps.

The event was part of the launch and official announcement of the US nationwide distribution of the new Italian gourmet food line Giada De Laurentiis Selected by Academia Barilla we already introduced on our Italian Food Lovers blog.

At the Astra Lounge, while Giada presented her new gourmet product line, a team of Chef from Barilla USA prepared some gourmet appetizers using Giada’s and Academia Barilla’s products, while Mionetto was partnering the NY event providing pairing wines.

We will be following up soon on this, publishing photos and recipes from the NY event, as soon as we get them at the blog editorial team. In the meanwhile, we are pleased to announce that we will publish in the next couple of weeks some Giada recipes prepared with her new products, so stay tuned!