Italian Food Lovers

In the mid 1980’s, long before the release of the blockbuster film Sideways, GreatEveryDayItalianWines.com’s founder and wine expert Gary Grunner was part of a small group of wine representatives and educators traveling all over New York State by car, train, bus and plane — selling, doing staff seminars, hosting wine dinners, fund raisers, teaching classes and talking wine all along the way.

It all started in 1982 when Gary fell in love with Italy while on a college exchange student program. As he recalls “It truly was a life changing experience. Not only did I develop a love for Italian wines, food and soccer from the contagious passion of my professors, but I also met a young Italian girl who later became my wife“.

Twenty-six years later Gary has homes both in New York and Italy and spends 10 hours a day immersed in the food and wine scene. He loves to share his passion of food and wine with people and he’s the first to talk about a new wine find, a new wine gadget, a chefs new restaurant and a great wine vacation.

Gary’s websites GreatEveryDayItalianWines.com and GreatEveryDayWines.com reach out and engage people on both sides of the wine world: the eager buyer and the enthusiastic seller.
Both websites provide innovative wine cards and other exciting tools to learn about wines, while Gary’s wine articles appear in a local New York restaurant magazine or on dishdujourmagazine.com. Gary is also in the midst of completing two books on wine and one on food that should be in print in 2009. We all look forward to it!

In the meanwhile, we invite you to explore GreatEveryDayItalianWines.com, where you can also find a wide range of information not only on Italian wines, but also on wineries, wine shops and restaurants, wine books, and more.

A special section of the website is dedicated to “Turismo del Vino in Italy” (Wine Tourism in Italy) and this month features Academia Barilla’s Culinary School as a must-do for those how plan to travel to Italy to learn about Italian food, engage in culinary and gastronomy classes and, of course, to learn also about Italian wines and wine and food pairing!

A full list of culinary and gastronomy courses, complete with cooking classes and gourmet tours of the Italian Food Valley, are listed at the Academia Barilla page on GreatEverydayItalianWines, and we will be soon blogging more in details about it.

For more information about the Academia Barilla Culinary School and this year’s calendar of culinary tours, cooking classes and culinary learning vacations, please contact Academia Barilla by phone in the US at +1 866 772.2233, in Italy at +39 0521 264060, or by email at academiabarillaculinary@barilla-usa.com.

The Academia Barilla Culinary Center in Parma, Italy is being featured on GreatEveryDayItalianWines.com in the Turismo del Vino in Italy section under cooking schools for being one of the best Italian culinary schools to attend during trips to Italy.

Great Everyday Italian Wines provides an authentic, unique and exciting way for consumers and wine collectors to discover Italy’s hottest wines, wine makers, wineries, regions, importers, travel companies, wine shops and restaurants that feature great Italian wine selections.

Since the Academia Barilla Culinary School features also wine tasting and wine pairing classes, the guys at Great Everyday Italian Wines decided to review and list our culinary school in their web directory.

Quoting the notes from GreatEverydayItalianWines.com on the Academia Barilla Culinary Center:

“School is back in session. This is a wonderful professional equipped cooking school, in the center of Parma on a breath taking campus.

Think of the Culinary Institute of America in Italy where you can go to learn the art of Italian cooking, see the sites and keep thinking to yourself I hope this class never ends.

They have all types of classes, one-on-one training, day sessions to a whole week. Their website is very informative and will make you want to be their best student”.

Well, our website is very informative indeed; we invite you to browse it for more details about our Culinary School, which of course you can find also on our blog.

We will publish soon also more information about our culinary classes and other learning, touring and tasting activities at the Academia Barilla Culinary School - stay tuned!