If you live in the Chicago Area, try not to miss tomorrow, Thursday April 17, Gourmet Food and Wine Pairing, a gourmet event at Sam’s Wines in Lincoln Park. Academia Barilla will be at the event to offer to the participants some tasting samples of Italian gourmet specialties.

Sam’s Wines is very famous for its large selection of fine wines and spirits, and for their great gourmet food store, where of course you can find Academia Barilla’s fine Italian specialties.

Italian Culinary Specialist and Iron Chef judge Mario Rizzotti will be on location with a gourmet selection of Italian specialty food to match the incredibly tasty Sam’s wines selection.

Sam’s Wines event will be held at their Chicago Lincoln Park flagship store in Clybourn Corridor District near Goose Island, from 5 to 8pm on April 17.

The address to the location is 1720 North Marcey Street, Chicago, IL 60614; the Google map here below should be of help for detailed driving directions. For more info call Sam’s Wines at +1 (312) 664-4394.

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!