There are a lot of Italian cities that are famous thanks to typical products, traditional foods that attract tourist from all around the world.

Gianduia

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Turin is a city that offers so much in many field, from music to sport, passing by the famous Book Fair , a date to see well-known names and important events, but in Italian and moreover European terms, Turin is know for his candies and sweet dishes: chocolate and ice-cream city, out-and-out delicacies actually appreciated by the tourist. Every year in fact there are lots of fairs, exhibitions and meetings about their history, production and success, with photos, tasting, videos and all that is connected to one of the most consummated and appreciated food in the world.


THE CHOCOLATE REVOLUTION
It can’t be possible talk about it except calling it devolution when we think about chocolate, one we can find easily in a chocolate box, in a bakery or in a simply supermarket shelf. If today we all can eat chocolate tablets, chocolate candy and also all the common products with cacao, we have to say thanks to Pierre Paul Caffarel, the célèbre founder of “Caffarel”, big producer in the sweet area even today.
This man, after purchased an hydraulic machine, he used it for an aim that no one had thought before, namely  the creation of the solid chocolate. Up to then in fact chocolate was known only as drink. Hot chocolate at first was only owned by the Royal Savoia, only in a following period it had been allowed even to the nobility and then, after that, available even for the common middle-class.


GIANDUIA  E GIANDUIOTTO
However, this great personality hadn’t only the merit of having founded the chocolate innovating consume basis, but had also invented  “Gianduiotto”, the typical Turin chocolate, sold all over the world, obtained by chocolat and nuts. After being created, Gianduiotto became famous in all Turin during the Carnival festival, when Gianduia, the characteristic mask of the Carnival fascinated and delighted by it, asked for give it herself name  and began going down the streets gifting the first exemplars of this singular chocolate, generating  wonder and marvel in the people nearby.
From then until now, not only the name is the same but, even the flavor, famous all over the world. It can’t visit Italy without taste this chocolate in the traditional  chocolate shop of the city.


THE TURIN PINGUINO
Ice-cream wasn’t born in Turin, but in Sicily, in any case there’s also another important lap in the ice-cream history, another important product that you can eat following the real tradition only in this city. In 1939, the baker Domenico Pepino, invented the first ice-cream on a wood stick, the “Pinguino”, an ice-cream cover by a thin, chocolate layer, the first ice-cream consumable even walking, an innovative, good and original ice-cream at the same time, a tempting and refreshing products that can be found also today in his first form.
Obviously during the time many people used this genial idea, so you can see lots of variants and different flavors, but if you really want to taste the modern and commercial ice-cream “father” , you must taste the real Pinguino of Turin. Over that, you can also eat good ice-cream in the Antica Cremeria shops, where it has being produced  following the ancient recipes, with the creation absolutely handmade. A difference really clear for the glutton whose  will appreciate and will understand his real valor.

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