Categoria: MEMO | Maddy Bee

The summer now consumed has seen several anniversaries in the hotel sector, but the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, an emblem of exclusivity and glamor in the heart of the French Riviera this summer celebrated its 150th anniversary in a renewed guise. It is located halfway between Marseille and the Italian border on the coast of the Riviera clearly identifiable by the pink plaster, a myth for style holidays. Always frequented, even recently, by famous people including Ernst Hemingway, Rodolfo Valentino, Picasso and many others. The architect Patricia Anastassiadis to celebrate the anniversary  has rethought some emblematic spaces finding a dialogue between past and present. Fascinating and exclusive to see.

The “Gastronomic September” will be in Parma until 27 September, a month of culture of good food, insights and initiatives related to the promotion of the excellence of the territory. The Gastronomic September 2020 focuses on the appeal of the gastronomic excellences of the Food Valley as a lever of territorial marketing: the trait d’union will be the culture of food, exemplified by the PDO Prosciutto di Parma and Parmigiano Reggiano, pasta and tomato supply chains, milk and anchovies . But not only! A dinner show with the opera director Gianmaria Aliverta and musical events in collaboration with the Teatro Regio di Parma are also scheduled.
The ho.re.ca operators will be the storyteller in the kitchen. from Parma, starting from the 30 restaurateurs of the Parma Quality Restaurants circuit.

Today is the last day of August, and summer is almost upon us, the Italian cities have been emptied as always. But this year many have spent the summer in an urban dimension or only with short-haul holidays, perhaps a choice due to the consequences of Covid. However staying in the city was not so bad with aperitifs organized on the terraces of important Milanese hotels and picnics among the skyscrapers of City Life spectacularly organized by Peck. In short let’s face it, it was a good summer for everyone.

It is the perfect season to enjoy an ice cream: by the sea, in the mountains, in the city. Even at home. In its multiplicity of flavors, ice cream that not only represents one of the excellence of Made in Italy, but sees the first consumers in the world in Italians. During the lockdown, however, ice cream reinvented itself as a pleasure to be enjoyed even at home, recording positive results precisely in delivery. From the start of the lockdown to today, Deliveroo has recorded an increase in the number of orders of around 58%, an increase that rises to over 100% when compared with the same period of last year.

Transit places but far from being the “non-places” of Marc Augé, Italian railway stations are recognized all over the world. Starting from Milan Central Station, with its fascist-style building contaminated with contemporary elements, thanks to a renovation dating back to 2000, in Bologna Centrale known for the attack which marks the 40th anniversary of August 2nd. In the middle, the most modern and avant-garde railway stations such as Reggio Emilia Av Mediopadana and Naples Afragola, born at the time of high speed and signed by archistar. Also worth mentioning are the “historical” ones such as the Central Station of Palermo, designed at the end of the nineteenth century.

The Masterpiece art and antiques fair – a London event not to be missed by fans and professionals – this year was held entirely online. First among the fairs in its sector that, following the example of art and design, could follow its example. A sector that is increasingly opening up to a young and geographically transversal audience. Like the one gathered in the Young Collectors Club, «a club open to collectors up to 45 years of age that currently welcomes about eighty members and has among its objectives two-monthly meetings for members and the ambitious goal of stimulating and in some way training a new generation of collectors ». In the meantime, Masterpiece sales have gone well.

For the first time, the Leopardi family opened the most intimate spaces of the house to the public; the new tour runs through rooms that have been exclusively domestic to date.  The descendants of Giacomo Leopardi, now represented by Olimpia Leopardi, have decided to open the most intimate spaces of the Palazzo di Recanati to the public, where the poet was born and lived the first years of his life. “Our family has lived continuously within these walls since the 12th century. I have lived in it since I was born and, despite having traveled and resided in various places, this is the place I always return to. For me, Recanati is a fixed point, a place where time flows at a different, relative speed. Something that has not changed since Giacomo’s time and that we have all tried, is the desire to discover what we imagine is beyond the door of one’s home, and this curiosity has always led men to extraordinary impulses; the same impulses that the Poet experienced ”.

On the beach, the snack becomes smart. Gourmet proposals with quality ingredients, packaged with Atp technology. The first pilot project involves the activation of the service in favor of the bathing establishments and tourist structures of the Riviera Romagnola, in the stretch of coast between Ravenna and Riccione. A new service for lunch on the beach that simplifies the catering of the over 10,000 Italian bathing establishments. Elior, leader in catering in Italy, for this summer offers ready-made lidos, both in multi-portion and in sealed single-portion, for the managers to offer customers a quick, fresh and above all safe break, which can be comfortably consumed at the table or at the umbrella.