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Products Derived from Snails, Food and More, even Cosmetics

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Products derived from snails. You can find huge snails farms close to the "Langhe region in Italy. Please search for "lumache di Cherasco".They make all sorts of things from snails, foods, sauces, condiments, and even cosmetics. All the stuff was seen at a food fair in Cherasco (CN) Italy

Views From the Best Food Market in Town, the "Tettoia dell' Orologio". Porta Palazzo, Torino, Italy

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  Views From the Best Food Market in Town, the "Tettoia dell' Orologio". Porta Palazzo, Torino, Italy

Most colourful Italian focaccia flat bread from Liguria

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Most colourful Italian focaccia flat bread from Liguria I found yesterday in Torino, Turin, Italy, some of the most colourful and more tasty focaccia flat breads ever seen in this shop right in the city centre: Focacceria Roberta Via San Tommaso 8,  Focaccia genovese Focaccia genovese , marked by its finger-sized holes on its surface is brushed or sprinkled with  olive oil , coarse salt, and sometimes water before the final rise. In Genoa, focaccia is eaten in the morning at breakfast or during the day. It is often dipped in milk or in cappuccino at breakfast and eaten warm and wet. Ligurian variants Focaccia has countless variations along the Ligurian coast, from the biscuit-hard  focaccia secca  ('dry focaccia') to the corn-flour, oily, soft Voltri version, some bearing little resemblance to the Genoese version. An extreme example is  focaccia col formaggio  ('focaccia with cheese'), also called  focaccia di Recco  ...

Chocolate Things seen at the Chocolate Fair in Turin, Italy

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I have seen in a few hours chocolate things that many humans cannot even imagine..... Turin, Italy, November 2015 Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588    

Chocolate and Dried Fruits. Yummy Things seen at Chocolate Fair, Turin, Italy

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Some of the best things seen and eaten at the Chocolate Fair in Turin were the tablets of dark chocolate with all sorts of dried fruits melted in. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

Gigantic Gianduia Chocolate Seen at the Chocolate Exibition in Turin, Italy

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This sweet montrosity was just too big not to be photographed. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

Chocolate Fair in Turin, Italy. HUGE "Cremino" Chocolate Spotted

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This kind of chocolates are ususally small and you can eat one whole in one bites. These monstrosity weighting a couple of kilograms each were spotted at the  Chocolate Fair  in Turin. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 The cremino is a type of chocolate consisting of three layers of chocolate, the outer ones of gianduja chocolate and the inner chocolate paste to coffee, lemon or hazelnut typically to form a cube then wrapped in a film of aluminum with a clamp of paper bearing the mark of the manufacturer. This chocolate was invented in the late nineteenth century by Ferdinando Baratti who had opened a distillery with partner Edward Milan-Turin confectionery as "Baratti & Milano" However, the first official documents date back only to 1934. Cremino is also linked to the automaker FIAT who in 1911 launched a competition between the chocolatiers of Italy to create a new chocolate at the launch of t...

Shoes and Handbags Made of Chocolate. Seen in Turin, Italy, at Chocolate Fair

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This is one of the funniest things seen at the Chocolate Fair in Turin, Italy. The shoes and handbags are made of chocolate. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

Funny Sweets at Chocolate Fair in Turin, Italy

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Funny chocolates seen today. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588