Milan, April 6th Berlucchi from 7.30 pm at Mercato Duomo 
Davide Oltolini
will host a wine tasting featuring the classic
Brut, Rosee and Saten Franciacorta Berlucchi ’61,
and including the new Nature, with five exquisite dishes large tapas like,
spanning from cold cuts, to veggies, to cheeses that representing
the Italian excellence in the world of gastronomy.
The event will take place in the beautiful Franciacorta Lounge
right on Piazza Duomo.
35 Euros
THE SWEETEST DOVES COME FROM ITALY!

A delicious colomba (Easter Dove Cake) by Loison
Check my article in Zester Daily
http://zesterdaily.com/cooking/a-new-twist-on-italys-traditional-easter-cake/
Easter Colomba and Italian wines classes by Diana
Colomba is a traditional Italian Easter yeast bread. It is shaped like a dove (colomba in Italian), the symbol of peace and resurrection.Soft and fragrant, colomba is a generous cake with butter and eggs, filled with raisins and candied orange peel.
The colomba could mean not only a peace message but also solidarity. Like in the case of the artisanal Colomba Arcobaleno (Rainbow Dove) created by the Milanese sommelier Diana Zerilli who supports gay rights and gay issues in Italy, such as marriage and child adoption. Her colomba is made with Sicilian Avola almonds, Calabria cedar, kneaded with Vernaccia Mormoraia, a traditional white wine from San Gimignano,
Beside food, Diana passion and expertise is (of course) wine. Twice a week, she gives classes and wine tasting at Hotel Rubens in Milan.
Each class will introduce an Italian region, with its local wines and food.
Here the current calendar
March 10th Wines from Valle d’Aosta
March 17th Wines from Veneto and Diana’s Chiantigno drink tasting
March 22th Wines fron Piemonte.
Classes will continue in April, after Easter Holidays.

Each class costs 35 Euros.
If you are interested, you can contact Diana at zerillisommelier@gmail.com
Destination: Cirkopolis. Cirque Éloize conquers Milan
An amazing, long journey is taking away the audience of Teatro Arcimboldi in Milan.
The voyage is guided by the spectacular cast, music, lights, and visual effect created by the Cirque Éloize Cirkopolis, a nearly two hour show directed by Jeannot Painchaud and Dave St-Pierre. It starts off with a back projection of a dreary factory populated by a crowd of people in grey overcoats designed by Liz Vandal, while an employer is constantly stamping documents at his office desk. It reminded me of a scene of the recent movie Anna Karenina as well as Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and the underground world of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. The amazing video screen by Alexis Laurence follow the action with an intense zooming through buildings or tunnels, giving us the feeling of moving through space. Cirkopolis is taking us to forests, machines, buildings and finally a black and white circus tent.The 10 member extraordinary cast of acrobats and dancers use ropes, trapeze, a Chinese pole, teeter-board German wheel in a variety of different acts that are pretty astonishing to behold.
One of the most touching moment is a romantic and unexpected pas de deux with a male dancer and a woman dress on a hanger. The great music by Stefan Boucher and the active choreography created by Dave St Pierre follow and animate constantly the show, like a modern ballet interacting with the balancing acts.
At Teatro Arcimboldi till February 24th
JUMPING WITH DUUM

Sonics are the actor/dancer Antonio Villella aka Serafino and eight extraordinary aerial acrobats.
Their new show is called DUUM and pays homage to the imaginary
underworld of Agharta.
Sonics will bring on stage some breathtaking aerial acrobatics trying to make the Duum, the jump towards the earth surface.
Duum is actually the sound of a jump. always invent new expedients searching for the right vibration, the secret that will make them leave the underworld forever.
I loved the show, the music and the costumes, created by Ileana Prudente and
Irene Chiarle
DUUM will be performing at Teatro Carcano in Milan till Sunday Jan 31th, then will take the Italian tour to Faenza, Bologna, Cividale, Tolmezzo, Sacile, Varese, Forlì.
Here You can check the full Duum Tour schedule.
“I am Romagnolo” 30 wines of Romagna
From Friday Feb 26th to Sunday 28th “Wine Festival I am Romagnolo” where quality food and wine enthusiasts will enjoy local Sangiovese, Albana, Pagadebit and more Try the wines of 30 wineries of Romagna, dozens of winemakers of the territories of Forli, Faenza, Cesena, Ravenna and Rimini
Entrance to the Festival is free.
Info at Sono Romagnolo

HAPPY 90, JERRY !
Happy Birthday Mr. Lewis: The Kid Turns 90
Jerry Lewis, the eternal adolescent, awkward and elegant, knowing and naïve, exhilaratingly brash and painfully shy. His energy and unpredictability was always there, a threat and a promise.
March 16 is Lewis’s 90th birthday, an occasion MoMA is celebrating with a retrospective of some of his finest films, all presented in rare 35mm prints.

Each program comes with a surprise: selections of outtakes, screen tests, home movies, and behind-the-scenes footage chosen by Robert Furmanek, Mr. Lewis’s personal archivist of many years.
Düsseldorf Wehrhahnline it’s alive!
After Fifteen years of planning and construction,
Düsseldorf has completed an extraordinary collective undertaking.
On February 20th, 2016 the City and its Mayor Thomas Geisel, will celebrate the opening of the Wehrhahnline, a new metro link that will run beneath the city centre, over a distance of 3.4 kilometres boasting six stations collaboratively designed by artists and architects.
20th 2016 at 12 pm, Station Heinrich-Heine-Allee
BOWIE FOREVER
Indian Cinema: a powerful tale and a sweet, fat, love story

From Febuary 12th till 19th Spazio Oberdan in Milan, presents a selection of the
River to River Florence Indian Film Festival.
The opening day will give a tribute to two great Indian directors
Deepa Mehta and Sharat Katariya

Water. at 4,30pm
Directed by Deepa Mehta.
Set in 1938, when India was still a colony and Mahatma Gandhi was beginning its ascent. The little eight year old Chuyia is sent to live in a house where the Hindu widows must live in eternal penance.Nominated at the 2007 Oscar.
Check the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewNn2r2P3g
Dum Laga Ke Haisha at 9,00pm
Directed by Sharat Katariya.
A funny story that revolves around the life of a small town couple. From overcoming his fear of the English language to dealing with an overbearing father, Prem discovers that his oversized wife, Sandhya, who he thought was a spanner in his business and life, will actually lead him to something cool.
Check the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ycJVEHq-w
a “drunky” panettone!
Meet Diana Zerilli, promoter, food events creator and wine connoisseur.
Among his biggest hits, Eatingfrienship & Wines, tasting of Tuscan wines of Mormoraia Bocale held in Hong Kong in 2014. Specialist in relations between the producers of Italian wine, olive oil and homemade pasta with foreing markets including New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, among others.
As a writer, Diana published “I messaggi della buonanotte”, 
a book about friendship and maternal love,
entirely made through a text messages collection.
Diana just released a new book out called “21 grammi” a collection of dishes that combine food to selected Tuscany wines. 

For the Holidays, Diana created one of a kind Vernaccia Panettone, the traditional Christmas cake, enriched by a generous quantity of raisins that have been macerated in the S.Giminiano Mormoraia Vernaccia white wine, to enhance the cake fragrance.
Available by order at zerillisommelier@Gmail.com
or at the five5Senses Store,
located inside the Barclays Teatro Nazionale in Milan.
LUXURY RIGA, LATVIA’S CAPITAL
THE ITALIAN GOLDEN BREAD FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Pandoro. In Italian means golden bread.
It’s the traditional Italian sweet cake of Veronese origins, most popular during the holidays. A traditional taller leavened cake, that when cut is the shape of star. Pandoro is baked in a special star-shaped mold. 
When sprinkled with confectioners’ sugar, it has the appearance of fallen snow on a mountain. Pandoro may be served with many types of creams or sauces, such as mascarpone topping, melted chocolate,or flavored whipped cream
or rum or filled with ic cream or custard.
I tried the amazing Fraccaro Pandoro, incredibly soft and hairy, thanks to 72 hours to slow rising and natural, with yeast, make a sweet Pandoro Fraccaro unique and inimitable.The softness of the dough sourdough with fine fresh butter, golden color and the star shape, decorated with a dusting of powdered sugar,
makes this cake the perfect dessert to celebrate the Holidays.
You can find this great cake at Fraccaro Store Circonvallazione Ovest, 25/27 -Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso
LONDON TEDDY BOYS ARE BACK ! BUSINESSMEN NEVER IRON!
The Eleventy Men’s SS 2016 collection is inspired by the London Teddy Boys of the 1950s, who brought back the notion of dressing well always and everywhere, creating their own hallmark style inspired by that of the dandies of the Edwardian era.
Dark jackets, drainpipe pants, waistcoats and major focus on details, biker jackets in washed black nappa, with zips flaunted as crucial elements,
For the man who is always on the go, Eleventy proposes a range of suits, jackets and pants made from precious wools that have been specially treated to enhance their resistance to atmospheric agents and insulation, so that they become no-iron and are never creased.
www.eleventy.it/en/
Magic for the inner child within you
“Festival della Magia” a Festival of Magic hosted by comedian and magician Raul Cremona, brings to the stage some of the most interesting Italian magicians.
From Aldo Nicolini aka Uncle Potter
, who mysteriously loses his head,
to the flamboyant Ottavio Belli
who enchants the audience with daring disappearances through blades of fire.
From Shezan who creates from nothing a dozen of lanterns,
to the 14 year old Elisa Rossi playing her amazing Chinese rings,
to Mirko Menegatti’s traditional games with the doves.
The poetry of Clown Carillon opens and closes the show with a triumph of soap bubbles 
while the great host Cremona performs some magic numbers.
A special applause to an irresistible comedian GianLuca “Felipe” Beretta, who plays a dumb viewer involved in some tricks.
“A show is not only for children, but also for the inner child
within any adults” Cremona said.
Till January 6th 2016 at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan.
Here Info for time schedule and tickets
Will Prince Désiré wake up the princess Aurora who falls asleep for a hundred years?
Sleeping Beauty, a ballet masterpiece with the wonderful music of PI TCajkovskij
and the iconic choreography of Marius Petipa will enchant again Milan audience
thanks to one of the most famous ballet companies in the world,
the New Classical Ballet of Moscow
featuring Stetlitsa Evgenii and Olga Kifiak,
both first soloists of the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kiev,
while the finale will bring some very special Guests such as
Puss in boots and White Cat, Cinderella and the Prince
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.
The New Classical Ballet of Moscow is a young company with the aim of developing the great tradition of classical Russian ballet, but also seek new choreographic forms. The Ballet is made up of dancers from the best dance Academies in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Perm, winners of international competitions among etoiles from the best theaters in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg.
A magical fairy tale not to be missed.
At Teatro Manzoni in Milan
January 7th, 2016 at 9.00 pm
For info and tickets http://www.teatromanzoni.it
RAPUNZEL Remember this name…..
Successful return of the beloved family show “Rapunzel” a musical inspired to the Grimm Brother tale, revisited by Alessandro Procacci, Davide Magnabosco e Paolo Barillari.Great Cast starting with Lorella Cuccarini as the evil Gothel,
Alessandra Ferrari as Rapunzel, while the role of Rapunzel child, is greatly performed by 9 years old Valentina Critelli the winner of a popular TV Italian kid contest“Ti Lascio una Canzone”.
as Phil, a young robber who is trying to escape the royal guards and sheltering refuge in an old tower, where he will find Rapunzel , a young girl keep imprisoned by a witchy aunt.
There are a lots of new characters, like the two talking flowers, theguard “Hound” who speaks in Grammelot and the mirror “Spiegel”, which reflects
the conscience of Rapunzel and inner thoughts.
In addition to that I loved some cartoon animated outdoor sequences Great Idea!
Welcome to The Hole! If you’re not in the hole…you cannot get out of it!
Milan. Over 16 years old Italians are going crazy for THE HOLE, a sexy, shameless, provocative and terribly funny 2 hours Club-Circus-Theatre-Burlesque-Cabaret show playing now at the Teatro LinearCiak,
turned into a club with tables and chairs for eating some serrano ham
or sipping a drik while watching the show.
Out of the ordinary, then, it is the story that binds the amazing stage performance of extraordinary artists who animate it: an Rocky Horror lookalike Master of ceremonies (the brave Filippo Strocchi) exhausted by a life of excess, find true love WITH with Maria Dolores, a sweet rabbit! He decides to put his head in place, proud to present to friends and to the world the new love. 
The brazen hedonist organizes a big party at his villa to announce to those present and to the public, maintained by the sensual and governed by stalwart butlers ready to perform acrobatics and strip. The guests arrive and …what a croud. From two lesbo sexy acrobats
, to a Fellinian clown singer, to an incredibly horny beast-boy who dares to show off his male attributes, to a fatty flying Marilyn, to four hilarious waiters and their accurate acapella version of Italian hits, to…more and more.
Even the intermission is a very funny moment where performers mingle with audience, allowing and encouraging to take hot and provocative selfies.

The foyer is home every night after a show, animated by dj-set of the same artists who perform in a big red mouth used as a console.
Filippo knows how to entertain the audience with songs , lyrics and an intriguing charme.
For more info Teatro LinearCiak

MAGIC IN THE BOTTLE The amazing work of Eric Maillet revealing an undiscovered side of plastic bottles.
Photographer Eric Maillet author of superb images for legendary perfumes such as Dior, Giorgio Armani, Ives Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Hermes, not to mention the jewelry and the watches by Cartier. A genius…with a quite unique passion: plastic bottles!
Let me explain.
Spazio Eventi of the Pirelli Tower is hosting the amazing exhibit Water is Life,
that includes 25 artworks by Maillet. 
The Artist uses a common water bottle to create an abstract, unexpected, colored, and different image.
Those sequence of circles, let your imagination fly towards cathedral mosaics, glass windows, extraterrestrial flowers, kaleidoscopical trompe l’œil and imaginary new planets.
I met with Maillet last night and I could not not ask about the story of those surreal creatures that were hypnotising the viewers.
With an adorable smile, Maillet revealed the secret. “They are just multi colored water bottles, I love to discover, collect, and fill them up with water, then I shoot from the top”



Eric Maillet
The exhibit Water is Life is produced by Mario Rescio and André Werther, and curated by Lele Del Fabbro in collaboration with Regione Lombardia.
Till 18 January 2016 at Spazio Eventi of the Pirelli Tower in Milan.
Entrance Via Fabio Filzi 22. Monday to friday from 1.00 pm to 7.00 pm
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STOP GMOs
Slow Food says : “It’s a matter of democracy
as well as ensuring food sovereignty”
December 16, the European Parliament supported in great majority the objection proposed by the European Parliament’s environment committee to the decision of the European Commission to authorize the new GM maize variety NK603xT25. This is not a binding decision but it underlines a strong political act. In fact, Slow Food condemns the European Commission not only for the authorization of the two new GMO crops*, but also because it has disregarded the on-going objection process of the European Parliament, the institution which is directly elected by the European citizens and which expresses the points of views of the European people. 
The fact that the delegates of the Member States in the European Commission have overlooked the worries and concerns of European citizens is something that should not happen in an institution that claims to be the guiding voice of democracy





