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The new Sale&Pepe Cookery School

An innovative space in the heart of Milan to put your #TalentoInCucina (talent in the kitchen) to the test

On Monday 11 May a free open day for the public from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm

The new Sale&Pepe Cookery School has opened in the heart of Milan and will be a point of reference for those who love food and looking for refined and authoritative gastronomic ideas. Sale&Pepe offers a unique experience, able to reach an increasingly large and varied audience of cooking enthusiasts through the magazine, with themed special issues, the Salepepe.it food portal, events, on mobile, an app, on social networks, and, from today, a range of new courses for those who want to try out their talent in the kitchen (#talentoincucina).

Courses and other initiatives will start this month in Milan dedicates to the art of cooking and created by the Sale&Pepe cookery school inside the exclusive location of Ca’puccino in Piazza Diaz 5.

“The Sale&Pepe Cookery School is the result of the experience gained by the magazine in almost 30 years, and expanding the offer available in the channels where the brand is already present,” declared Laura Maragliano, the editor of Sale&Pepe. “The new school will be a place where our advice can be put into practice: a meeting place, with loads of ideas aimed also at an international audience, to give expression to you passion,” Maragliano concluded.

On Monday 11 May, from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm, the Cookery School has organised an open day with free show-cooking open to the public, and to get to know the chefs and visit the new school: a place where tastes meet, talents can express themselves and a passion for cooking take shape.

The Cookery School courses

Thanks to a wide range of courses for adults and children, with menus for all occasions, also suitable for vegetarians and intolerances, it will be possible to learn new recipes and try to create dishes under the guidance of professional chefs.

Courses for adults, single-issue or over a series of lessons, offer lessons dedicated to the tastiest culinary themes, an all-round exploration of the recipes, techniques and tricks of real chefs, from “Street food at home” to “Around the World in the kitchen”. Among this year’s innovations are lessons in English aimed at foreign tourists visiting Milan who want to get to know and prepare the dishes that have made Italian cuisine famous around the world in all its culinary excellence, from pasta to pizza.

Each lesson foresees a final tasting of the dishes along with with a selection of Italian wines, and a free kit that includes an apron, recipe book and the school diary.

Courses for children are designed to encourage children to express their creativity through the tasting and handling of ingredients, stimulating their imagination with real games of taste. For adults who want to work with their children, the school offers duo courses, such as “Our picnic” and “Time for a snack”. And for children aged between 12 to 17 there are also lessons dedicated to the foods most popular with teenagers, from tortillas to pancakes.

For full information about courses and enrolment go to www.scuoladicucina.it.

Location

A short walk from the Duomo, in a technological space with sophisticated design, and equipped with workstations for the active involvement of each participant, the Sale & Pepe Cookery School is an ideal location not only to organise activities connected with the world of cooking but also for private or corporate events.

Partners

Ca’puccino was opened in 2006 and based on an idea by Giacomo Moncalvo: to combine the best of Italian cuisine in a welcoming, comfortable and refinedenvironment, reflecting the quality and taste of Italian design. Today Ca’puccino has 11 locations in Italy and 6 in London, including the unique location inside Harrods department store and the new Terminal 2 at Heathrow. Ca’puccino Piazza Diaz, opening in late May, will be the second location in Milan.

Arclinea is a partner of the Sale&Pepe Cookery School for the kitchen furniture and Neff for large kitchen appliances. The official sponsors are: Philips, Saeco, Consorzio latterie Virgilio, Emilia Zaini, AD Chini, Ortoromi con Insal’arte, Sambonet.

The Sale&Pepe Cookery School
c/o Ca’puccino, lower ground floor
Piazza Armando Diaz 5, 20123 Milano (M1/M3 Duomo)
Open Monday-Friday: 10-12 / 4-6
Tel: 02 75 42 33 00
@: info.scuoladicucina@mondadori.it
web: www.scuoladicucina.it

Donna Moderna makes its TV debut

From 4 May on La5 a new programme Donna Moderna Live from Monday to Friday at 7.45 pm

Monday 4 May sees the debut on La5 of a new programme: Donna Moderna Live, a lifestyle show inspired by the editorial formula of Donna Moderna, Italy’s most widely read women’s magazine.

“Donna Moderna Live is an extraordinary adventure for our magazine and all of us working every day in the service of the brand; writing for the web site, feeding the social network, interacting with the community and putting the magazine together every week,” declared Annalisa Monfreda, the editor-in-chief of Donna Moderna. “Television offers us an unexplored narrative opportunity while at the same time complementing everything we have done so far. There is content that only TV cane fully valorise. Moreover, the protagonists of Donna Moderna Live will be the journalists, contributors and experts that already surround the magazine: people who have the DNA of the magazine in their blood and are truly passionate about what they write. Now they have the chance to transmit that passion in a less mediated, more direct and emotional context.”

Donna Moderna Live, which is produced by Magnolia, is a television format in 40 episodes that will be broadcast from Monday to Friday at 7.45 pm. The programme, presented by, Lucilla Agosti, a radio presenter and speaker, aims to simplify and, at the same time, enrich the lives of viewers by providing practical advice and trends through features that are in synergy with Donna Moderna.

Donna Moderna Live is an original format created by Branded Content Unit Magnolia “We are extremely happy to be working with Mondadori on this new adventure and to bring the content and style of a magazine like Donna Moderna to television for the first time,” claimed Ludovica Federighi, Head of BCU Magnolia. “With Mondadori and the Donna Moderna team we have built an original format, able to transmit the themes covered by the magazine in a deeper and more exciting way, ensuring an innovative experience for readers and viewers.”

The features of Donna Moderna Live

Every day of the week a particular issue will be developed starting from a key word of interest for women – beauty, fashion, wellness, food, homes. Each of these themes will inspire the various slots that make up the programme: from Help, in which experts respond to readers questions, Tutorial, in which a range of coaches provide step by step guidance on how to use make up, execute a recipe, realise a look or a new idea for home decoration or find the ideal new sports activity to keep you in shape.

Each week Donna Moderna Live, will also follow day by day the transformation of a ‘normal’ woman into a “Donna Moderna cover star” thanks to the style, fashion and fitness suggestions of a Donna Moderna journalist. The Mondadori magazine is the only title on the market that highlights “normal women” in its fashion coverage. Mothers, wives, friends, singles, career women, with all their good and bad points, put themselves in the expert hands designers, stylists and photographers to realise the dream of becoming a “model for a day”. And Donna Moderna Live video coverage of this project is attracting enormous success.

And, of course, there will also be advice for Mothers and the world that surrounds them.

Another interesting slot full of ideas is certainly CasaFacile Interiors, inspired by the Mondadori magazine of the same name: a docu-reality that helps women to find solution for furnishing, reordering and personalising various elements of the home. With the valuable assistance of furniture stylists, readers/viewers can take ideas and tips to modify parts of their home, also thanks to a “Before & After” appointment that provides a detailed outline of all the steps required to transform a room and create the home you want.

Also Food, produced in cooperation with the magazine Cucina Moderna, will have a space in every episode of Donna Moderna Live. In the studio a food coach will prepare and explain a recipe, revealing the secrets of the most tasty dishes.

Donna Moderna Live also offers a cooking feature called Dedicated to in which a reader, helped and supported by a chef, will prepare a recipe to which she is particularly attached.

Donna Moderna Live is also fitness and wellness. Lessons for pilates, yoga, pole-dancing, belly dancing and tango will be available every day. There are so many way to keep yourself in shape and with this slot, in every episode and with the help of an expert, viewers can discover the secrets and characteristics of various activities.

An all-round programme for women that also recounts stories of women who have followed their dreams. Women who, with courage and determination, have taken on ambitious challenges: collective, in couples, professional, but in any case linked to personal satisfaction.

Donna Moderna Live can also be seen on the web site donnamodernalive.com, on social networks using the hashtag #donnamodernalive and on the Facebook and Twitter accounts of Donna Moderna.

A communication campaign for the launch of Donna Moderna Live has been put together that will appear in the press, on radio and TV, with promos on Mediaset channels, web and outdoor.

Donna Moderna Live, inspired by the Mondadori magazine Donna Moderna, is a programme created by Magnolia for La5. Executive producer Magnolia: Maurizio Gulino. Project chief: Agata Gambuzza. Director: Michele Rho.

Donna Moderna Live has been produced with the contributions of: L’Oréal – Gruppo Fini – Upim – De’ Longhi – Yes-Zee by Essenza – Acqua Vitasnella – Ghd.

The new CasaFacile.it makes its debut at the Milan Design Week

From this week you can enter the new CasaFacile “house-on-the-web”, even more practical, joyous and full of ideas with a shopping guide, DIYsuggestions and much more

The Milano Design Week will see the debut of the new CasaFacile.it. From this week you can enter the new CasaFacile “house-on-the-web”, which is now richer, even more practical and full of ideas, complete with a with a shopping guide, DIY suggestions and much more.

“It is a site that perfectly reflects our values, with features that we have published over the years, more detailed and extended treatment, all available at a click,” declared Giusi Silighini, editor of CasaFacile. “But there’s more: CasaFacile.it is a natural complement between print and the web. It is a house where you could find yourself at any time, a new home for the community, almost an extended family, like the one that has built up in recent years on Facebook,” Silighini concluded.

Casafacile.it will publish news and anticipations for all those who love interiors and daily living their home, helping users and readers to create their own style in a practical, smart and amusing way. And there are many new features, starting from the editor’s blog where Giusi Silighini will sniff out new trends and discover cool objects for the CasaFacile community. And our 24 bloggers will create all manner of things: from origami to washi tape, and from creative recycling to relooking spaces; our do-it-yourself and before & after video tutorials will become new online style schools; meanwhile the Shopping Guide section is an authentic personal shopper that will assist users to select household appliances and furniture that combine style and value; and, finally, it will also be possible to make online contact with CasaFacile architects for advice and suggestions.

The new and completely responsive site, which is consequently easy to use also in mobile, is available for all leading devices. The editorial approach has also been designed to facilitate special cross-media initiatives bale to actively engage users and readers. The brand CasaFacile also confirms its success on the advertising front with a performance that from January to March recorded an increase of +4% compared with the same period of last year, a result obtained also thanks to the important special initiatives developed in collaboration with the clients.

On newsstands soon “Icon Design”, a special issue of Icon to mark the Milan Design Week

Free for all readers of Panorama, as a supplement to the 16 April issue of the weekly

Icon, Mondadori’s upscale male lifestyle magazine, edited by Michele Lupi, is celebrating the Milan Design Week with a special issue, Icon Design, that will be free for all readers of Panorama. In fact, the special issue of Icon will be published as a supplement to the 16 April issue of the weekly, right in the middle of the Design Week.

“We started from the characteristics of Icon and have put together an original and uncompromising magazine that is both strong and has a vision that goes beyond the norm, an approach perfectly in line with the best design products,” declared Michele Lupi. “We have scoured the planet, contacted talented designers and hunted down stories to tell and houses to photograph, as well as small-scale designs able to change the quality of our lives, design items and genial prototypes: a focus on design in its broadest sense, applying the style that has always distinguished the personality of Icon,” Lupi concluded.

The cover of the magazine is dedicated to the Italian designer duo of FormaFantasma, who, according to the New York Times, represent the most interesting current in the design panorama in Italy. The two young designers offer an account of their ideas concerning the stylistic search applied to their creations directly from their studio in Amsterdam.

Meanwhile architecture becomes art, industrial design and storytelling of a unique excellence in the pages that Icon Design devotes, for example, to a house built on an extinct volcano that has a dreamlike quality; a small printing that produces books like no other using machinery that is part of the history of typography; the 40 metres of the world’s deepest swimming pool in Veneto; and the “missile with sails” that is Luna Rossa, catamarans developed with military aerospace technology, because – despite the withdrawal of the Italian team from the 2017 Americas Cup following changes to the technical regulations requested by the Defender Oracle – Luna Rossa will forever remain one of the great masterpieces of Italian design.

The issue will also feature record producer Rick Rubin – the rock guru behind the success of U2, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more – who tells Icon Design about the plans for his new home in Malibù.

Thanks to its upmarket positioning, Icon Design has attracted a positive response from the advertising market and includes leading Italian and international brands in the living sector and other sectors too. The magazine will be presented exclusively this evening at the PAC in Milan, where an exhibition by world-famous photographer David Bailey is currently running.

Interni at the Fuorisalone with the exhibition event “Energy for creativity”

With issue number 650 of April, the magazine renews its editorial formula with a new design and even richer content INTERNI confirms its leadership in the professional living segment with a market share of over 45%

“ENERGY FOR CREATIVITY” is the name of the big exhibition event organised by the monthly INTERNI during the FuoriSalone.

Supported by Expo Milano 2015 as a partner and with the patronage of the City of Milan, “ENERGY FOR CREATIVITY” will take place in the Courtyards of the University of Milan, from today until the 24 May.

A large number of world renowned architects and designers have been involved in the project, including: Daniel Libeskind with Libeskind Design, Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel and Partners with Gruppo Cosentino, Alessandro and Francesco Mendini with Deborah Milano, Piuarch with Marazzi, Luca Trazzi with Veuve Clicquot, Steve Blatz and Antonio Pio Saracino with Marzorati Ronchetti, Vetreria Bazzanese and Zordan, Bernard Khoury with Margraf, Philippe Starck with Tog, Kengo Kuma & Associates with Tjm Design – Kitchenhouse, Alessandro Michele with Richard Ginori and many more.

“Our exhibition event, which is now in its 18th edition, provides a space for experimentation for installations of different sizes, able to stimulate inter-disciplinary synergies,” says Gilda Bojardi, editor of INTERNI. “Alongside the display of models and prototypes, micro-architecture, indoor and outdoor pavilions, illuminated installations and video projections, will be also theme-based exhibitions, performances, conferences and meetings,” the editor concluded.

Co-producer of the initiative is the international foundation Be Open, which conceived and promoted The Garden of Wonders. A Journey through Scents, an exhibition about the relationship between perfume and design at the Orto Botanico in the Brera district of the city, and Audi. The latter has contributed with the Invitation Tower installation, designed and built by Audi Design, but above all with the Audi City Lab, a space in Via Montenapoleone where INTERNI will stage a series of events that will focus on design and its relationship with light, connectivity and creative digital disciplines.

With this exhibition event, which gives Milan a unique and extraordinary visibility, the INTERNI system confirms its absolute leadership in the professional living segment, with a market share of over 45% in terms of space in the period January-March 2015.

To reinforce the magazine’s role as a communication tool in the world of architecture and contemporary design, the latest issue of INTERNI will feature a new design and layout developed by art director Claudio Dell’Olio.

And with issue n° 650 of Aprile 2015, INTERNI renews also the editorial formula with a both a new layout and structure enriched with new features and background detail, such as the section PhotographINg with images as the protagonists: details of installations, designs and products, freely combined to present themes and ‘provocations’ from contemporary design. The pages specifically dedicated to design have been reinforced and given greater detail through interviews and thanks to the contributions of Italian and international journalists and critics, able to offer to the readers of INTERNI an increasingly multifaceted and inter-disciplinary reading of design.

An additional new feature announced to coincide with the FuoriSalone is the new internimagazine.com, which will exploit even more the potential of digital and the web, strengthening the ecosystem that revolves around the brand. The structure, design and content of the site has been completely reconfigured and a new version of the “Design Index” section will be created in order to bring together companies and professionals and becoming an important marketplace for the world of design.

In order to find your way around the ever richer array of events during the Milan Design Week, we couldn’t forget the Guida FuoriSalone® – which is also available as a free app for iPad and Android operating systems on tablets, smartphones and iPhone – which offers a systematic overview of more than 400 events and a day-by-day agenda of all the appointments involving the companies, designers and architects participating in the FuoriSalone, and the Guida Zee Milano (only in the digital version included with the app) with a selection of new itineraries and fashion spaces fashion around the city as it prepares for the Universal Exposition: from design to shopping, department stores and restaurants, as well as hotels.

Panorama announces the new edition of Panorama d’Italia, 10 stops on a tour of discovery of Italian excellence

The second edition will start from 25 March following the success of over 200 events, 3 million people involved and 100 million contacts established in 2014

Panorama, the newsmagazine edited by Giorgio Mulè, returns to the streets to discuss Italy from the territory. In fact, 25 March sees the launch of he new edition of Panorama d’Italia, the live media experience that will take to 10 Italian cities a calendar of initiatives and events to stimulate dialogue with citizens and establish a link with the excellence of Made in Italy and the world of business, the economy, culture, food and wine.

The first edition, in 2014, reached 3 million people with a total of 100 million contacts, and involving, at more than 200 events, 400 media organisations, 11 universities, 120 entrepreneurs, over 500 companies and 180 startups, as well as the participation of more than 300 prestigious guests and speakers, including 6 government ministers and 7 Regional Presidents.

“Last year,” declared the editor of Panorama Giorgio Mulè, “we gave a voice to the best of Italy in a revolutionary way, transforming cities into stages with live events integrated with the fabric of local life. And we did it in the best way we know how: presenting ourselves as what we are, with the strength and credibility of a brand that for over 50 years has recounted the country to itself, both its critical aspects and its opportunities. With this adventure in 10 new cities, we will continue to give voice and visibility to the future of Italy to those who create that future every day. We will also make our contribution to draw in young people to the world of business by bringing the best of both into contact,” Mulè concluded.

Also this year Panorama will dedicate in its pages extensive coverage of each of the cities on the tour, giving an account of its excellences ahead of the stop and, in the subsequent issue, a portrait of the city by a writer who will focus, each in his own way, on the characteristics of the place and its people. And, finally, there will be a detailed report about all of the events and guests involved, with photos of the four days that Panorama d’Italia has dedicated to the city.

The stops
In 10 stops, from March to November, Panorama will cross Italy from north to south. And to do so, the magazine will involve both local excellences and prestigious guests, moderated by the magazine’s journalists and columnists, directly in the places where citizens live out their daily lives.

For four days, each city will have a rich calendar of events at the most representative and lively locations and in close contact with the protagonists. The tour starts in Naples (25-28 March) before moving on to Vicenza (15-18 April), Pisa (6-9 May), Varese (27-30 May), Matera (17-20 June) and, after the summer break, Trento (9-12 September), Spoleto (30 September – 3 October), Modena (21-24 October), Bari (4-7 November), Palermo (18-21 November).

The Home of Panorama d’Italia
The nerve centre of Panorama d’Italia will be the new “Home” that for each stop on the tour will be set up in the main square of the host city: a totally transparent structure with a large table featuring a silhouette of Italy. Inside the lounge area is an infopoint accompanied by large screens that will project live streaming coverage of the events taking place across the city, the calendar with times and places and background detail and videos of events that have taken place. Plus, a special social wall will project the tweets and photos of participants who want to share their experience using the hashtag #panoramaditalia. The tablets positioned on the table in relation to the cities involved in the Panorama d’Italia tour will offer the public additional information and the possibility of signing up for the events on the programme. Useful information will also be provided by info panels and totems outlining details of events.

The events and new features of the 2015 edition
While the Home will be the focal point of Panorama for the entire duration of each stage of the tour, other areas of the city will host institutional events and debates with exponents of national significance from the world of politics and business. Prestigious authors of books about to be published will be the protagonists of special encounters with the public and space will also be given to personalities from the world of entertainment, musicians and singers. Actors and directors will enjoy a special space dedicated to cinema and run by Piera Detassis, editor of Ciak and president of the Cinema for Rome Foundation. Special attention in this new edition will be given to the designers and stylists that represent the excellence of the area and the best of Made in Italy and, on each occasion, catwalk shows and glamorous events will be organised in which such designers can display their personal interpretations of style.

Of central importance in each of the cities visited will be the contribution of the universities that will, on each occasion, host meetings with young startups, venture capitalists and experts in innovation to discuss the possibilities of creating businesses and the opportunities offered in the area. Among the new features this year will be the involvement of younger students: in fact:, in collaboration with Mondadori Libri, Panorama will donate 100 books to a school in each city, after having invited pupils in their last year to write a short essay on “Why Panorama should leave a “legacy” of 100 books to my school”. All of the contributions received will be read by the staff of the magazine and the most significant and original will be published in the weekly and on Panorama.it and will enable the school of provenance to claim the gift of 100 books, to be presented by the editor Giogio Mulè during the stay in the city.

Panorama d’Italia will also offer an opportunity to rediscover the beauty of the artistic heritage of the area, thanks to a guided tour by Vittorio Sgarbi of the most representative works of art. Space will also be given to the food and wine of the area with show cooking demonstrations by leading chefs and meetings with personalities from the world of food. Finally, every Saturday, the editor of Chi Alfonso Signorini will invite a personality from the world of entertainment for an exclusive talk show.

The entire calendar of events will also be offered by the special gift boxes Box For You, with which it is possible to buy a package that includes an overnight stay in one of the cities on the tour and privileged access to the most important events on the stop selected.

Panorama d’Italia online
The main events can also be followed live on Panoramaditalia.it and on the Panorama.tv channel. In fact, last year alone, more than 100 hours of events were broadcast in streaming, as well as realtime updates, photos and videos from each stop of the tour. Also this year, the site dedicated to the tour will feature an area for registration at the events that also provides and free three-month subscription to the digital edition of Panorama and inclusion in a prize draw for a Mediterranean cruise for two.

The main social networks can also be used to share impressions and experiences of the events of Panorama d’Italia using the hashtag #panoramaditalia. The Twitter account @panoramaditalia will also provide realtime commentary on all of the most significant moments involving the protagonists of the events.

The partners
Panorama d’Italia also benefits from the support of high level partners who share the commitment to enhancing the excellences to be found around Italy. They include: Autostrade per l’Italia, Banca Mediolanum, Enel, IBM, Invitalia, MSC Crociere, Università Telematica Pegaso and TgCom24 Mediaset. A charity partnership with the Lega del Filo d’oro will also accompany the tour on all of its stops. Moreover, at every city visited, media partnerships are in place with the leading local newspapers, TV and radio stations.

“Panorama d’Italia is organised in collaboration with Triumph Group International, for executive production, organisation and logistics, while the platform and digital strategy is managed by H2H.

The Panorama system continues to grow and announces what’s new in 2015

Icon and Flair, the upscale bi-monthlies of the Panorama system become magazines also with standalone newsstand distribution

Panorama, the newsmagazine edited by Giorgio Mulè, is preparing a 2015 full of new features, confirming the success of the “system” that has surrounded the brand with a combination of activities and editorial initiatives in print, online and across the country.

The first big news, in terms of timing, concerns Icon and Flair, the bimonthly upscale supplements to the Mondadori weekly, published six times per year and edited by Michele Lupi. Starting from the first issues of 2015, on 26 February for Flair and 5 March for Icon, the two titles will also be sold separately from Panorama at the price of €3.50, and then offered together with the weekly in the last week of the month.

This will reinforce the personality of the two magazines and enhance its positioning. With its new look, overseen by art director Davies Costacurta, Icon, in particular, will increasingly present itself as a point of reference for the contemporary man: a magazine that reflects beauty through fashion and style, offering iconic personalities and objects to be inspired by, through an increasingly sophisticated selection of content, images and original stories. But Icon is also a guide that guides the reader around the great passions of men (cars, sport, travel, books, and more), and is able to bring together a “club” of high-level readers, thanks to the web site Icon.panorama.it, increasingly rich in content, and the social pages around which a highly characterised community in terms of identity has grown up

Flair will also be on newsstands as a standalone magazine, confirming the success of its editorial formula: a magazine of style, art and culture, dedicated to women who love fashion in all its forms, a creative hub capable of bringing together the most relevant international talent and the new generations in photography, art, fashion and writing.

What the two magazines have in common is the international scope of the editorial offer: Icon is already available in Spain, launched in 2013, as a supplement to El Pais; and, in 2015, Flair will expand its distribution, with the texts in English attached, to major newsstands in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles and Seoul, as well as the luxury edition in the world’s most prestigious boutiques.

The success of the two magazines is only the first of the phenomena of the entire “Panorama system”, which this year will confirm its extensive nationwide coverage with the Panorama of Italy tour. After the success of last year, the magazine once again sets out to discover the excellence of the Italian provinces, with 10 new stages and a series of new initiatives on the calendar, featuring events and high-level guests.

The Panorama experience of contact with Italian industry has also inspired Panorama Academy, which, in collaboration with the IT university Pegaso, aims to train new professionals in line with the new demands of the labour market, through with master’s course with prestigious teachers and innovative teaching methods.

Along with the editorial activities and the activities around the country, the Panorama system is continuing to develop the online activities of all the areas related to the brand. Beginning with Panorama.it that in September 2014 introduced in a whole new philosophy, focused on an richer editorial offer and above all a way of conceiving advertising formats oriented to native advertising. Choices that in January 2015 saw Panorama.it record its best ever results in terms of unique users (4.9 million, +12% compared with January 2014) and page views (25.2 million, +51% on January 2014 ), according to certified data by Shinystat.

Meanwhile, pending the imminent launch of the web TV channel, PanoramaTV, also Panoramauto.it, continues to grow as a reference point for motoring enthusiasts. Also here, January 2015 was a record month, with more than 1.2 million unique users, up 19% on January 2014 (certified data by Shinystat).

Strengthening the online personality, there is also the strong presence on social platforms, with the Panorama profiles and all those related to the brand of the entire system, guaranteeing an essential gateway to online content and participation in the various activities.

Sale&Pepe and the Cooking School present “Tastes & Aromas from Around the World”

From Monday 9 February to Monday 27 April, a cycle of encounters with special guests that preview the Clusters of Expo Milano 2015 at Un Posto a Milano, the restaurant inside the Cascina Cuccagna

Sale&Pepe, Italy’s leading cooking monthly leader, presents a series of initiatives, free encounters, show-cooking events and editorial specials for a closer look – just a few months ahead of the biggest international event of the year – at the countries participating in the Clusters of Expo Milano 2015 and their culinary assets.

For the first time in the history of the Universal Exposition, during Expo Milano 2015 the countries participating in the event without their own pavilion will be grouped in 9 Clusters along 6 specific food lines and in three thematic groupings.

The country and the food, the origins and the uniqueness of raw materials and products, with traditional recipes, will be previewed by Sale&Pepe and its Cooking School with Tastes & Aromas From Around the World, a cycle of free events that will take place between 9 February and 27 April at the Un Posto a Milano restaurant in the Cascina Cuccagna. On each occasion one of the Clusters of Expo Milano 2015 will be presented, with special guests, cooking performances and guided tastings to discover the specialities of the exhibiting countries, also with the support of the Sale&Pepe chefs.

The Clusters of Expo Milano 2015 will be featured on the pages of Sale&Pepe with four specials in four consecutive issues, starting with the February issue. While salepepe.it will showcase an online thematic channel with background detail related to the specials with video recipes from around the world, interviews with the protagonists and photo-galleries from the events.

Tastes & Aromas From Around the World – the encounters

Monday 9 February: Bio-Mediterraneum: Health, Beauty and Harmony

Monday 16 February: Islands, Sea and Food

Monday 2 March: Agriculture and Nutrition in the Arid Zones

Monday 9 March: Cereals and Tubers – Old and New Crops

Monday 16 March: Rice – Abundance and Security

Monday 23 March: Fruits and Legumes

Monday 30 March: Spices – The World of Spices

Monday 20 April: Coffee – The Engine of Ideas

Monday 27 April: Cocoa and Chocolate – The food of Gods

The complete programme is available on www.salepe.it/expo-2015 e www.expo2015.org.

Follow the initiative also on social media: #saporieprofumi #Expo2015.

Expo 2015 SpA is the company that is organising and will mange the Universal Exposition to be held in Milan from 1 May to 31 October 2015. The company is engaged in the preparation and construction of the site of the Expo and the technological work involved. Over 140 countries from around the world have confirmed their presence at the event. For more information and updates on the theme of “Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life” and the activities of Expo 2015 SpA please go to www.expo2015.org.

Sale&Pepe is Italy’s leading upscale food and cooking monthly, and a point of reference for all those who love eating and are curious about exclusive and refined gastronomic delights, presented every month with an attention to detail and high quality photographs. In 2011, the experience of Sale&Pepe saw the creation of it Scuola di Cucina (a cookery school) with courses where young and old can learn to choose the ingredients and test their skills in the kitchen, guided by the magazine’s chefs and qualified teachers. The world of Sale&Pepe also includes the food portal Salepepe.it with Salepepe.tv, which features video recipes; the thematic specials Sale&Pepe Wedding, Sale&Pepe Veg, Il meglio di Sale&Pepe, and a series of illustrated books Sale&Pepe Collection.

Vittorio Castellani is also know as Chef Kumalè. Journalist, writer and scholar, he is a “gastro-nomad” sans frontiére: he has travelled the world and tasted and observed the preparation of food from all corners of the earth. He defines himself as a storyteller, and it is precisely for his ability to tell a story that evokes far away lands and aromas that Sale&Pepe has chosen him as a special guide to the Clusters of Expo2015. www.ilgastronomade.com

Cascina Cuccagna is one of the oldest farmhouses in Milan. After being abandoned for many years, a careful and extensive recovery plan, entirely financed by the Associazione Consorzio Cantiere Cuccagna, it once again opened its doors to the city in 2012. It has since become a much-loved meeting place that is the site for a range of different events and activities related to food, culture and the land. A place that re-examines the relationship between the countryside and the city and a centre for the promotion and enhancement of sustainable lifestyles. www.cuccagna.org

Un Posto a Milano – food, bar & accommodation at Cascina Cuccagna The menu and dishes are based on the traceability of the best possible seasonal resources from the countryside. Bread, pasta and desserts are all made on the premises. Many dishes are vegetarian and gluten-free. And the chef is Nicola Cavallaro. The rooms look out onto the courtyard of the farmhouse, and there are 16 beds in small and large rooms where people have been sleeping well since 1695. A welcome and food experience managed by esterni. The restaurant a nd bar are open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 am to 1 am. Closed on Monday. www.unpostoamilano.it

The new Sorrisi.com now online

A completely redesigned digital system with live news, TV guide, backstage videos and exclusive interviews and images

TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, a few days ahead of the start of the Sanremo Festival, has launched Sorrisi.com, its new, even more interactive and complete digital system, dedicated to the world of entertainment.

“Sorrisi has always been a unique, exclusive and privileged point of entry into the world of TV, music and the cinema. And what better time for us, if not the week of the most anticipated event of the year for the Italian pop song, to launch our new web site,” underlined Aldo Vitali, editor of TV Sorrisi e Canzoni. “The new Sorrisi.com will be a direct line between the leading protagonists of show business and our public: an innovative, reliable and exhaustive guide to keep up to date with the latest hot topics, previews and the most recent trends in the world of entertainment, as reèresented by the artists themselves,” Vitali concluded.

With a completely new layout, Sorrisi.com is a fully-responsive site, with a high-impact, full-screen home page and more extensive images. It is arranged over three areas – TV, music and cinema – that guarantee complete coverage of all the principal show business categories, in addition to the exclusive“TV Guide” and the “On newsstands” feature, with highlights from the magazine world.

It is an integrated multi-channel project that will be enhanced in the near future by an app that will be able to identify the user’s taste and highlight the best programmes, strengthening the brand’s leadership also in digital.

To mark the Sanremo Festival, the new Sorrisi.com will provide live coverage of the most important event of the year for Italian music, with live news, exclusive interviews and images, curiosities, previews and backstage videos. Plus, the new digital platform of Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni will enable users to interact and live their passion for the music of the Festival with an offer that, from the pages of the magazine will be reinforced in the digital world and on social media, where it already has a fan base of 195,000 likes on Facebook and 120,000 followers on Twitter.

Moreover, the established link between TV Sorrisi e Canzoniand the Italian Song Festival will be renewed once again this year with the most anticipated cover that features an exclusive photo of all the big stars in the competition. And, of course, there will be interviews with both the stars and the presenters of the event, previews of the words to the songs, and complete coverage from the stage of the Ariston Theatre, with backstage gossip and curiosities about the performers and the winners.

Annalisa Monfreda, editor of Donna Moderna, takes over the editorship also of the weekly Starbene

From today editorial responsibility for the weeklies Donna Moderna and Starbene will be combined under Annalisa Monfreda, currently the editor-in-chief of Donna Moderna.

At the same time, the editorship of Confidenze will be passed to Susanna Barbaglia, already the title’s deputy editor.

Mondadori wishes to thanks Cristina Merlino for the years spent at the helm of Starbene and the web site Starbene.it.