Quick Take — The Gastronaut brings real Genovese to the home pantry: when the retailer innovates before the industry

There is a sauce that everyone in Naples knows, that perfumes homes for hours on end, that requires almost monastic patience and dedication. A sauce that, paradoxically, has only the name of Genoa and, what is simple, only the ingredients. It is the Genovese, one of the pillars of Neapolitan cuisine, celebrated on TV and social media, but still largely unknown outside the borders of Campania.

Until now, those who wanted to taste a real Genovese had to either go to Naples or resign themselves to spending an entire day at the cooker amidst onion tears and endless waiting. Then came the intuition of Gasbarrino and Nicotra, the creative duo who, for the Decò chain , develop both the private label line and the top of the range, Il Gastronautaread the whole story here

Le Ossa dei Caprotti’ presentation – Soroptimist, 29 October 2025

I really stopped. During that long difficult period we talked about earlier, I stopped completely. It was a time of silence, of isolation. But then, with the end of the court case and Covid, I chose to look forward. I decided to see the Covid crisis as an opportunity to help. From there my personal rebirth and my work in the Guido Venosta Foundation was born

Caprotti and the Coop: Turiddo Campaini, an ‘enemy’ and a master

'The experience in Florence is a great school for me also because the opponent we faced was, at the time, one of the most efficient and competitive: the Unicoop administered and managed by Turiddo Campaini. An aggressive Coop with a strong local policy, efficient and market-oriented. Tuscan products are the norm but there is no shortage of Chinese ones, for the large community distributed between Prato and Campi Bisenzio