Industria Alimentare Capobianco
Staff Writer - November 1, 2006

The Company of the Month for November 2006 is the Industria Alimentare Capobianco, a company which selects Italian regional specialties produced according to ancient methods, respectful of local traditions.

Founded by Antonio Capobianco, the Industria Alimentare Capobianco has its headquarters in Bari, in the region of Apulia, and is distributed in the American Midwest by Utah-based Tony Caputo, and on the West Coast by WineCountry.IT import and distribution departments.

The pasta according to the Italians
The best durum wheat, carefully selected and transformed by knowledgeable pastai (pasta makers) according to traditional methods and mixed with flavorful, natural ingredients, which gives to it a touch of creativity and make the dish even more attractive. A variety of flavors and colors that brings joy to the dinner table.
 
   

The most important thing for the Industria Alimentare Capobianco and its founder, Antonio, is the quality of the products selected. In addition, Capobianco insists that the production follows ancient procedural methods, respecting time-honored peasant traditions in each of the provinces from where the products originate.

Looking through the catalog of this company is tantamount to taking an extraordinary journey which evokes timeless perfumes and flavors. Here are images and descriptions of products which offer surprising emotions, sensations that are too often lost in our current frantic lifestyle. The photographs of the pasta, made with bronze tools as in the old days, and the various colors obtained by adding natural ingredients such as beetroot, paprika, spinach, corn, squid ink, tomatoes, chile peppers, truffles, saffron, porcini mushrooms, salmon, and even chocolate, awaken one's fantasy and are mouthwatering.

Pasta

In addition to pasta, the Industria Alimentare Capobianco brings to the market a selection of fragrant baked products, sublime extra virgin olive oil, artisan-made salami, wild mushrooms, inviting vegetables preserved in extra virgin olive oil, classic pasta sauces and a variety of traditional regional cookies prepared according to ancient recipes. These products offer the flavor and taste of excellent ingredients, searched for with passion and transformed with love, to satisfy the most refined palates.

Pasta

Pasta
Specialità regionali (Regional Specialties)
Spaghetti, linguine, strascinati, gnocchetti sardi, trofie genovesi, strozzapreti emiliani, orecchiette pugliesi, cavatelli.
Trafilata a bronzo (Shaped with Bronze Implements)
Girandole, ruote, alberelli, cuori, cappello di cuoco, farfalle, occhi di lupo, lumaconi, gemelli, pennoni, paccheri, rigatoni.
Specialità all'uovo (Egg-based Specialties)
Tagliatelle, tajerini, garganelli tricolore, farfalle paglia e fieno, farfalle paglia e fieno multicolore, garganelli, garganelli paglia e fieno, garganelli paglia e fieno multicolori, soffiettoni.
Specialità dai colori tenui (Light Color Specialties)
Rotelloni, lumaconi ai 5 sapori, zucche ai 5 sapori, rigatoni tris, pennotti tris gigli ricci tris, girandole tris, pennoni tris, fusilli tris.
Specialità naif (Primitive Specialties)
Cresta di gallo 5 sapori, penne rigate 5 sapori, torchietti 5 sapori, ruote 5 sapori, farfalle 5 sapori, lumaconi 5 sapori, fusilli 5 sapori, trofiette 5 sapori, fiori 5 sapori, garganelli piccanti, pennine 5 sapori, orecchiette 5 sapori, soffietti 5 sapori.
Farfalle multicolore (Multicolored Butterflies [type of pasta])
Barbabietola e curcuma; spinaci e barbabietola; curcuma e semola; semola e paprica; semola, paprica e spinaci; nero di seppia e barbabietola; barbabietola, curcuma e spinaci; nero di seppia e curcuma; nero di seppia e semola; carioca, barbabietola e semola; spinaci e curcuma.
Spaghetti colorati (Colored Noodles)
Spinaci, pomodoro, tedeschi (nero di seppia, curcuma e barbabietola), nero di seppia, nero di seppia e curcuma, peperoncino, barbabietola, tricolore (pomodoro, spinaci e semola).
Tajerini colorati (Colored Tajerini [type of pasta])
Pomodoro, semola e spinaci; tartufo; paglia e fieno; pesto; zafferano; nero di seppia; salmone; funghi porcini.
Specialità al cioccolato (Chocolate Specialties)
Tajerini, farfalle, soffietti.

Other Products
Salumi (Cold Cuts)
Mediterranean sausage, spicy Mediterranean sausage, Mediterranean soppressata, spicy Mediterranean soppressata, capocollo.
Sottoli
Prodotti dal forno (Baked Products)
Sesame-flavored bread sticks, pizza-flavored flavored bread sticks, home-style flavored bread sticks, rosemary-flavored flavored bread sticks, olive-flavored flavored bread sticks, traditional tarallini (taralli are snack food, a type of bread common throughout the southern half of Italy. Tarallini = small taralli), fennel, chile-pepper-flavored tarallini, onion-flavored tarallini, pizza-flavored tarallini.
Biscotti glassati (Glazed Cookies)
Traditional, orange-flavored, lemon-flavored, pistachio-flavored.
Dolci (Cookies)
Bocconcini ripieni (stuffed delicacies), caramelized almonds, krumì, chocolate krumì, limoncello liqueur-flavored cookies, milk cookies, ferri di cavallo al cioccolato (chocolate-coated horseshoes.

Creme e sughi pronti (Spreads and Sauces)
Spreads: crab, lobster, walnuts, salmon, porcini mushrooms and truffles, prawns, porcini mushrooms, black olives.
Sauces: pheasant, here, deer, wild boar, roe deer, all'arrabbiata (hot and spicy), aromatic herbs, marinara-style , black and green olives, chile pepper, chile pepper and basil, porcini mushrooms.

Sottoli (Vegetables in Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
Porcini mushrooms, bell pepper, mushroom mix, artichokes with chile pepper, olives, eggplant, Italian hors d'oeuvres (vegetable mix), sundried tomatoes.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Ceramiche (Pottery)
Coffee



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