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 was born out of necessity....
After having spent years searching for the top-quality Italian food specialties I grew up with and those that I had heard about from my Italian-born parents, it was clear there was a need to find and provide unique, all-natural Italian gourmet food specialties. This site is dedicated to my parents and the love of good food and family that they passed on to their children.
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As the years go on, there are fewer of the first Italian immigrants that brought their family recipes and understood the necessity for fresh, all-natural ingredients. It is also more difficult now to find and enjoy authentic Italian dishes. Microwave ovens, shortcuts to preparing foods, low-cost flavorless ingredients, genetically modified foods and manmade preservatives, all push us ever farther from what Italian food was meant to taste like.
It’s no coincidence that traditional Italian Sunday dinners are long. The preparation is almost as important as the consumption itself – no frozen ingredients, no microwaves, no prepared foods and often no recipes. That, coupled with the time needed to argue over the best way to prepare a particular dish, makes for a long process. Once all the effort to prepare the meal has been expended, the dinner itself is a time to savor each bite and enjoy the company of family. "Tutti a tavola a mangiare (Everyone to the table to eat)!"
Joe and Tina Cozzolino, Italy
What makes a great Italian dish is the Italian earth, sun and water that feed the ingredients, and the love and patience taken to put it all together. No amount of additives or hothouses will ever replace the flavor of a tomato, harvested in Italy at the peak of perfection.
Tutto Buono is committed to the pursuit of unique, all-natural Italian gourmet food, made with the best ingredients that stand on their own without the need for artificial ingredients.
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Antonietta and Riccardo
Cozzolino, Italy c. 1948
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Having been taught by an Italian mother and great cook, who extolled the virtues of quality ingredients, I have become a purist. I search for the best. When I look for a particular item I consider the Italian region that best produces the ingredients needed to make the product as there is no substitute for that region’s particular soil, terrain and climate. So when I want the best fig products, I look for them in the area best known for figs – Calabria.
 When I travel to Italy, I look for small family-owned businesses that use natural ingredients, time-honored methods and sanitary processes to create the finest handmade gourmet products Italy has to offer. Many grow their own ingredients and bottle them hours after they have been harvested. These are not the Italian products you will find on supermarket shelves next to Barilla pasta. The small Italian businesses I work with do not have the capacity to supply large wholesalers. It’s these unique handmade food specialties that we offer to you, the discerning gourmet or the adventurous novice.
Whether you really enjoy the cooking process or are looking for easy to prepare meals, Tutto Buono is for you. Try our gourmet products and you’ll remember or discover just how good authentic Italian food is. After all, translated means – “It’s all good”.
Thank you for visiting. Please return often, as we continue to find and offer unique and distinctive gourmet foods from Italy.
Maria-Teresa Cozzolino
Founder, Tutto Buono
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