What's New

Here is the latest news from Italian Harvest. Please select a topic from the list below.

• Guarcino and La Ciociaria

  Our latest movie will let you see the cuisine of shepherd populations of La Ciociaria in Central Italy.

• Pizzoccheri Pasta Factory

  See latest movie "Pizzoccheri Pasta Factory" and see how pasta is made using traditional methods.

• Salina and The Capers

  See our movie, "Salina and the Capers"; this video will bring you to a fascinating time on this remote and classic Mediterranean island.

• Sweets of the Romanengo factory

  One of our most cherished imports, the sweets factory of Romanengo fu Stefano in the old town center of Genova, made the news in a comprehensive article that came out in the Sunday edition of the Financial Times newspaper. The article brought us quite a bit of new traffic to our website and some new afficionados of the Old World sweets of the Romanengo factory.

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• Newsletter

  Read our periodic Newsletter, featuring specific products from our line of imports. You'll also read about history, culture, and travel in Italy with greater focus on regional popular events and places that are worthy of mention.

• Pesto alla Genovese featured in The Nibble

  One of our favorite food magazines, The Nibble, reviewed pre-made pesto sauces. Our Perla Pesto alla Genovese was judged as the most subtle. If you love authentic Italian pesto, you owe it to yourself to try it.

• Find a Retailer Near You

  Find retailers near you who carry our products.

• Gift Baskets

  Now you can build your own Fai Da Te, or "do it yourself basket." Express yourself as you create that prefect gift for friends, clients, and loved ones. This would make a perfect Christmas present.

• Gift Registry

  Visit our Gift Registry and set up a wish list in just a few minutes.

• Site Features

  Go to our features page to view the story behind our products, with recipes, stories about our artisans, group images of product lines, links, and more.

• Italian Harvest at a local wine tasting

  John represented Italian Harvest at a recent wine tasting at the C'era Una Volta restaurant in Alameda. See the photos online.

• What our customers are saying

  We've added a way for you to review our products, and share your thoughts with others.

• Photo Gallery

  Visit our photo gallery for the latest photos of our recent visit to Italy and the hot pepper festival in Calabria.

• Take a Nibble

  The Nibble recently featured a review of artisanal pastas, and had some nice things to say about our fine products.

Pesto alla Genovese featured in The Nibble

One of our favorite food magazines, The Nibble, reviewed pre-made pesto sauces. Our Perla Pesto alla Genovese was judged as the most subtle. If you love authentic Italian pesto, you owe it to yourself to try it.

Italian Harvest imports Pesto alla Genovese manufactured and canned in Liguria, and made exclusively from ingredients grown there. The word pesto in the whole world has widespread use to indicate sauces made with all kinds of ingredients, while a group of people in Liguria, the region where Pesto alla Genovese originated, want to give Pesto a D.O.P. status (Protected Designation of Origin) so you can't even call it pesto unless it comes from that small area in northwest Italy. This is at the root of why people love our pesto so much.

Italian Harvest Pesto alla Genovese was featured this month by The Nibble, an online food magazine based in New York. They tasted more than 100 pestos, among which our imported Pesto alla Genovese by Perla (Santa Margherita Ligure) and actually rated it the best of all the prepared pestos they tried. They also featured other remarkable pestos, many of which are made in the U.S.

This excellent article states that in their trials the Perla pesto was "....the subtlest of our finalists, a result of the mild, tiny-leaf Genovese basil and buttery Ligurian olive oil that go into it. Tiny grains of pine nuts and walnuts give the sauce an intriguingly fine texture that rolls on the tongue....". When we at IH demo this pesto we inevitably sell alot of it, or in the least make alot of people happy to get a really good free treat.

Here is an excerpt from the review:

Italian Harvest imports this authentic Pesto alla Genovese from Perla, a manufacturer Pesto Alla Genovesebased in Santa Margherita Ligure. It’s the subtlest of our finalists, a result of the mild, tiny-leaf Genovese basil and buttery Ligurian olive oil that go into it. Tiny grains of pine nuts and walnuts give the sauce an intriguingly fine texture that rolls on the tongue. The aromatic pesto is olive in color and slightly so in flavor, perfect to mix with lemon juice and top some light, flaky fish. Of course, since it comes from Liguria, it would be more than welcome in traditional preparations, like over triofe pasta.