Welcome to our 2008 Italian Christmas Hamper Brochure. To view/download the full brochure in pdf format click the following link: just so ITALIAN Hamper Brochure.

We have worked hard to come up with a range that has something for everyone. We have gift ideas starting at £24.50 right up to ‘Luxury’ Hampers at £275.

If you want to buy on behalf of your business we can also offer some rebranding alternatives to make the gifts more personal.

We hope you enjoy looking through the brochure and if you have any questions please get in touch. Either via email at hello@justsoitalian.co.uk on by telephone on 01858 419554.

Happy Christmas!

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This week I managed to escape the kitchen and fit in a quick trip to Italy: it’s just not fair that the boys always seem to have all the fun on their buying trips so we decided to go for ‘research’. 

Yesterday we took my father-in-law’s 28-year-old Fiat 126 (which some people might call an old banger but I prefer to use the word ‘vintage’), for a run into the countryside to visit Caseficio Piandelmedico, one of our cheese suppliers.

This farm, home to 250 buffalos and numerous cows, is run by chief cheese-maker Giulia and her brother Antonio who takes care of the livestock.   Together they produce an incredible range of buffalo milk cheeses and yoghurts as well as homemade jams and marmalades.  

Their reputation is well-known throughout Le Marche as was evident by the huge number of customers that were packed into their shop while we were visiting.  And that was only a normal Thursday afternoon: I can’t imagine what a weekend might look like.  It took all my will power not to disappear into a corner with a pile of cheese and one of the demijohns of Verdicchio that lined the walls of the shop whilst waiting to meet Giulia for a chat!

Forever inventing and producing new kinds of cheese, Giulia is currently working on some ‘Formaggio di Fossa’, which involves leaving a 2-month old cheese to mature in underground holes for a further 3 months to produce a wonderfully earthy flavour.  Hopefully, if they don’t sell out within a week as they did last year, we will have some available on the website in time for Christmas.  In the meantime, as well as a range of flavoured cheese, why not try the spectacular Stilton-like ‘Dadoni di Bufala’, a flavourful blue cheese made with buffalo milk, just crying out to be spread onto warm crusty bread and washed down with some Rosso Piceno.

(Alison – Oct 16th)

From Italia Magazine November 2008…..

The nice people at Italia magazine helped us to announce our arrival on the online Italian deli scene. There may not be many of us but we are all keen to create a good impression.

We have given Danilo (front, right) the job of finding food and drink from Italy that will make you “laugh out loud with pleasure”! A tall order but he said he’ll try his best.

Alison (centre, right) is competing with him for customer favour. She makes all our biscuits by hand in our kitchen in Market Harborough. We think all her creations are truly out of this world.

Alex (centre, left) controls all our finances and stops us spending all our time in Italy indulging our passion for wonderful Italian food and drink.

Martin (front, left) is Head of Sales and after spending 15 years in the high fashion clothing business is finding life in Italian food and drink a very welcome change.

Me, I’m Tony (at the back), I am in charge of marketing and take an active role in all of our tasting sessions!

For more information about Italia magazine please see their web site at http://www.italia-magazine.com/