Dante Magazine DANTE Dec-Jan 2018 Edizione posteriore

Don’t judge a book by its cover… but you can certainly judge our Sacred and Profane cover for the festive season, reflecting our usual DANTE style inside the magazine. This issue’s shot, taken by our resident photographer Giuseppe Gervasio, features handsome HRH hounds Matisse, (International champion of Luxembourg, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Cyprus, and Macedonia), Didie’ (American champion), Isabelle (champion of Italy and Luxembourg) and Penelope, owned by poodle breeder Giulio Topan. We seem to have acquired monkish habits. Last year we were also religious, with our cover showing St. Sebastian as Europe shot through with Brexit and “Brek EU” arrows.
The holiday season is a good time to relax, but as usual we want to make this relaxing time special, so we seek alternative ways to stimulate your brain while you sit down with this new issue. Massimo Gava, notoriously teetotal (almost for this issue) came up with the idea of creating special DANTE cocktails. So we teamed up with master distiller Stefano Baseotto, who with barman Paolo Foramiti at Caffè Municipio in Pordenone, created two new drinks – called, of course, the DANTE and the Beatrice. (See Page 88 for full story)
Our Yuletime theme takes in a few fun tours of history. First, Mark Bryant looks at festive fun, past and present, with cartoons to enjoy; then actor Philip Rham tells the story of that very English phenomenon, the pantomime; while Mike Hawthorne discovers the king of pirates. Also for your festive season, we present a survey of the best cheeses from Italy for after-dinner snacking, chosen by Marco Pernini, celebrity chef and chef to celebrities.
Given DANTE’s Italian origins – we are the only international magazine with an Italian soul – we celebrate one of the country’s most famous exports, the Ferrari, which is marking its 70th birthday.

Happy New Year 2018 from all of us!