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Mt magazine
MT Magazine, which today highlights the best mixing venues in the main Italian cities with its paper guide, follows all the news in the beverage sector with professionalism and dedication, through a blog full of interviews with bartenders and leading figures from the world of industries, presentations of cocktail bars, curiosities and drink lists.
But not only. Thanks to the support of the events and communication agency To Be, organizes sector events dedicated to professionals and the public such as Mix Contest Italy Tour, where the best bartenders in the Bel Paese compete over cocktails.
The mind
Lalla cart
Turin, Laura Carello She has a deep knowledge of bartenders, cocktail bars and, more generally, mixology. Creator of MT Magazine, a project that has been addressing the issue from all angles since 2017, he is also the mind behind the Mix Contest Italy Tour, a traveling challenge throughout Italy that features the competing bartenders on one side and the voting public on the other.
His latest project is the Vermouth Show, the first event entirely dedicated to the world of Vermouth, which made its debut in Turin in February 2024 and will be repeated in 2025, with some dedicated projects in the pipeline. The venue of the event, the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento, welcomed local and international producers and talks with professionals in the sector; the city of Turin, with the format of Outside the Salon, has hosted dinners in the best restaurants in the area, guests in trendy cocktail bars and guided tours in iconic places of the Piedmont capital.
Copywriter
Alessio D'aguanno
Alessio D'Aguanno is the copywriter. He interviews bartenders and talks about the work they do in Italian and worldwide cocktail bars, both in the blog and in the paper guide.
The other articles also bear his signature: on national and international mixing days and those in which similar worlds are told, such as that of spirits. He loves vermouth and his favorite cocktail is the Americano.
Social Media Manager
Margaret Toulouse
Margherita Tolosa is the social media manager. In reels, stories and graphics, it translates all the news concerning this world: from the presentations of the drink lists to the blog articles themselves.
She is also entrusted with the task of (visually) describing all the stages of the Mix Contest Italy Tour, which, as mentioned, are held throughout Italy. He loves drinking gin and his favorite cocktail is the Moscow Mule.
Journalist
James Jacobellis
Dreamer since 1990, journalist since 2010. Giacomo Iacobellis lives to write and writes to live. That child who many years ago enjoyed fantasizing with pen in hand today is in fact lucky enough to do what he considers the most beautiful job in the world. Sports journalist by day and food and wine journalist by night, he lives two parallel lives that often and willingly intersect. Writing, traveling, eating and drinking, strictly in this order, for some of the most recognized Italian and Spanish newspapers, but above all for passion and hunger/thirst for knowledge. FISAR sommelier since 2022, he has published five books in the food and wine field and also works daily on radio and television. Since 2021 he has also organized Tavola Latina in Florence, the first cultural-gastronomic festival in Italy dedicated to Latin America.
Author
Antonio Galdi
Antonio Galdi, class 00, like flour. This is the usual joke he uses to introduce himself, convinced he'll make people laugh.
Born in Salerno, in 2022 he graduated in Mediterranean Gastronomic Sciences at the University of Naples Federico II. His love story with food, and cooking, starts from far away. Since he was a child, having been lucky enough to grow up in the countryside, he enjoyed emulating the chefs seen on TV by destroying flowers, vases and plants from his mother's flowerbeds, who was not too happy with this culinary streak.
Having fulfilled his dream of a white double-breasted suit very early, thanks to his hotel training, he began working as an assistant chef in various hotels and restaurants in the Salerno area. Convinced of his passions and driven by an unhealthy madness typical of young age, he left the kitchen and followed a Master in food and wine criticism that opened the doors of food and wine journalism for him.
He meticulously cultivates all his passions, from cinematography to music without forgetting Italian literature, from which he draws the quotations that fill, perhaps saturated, his texts. He hates those who eat for the pure spirit of survival without asking the right questions. He boasts a true, deep and carnal passion for flamenco, oh no for food. Damned quotations.
