Let's discover the Nasonte Special Food brand: here is our interview

The company Special Food Srl is located in the Sicilian hinterland and produces under the Nasonte brand a wide range of agri-food specialties typical of this extraordinary island. The idea behind it is to associate culinary imagination with the traditions of Sicilian cuisine, offering to the world market some lines of excellent quality agri-food products.

For the production of its products, Nasonte Special Food uses only ingredients and raw materials from carefully selected regional artisans and never adds any preservatives, dyes, flour or thickeners, seasoning only with aromatic herbs and extra virgin olive oil to make the genuineness of what you eat better known. In this way, he manages to develop ancient typical Sicilian and Mediterranean recipes, transferring all this goodness into comfortable jars.

Under the Nasonte brand, the assortment is very vast and includes appetizers, sauces, pates, pesto, spreads, dried fruit and various flavors. Special Food distributes its products only to specialized stores and gourmet outlets, ensuring high daily quality on your table, always.

We like these artisans, these producers of unique, certified and award-winning delicacies: they are real treasures embedded in our Peninsula between seas and mountains and in the most remote streets of villages and countryside. We don't stop to experience only their products, but we want to discover more closely the protagonists of this brand. That's why we sent some questions to those who manage communication with us.

Stay with us to know Nasonte Special Food: read the answers!

• Who are we talking to?
  I am Adriano Maria Nasonte, administrator.
  
• Is the company family run? What year was the company founded and who was the founder?
  Yes, the company is family owned and operated and was founded in 2016.
  
• Who was the founder and what was his training or what is the branch of work and professional from which he came if different from the current one?
  I created this company after working for local companies always in the same sector.
  
• What is the real reason or the triggering fact behind the birth of this company and when did it happen?
  The pleasure of doing something good for my customers and of creating local products with artisanal methods.
  
• What is your relationship with the land of origin and its typicality? And why do you want to tell them with your products?
  My relationship with the island is to pay homage to it by creating typical products with local raw materials of Sicilian culinary culture
  
• What was the first product you created?
  Chili pepper paste and eggplant caponata
  
• What is the product that today, on the other hand, do you consider “top”?
  The eggplant caponata, the Sicilian pesto and the pistachio spread.
  
• And what is the product that in the entire history of the company has most carried with it the beating heart, philosophy and soul of the company itself?
  Actually, we use all our products, which we create trying to achieve the highest final quality using the best raw materials from the local companies that collaborate with us.
  
• Let's talk about today: how big has the company grown since its inception? Can we get some numbers?
  We are working more and more Sicilian ingredients, creating more and more local culinary recipes
  
• Right now: more tradition or more innovation?
  Tradition. We really want to offer our customers traditional products from our land
  
• What was the most important evolution of the company to get it to what it is today?
  A lot of investments and a lot of work.
  
• Speaking instead of the future: what tomorrow will the company wait for? Are there any changes or some new evolutionary process planned?
  The future is born today, thanks to the creation of a new organic line to be enjoyed
  
• Are you planning to create new products?
  In fact, we have just created the new products and shared them with you. In fact, about a year ago we created the organic line under the Special Food brand.
  
• Having focused on Spaghetti
  S&M