Parma ham, Parmesan cheese, Expo 2015 culinary 'ambassadors'

(ANSA) - Parma, December 18 - Dishes incorporating Parmesan cheese and Parma's famed prosciutto ham will be offered to visitors to Milan Expo 2015, and from next week will act as culinary 'ambassadors' in restaurants around the world, organisers said Thursday.
    "On Sunday evening, we will begin in several restaurants in Europe and elsewhere proposing Italian cuisine dishes based on these two important examples of 'Made in Italy' excellence," said Donato Troiano, director of InformaCibo and promoter of the project.
    "We will receive attention thanks to important chefs, for instance in Shanghai and Paris, but not only for that reason," added Troiano.
    "The initiative then will be repeated in several hundred different restaurants around the world up to April 30".
    After Expo 2015 opens "we will take visitors to the Milan fair directly to the production sites in Parma to taste dishes based on prosciutto ham and Parmesan," he added.
    Ad hoc tastings of ham and cheese will be held in restaurants between Milan and Parma until April.