“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”, goes an old adage we borrow to tell the story of a season in Italy which, in terms of ‘victories’, is giving us a great deal of satisfaction. Well, the going got tough when a terrible and unexpected pandemic struck and overwhelmed us. Italy and the Italians suffered a lot, but the reaction was not long in coming, as always happened in the past when we were down. Victories and rematches have been many and all of them were great. Just a few of them: the men’s and women’s national volleyball teams winning the European Championships, the Italian national football team bringing home another European Championship, Berrettini playing in the final at Wimbledon and the Maneskin band on the podium, the incredible medals at the Olympics and, being this is a magazine focusing on confectionery, let us mention the Italian victory in the World Cup in Lyon. Un evento che ricalca nella sua grandezza la vittoria del campionato del Mondo di Pasticceria, Gelateria e Cioccolateria FIPGC, sempre parte dei nostri connazionali nel 2017 a Host Milano. An event that echoes in its grandeur the victory in the FIPGC World Pastry, Ice Cream and Chocolate Championship, also won by our compatriots in 2017 at Host Milano. A renewed great satisfaction for the whole movement revolving around the pastry sector, a further demonstration, if any were needed, of the great Italian tradition, but also of the professional quality of its operators, their creativity, spirit of competition and desire, great desire to excel. After a long and terrible period, here come all these victories and all these emotions, some of them extremely sweet, which help to strengthen the spirit and the desire to start again, with the Pastry world playing its part. So let’s get on with renewed enthusiasm and with the knowledge that we are strong, too strong! Giuseppe Rotolo
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