Carla Vico Dario Osella
A dairy entrepreneur
Dario Osella was born in 1931. He is one of the most prominent food entrepreneurs in Piedmont. He is the founder of "Fattorie Osella" in Caramagna Piemonte.
His mother was a Isoardi, a family of cattle herders that lived in the Stura valley and spent the winter in Caramagna.
Dario Osella explains his studies as a student of the Barnabites in the Royal college in Moncalieri, then as an university student in Turin. There he studied law but never finished his studies. Dario Osella tells his family and business history in the Twentieth century. His firm distinguished itself for its creativity. It creates new kinds of cheese, such as the 'Annabella', the 'L'Alpino', the 'Caramagnin', and its marketing strategies.
Video table of contents
- Family history
- Studies and early work
- The kind of cheese they produce
- Caramagnin cheese: its characteristics and history
- The transfer to Kraft
- Know how to sell: making cheese has been never bitter
- The first Swiss herder
- His brother during the Fascist regime
- His period working at Polenghi
- Direct fire and steam make cheese with a different taste
- Cows on the mountain pasture and the radio-controlled heder
- The Eden Garden: prairies, just milked milk and ripe fruit
- Innovation by recovering old raw milk cheese
- I want to live to make new kinds of cheese
- Import-export: the limits of current law
- Soap during the war
- I want to live until the 3000
- Earth gives us food and we destroy it
- Eat Osella cheese: they are made by heart
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Caramagna Piemonte
District: CN
Altitude: 254m s.l.m.
Dario Osella
Date of birth: 07-07-1931
City: Caramagna Piemonte
School: High school or Secondary
Profession: Entrepreneur
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Gianpaolo Fassino, Luca Percivalle
Video by: Luca Percivalle
Created: 05-02-2014
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