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They're just some of the ever-growing network of people coming together online before sharing their love of food in each other's homes across Italy. STORY-LINE It began here,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEAD-IN What do bankers, lawyers and designers have in common? They're just some of the ever-growing network of people coming together online before sharing their love of food in each other's homes across Italy. STORY-LINE It began here, in this wacky kitchen that looks like the set of a cooking show.It's the home of Melissa Arroni and Emanuele Nardoni, and the scene of their five-course dinner parties.  The Milan couple cooked up the first social eating venture in Italy three years ago. It's now blossomed into the \"Ma' Hidden Kitchen Supper Club\" - a social networking hub with more than 4,000 members. \"In Milan there's a need for - I don't mean us - a need for social eating, something that brings people together and uses food as the glue, because we are in Italy, and here food is essential,\" says Arroni.\"What we like and what we are interested in is that when people come to our home, they really feel at home,\" she says. They've even hired a real chef so they may spend more time with their guests. Nardoni, who works in communications, says hosting came natural to them.  \"That was our approach even before starting this thing, only that before they were our friends, and now they are not our friends, but rather strangers, friends of friends, of friends, of friends, of friends, of friends, of friends, of friends,\" he said.Ma' Hidden Kitchen Supper Club offers 3 to 4 dinners a week for 12 guests, bringing together those living in Milan with those just passing through, like Petra Kiuru from Finland. \"Really nice evening, with good food and new people from all over the world, Italians, and an amazing home where we have been invited to dine. It could not be any better, it's really perfect.\" At times, it's less about the food, and more about the social networking. \"What surprised me is what, how varied the group is. There are bankers, there are lawyers, there are designers, there are people in marketing it's just very�people coming together for the common love of food,\" says Amanda Huynh from Canada.  Milan local Elena Tagliaferri says she loves the chance to meet new people.\"For me, who loves getting to know new people, meeting new people, it's an excellent experience, very fun and I'm pretty sure I will do this again, absolutely.\" The social eating trend is attracting more and more home cooks throughout Italy.  Many Italians are joining in with the help of the online platform Gnammo.  The website connects more than 2,000 cooks of all levels with paying customers hungry for friends and food.       Gianluca Ranno, founder of Gnammo, says the website is turning online social networking into a real experience.\"Gnammo is currently experiencing a moderate explosion, because everybody is talking about home restaurants now, and especially for two main reasons. (First) the economic aspect. Because people don't have much money to spend anymore they would rather spend where they can meet new friends,\" he says.\"The second aspect is social networking. Up to know social networks limited us to sitting behind a computer, Gnammo allows you to do what people have always done, meeting on the oldest social network in the platform, which is the dinner table, with new friends.\" Gnammo dinner venues have popped up in 279 cities in Italy, especially in popular locations like Turin, Venice, Florence and Rome.  Rome's CeneRomane web platform is one of Gnammo's premium partners, offering home dinners in prime locations.  Like this one, a few steps from Piazza Navona.Ruggero Donati opens up his elegant home a few times a year, offering a five-course, meal for 60 euros (68 US dollars) a head.  CeneRomane keeps 10 percent. But that doesn't matter much to Donati, who says he doesn't do it for the money, but for the company. \"I'm an architect, and so I'm a very curious person. I came into contact with this organisation, and became a part of it. We also hang out on other occasions. They are all people with houses that are more or less small, more or less fun, and more or less good at cooking and hosting people. It's a very fun experience. I'm happy to do it and I'll keep doing it,\" he says.Donati's guests for the evening are Louise Kastfelt and her husband from Copenhagen. \"It's been excellent. The hospitality is great, the food is wonderful, it's been very good so far, it's a very good experience,\" Kastfelt says.  CeneRomane offers 30 home restaurants in Rome, a small offering in comparison to the national platform, Gnammo.   Gnammo offers a wide range of homes and prices and they take a cut of 12 percent of the price of each meal.  The website's staff personally check each cook before adding them onto the site.AP Television Milan - 9 April 20151. Wide of kitchen of Ma' Hidden Kitchen Supper Club home restaurant with the hosts and chef2. Ma' Hidden Kitchen Supper Club (MAHKSC) host Melissa Arroni tasting food, alongside fellow host Emanuele Nardoni3. Arroni welcoming guests into her home4. Guests holding champagne flutes and shaking hands5. Arroni surrounded by her guests in the living room before dinner6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Melissa Arroni (right), Emanuele Nardoni (left), founders and hosts of Ma' Hidden Kitchen Super Club: Melissa: \"In Milan there's a need for - I don't mean us - a need for social eating, something that brings people together and uses food as the glue, because we are in Italy, and here food is essential. What we like and what we are interested in is that when people come to our home, they really feel at home.\" Emanuele: \"The concept is to open your home to strangers.\"Melissa: \"They come and drop their bags wherever they want.\" Emanuele: \"We've always done that, because that was our approach even before starting this thing, only that before they were our friends, and now they are not our friends, but rather strangers, friends of friends, of friends, of friends, of friends, of friends, of friends, of friends.\"Melissa: \"New friends.\" Emmanuele: \"New friends.\" Melissa: \"A lot of new friends.\"7. Wide of 12 guests at dinner table 8. Mid of 12 bowls with small souffles and pesto9. SOUNDBITE (Finnish) Petra Kiuru, guest from Finland: \"Really nice evening, with good food and new people from all over the world, Italians, and an amazing home where we have been invited to dine. It could not be any better, it's really perfect.\" 10. Chef dropping hand-made pasta into boiling water11. Close up of plates of fettuccine and sauteed onion12. Nardoni bringing plates of pasta the dinner table13. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Huynh, guest from Canada: \"What surprised me is what, how varied the group is. There are bankers, there are lawyers, there are designers, there are people in marketing it's just very�people coming together for the common love of food.\" 14. Close up of table football table as people play15. Guests playing table football16. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Elena Tagliaferri, guest from Italy: \"For me, who loves getting to know new people, meeting new people, it's an excellent experience, very fun and I'm pretty sure I will do this again, absolutely.\" AP Television Turin - 11 April 201517. Wide of people eating at outside tables in square  18. Italians having happy hour drink19. Pan of happy hour buffet table in bar20. Close up of people taking food from buffet table21. Gianluca Ranno, founder of the social eating platform Gnammo, working on laptop22. Close up of Gnammo homepage as Ranno types in his city, Turin23. Close up of Gnammo webpage showing different pictures of food offerings by different hosts in Turin24. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gianluca Ranno, founder of Gnammo social eating platform: \"Gnammo is currently experiencing a moderate explosion, because everybody is talking about home restaurants now, and especially for two main reasons. (First) the economic aspect. Because people don't have much money to spend anymore they would rather spend where they can meet new friends. The second aspect is social networking. Up to know social networks limited us to sitting behind a computer, Gnammo allows you to do what people have always done, meeting on the oldest social network in the platform, which is the dinner table, with new friends.\" 25. Ranno browsing his Gnammo website26. Close up of pictures of food posted by Gnammo home restaurantsAP TelevisionRome - 31 March 201527. Wide of Piazza Navona 28. Fountain in Piazza Navona29. Zoom in of the CeneRomane homepage showing tower overlooking terrace in Rome30. Wide tilt down of the same tower as CeneRomane host Ruggero Donati leads his guest onto the terrace31. Close up of seagull on terrace roof32. Donati opening bottle of wine for his guests33. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Ruggero Donati, CeneRomane dinner host: \"I'm an architect, and so I'm a very curious person. I came into contact with this organisation, and became a part of it. We also hang out on other occasions. They are all people with houses that are more or less small, more or less fun, and more or less good at cooking and hosting people. It's a very fun experience. I'm happy to do it and I'll keep doing it.\" 34. Wide of Donati sitting down with his guests for dinner35. Close up of woman's hand stirring pot of tomato sauce36. Pan left of Donati sitting and talking with his guests as pasta is served37. Donati talking to guest Louise Kastfelt from Copenhagen38. 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