A student works on a fresh sauce at the Barilla Academy in Parma October 8, 2012. World leading pasta-maker Barilla is defying Italy's recession by opening a 40-million-euro ($52 million) plant near its Parma home base, just as other big industrial names are pulling out of the country or freezing investments. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo (ITALY - Tags: FOOD SOCIETY BUSINESS)