Liceo Statale “Vito Capialbi” Vibo Valentia Italy Typical Products in Calabria Erasmus+ Project "Everyone Has a Story: Storytelling for inclusion“ Targoviste-Romania 4 th -8 th June, 2018
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Nduja and pepper ‘Nduja is a spreadable salami especially good enjoyed on a slice of bread. A local salami from Spilinga, a town in the province of Vibo Valentia, it's made with the pork fat and lots of chilli with everything being smoked inside the intenstine. Today 'Nduja is commonly used as a pizza topping or to flavour sauces .
Cheeses Pecorino di Monte Poro Considered one of the best pecorino cheeses of southern Italy, the Monte Poro Pecorino cheese is produced in the province of Vibo Valentia and made with the milk of local sheep. It can be eaten either fresh or aged: if aged for a long period a thicker crust from yellow, almost orange, Caciocavallo and pale yellow paste Silano develops. This ancient Calabrian cheese made of spun paste, from whole fresh milk. The shape is oval or conical and each Caciotta weighs 1 kg to 2.5 kg.
Tropea’s red onion One of the most popular • Calabrian typical products in Italy is Tropea’s red onion, IGP, it’s a sweeter and milder type of onion than other varieties. The particular flavour comes from particular climatic and geographic conditions: as the land faces the sea and has a mild winter. Tropea is the beautiful village near the crystalline sea. There is a small island on the top of which we can find Santa Maria’s church.
Typical cold cuts • Capocollo ' the "king" of Calabrian cold cuts. The typical product is prepared using the upper portion of pork loin. The de-boned meat is salted, over 4 to 10 days, then washed with water and vinegar. With an ageing period of at least 100 days from salting. Sopressata , or suppizzata, this cured meat is made of lean meat and pork fat to which spicy chilli and fennel are usually added, although there are varieties made without.
CCCcitrus fruits Lemons and Oranges • Bergamot is a round citrus, more or less flattened at the ends with a very intense aroma and fresh scent. It is produced in some municipalities of Reggio Calabria, and its yellow skin contains a very valuable essential oil, highly sought after within the cosmetic industry. • ORANGES • The orange is the fruit of the citrus .It is also called sweet orange
Extra vergin olive oil Extra virgin is the highest quality and most expensive olive oil classification. It should have no defects and a flavour of fresh olives. It must be produced entirely by mechanical means without the use of any solvents, and under temperatures that will not degrade the oil.
sylane -Peppers and potatoes. Potatoes -Sweet potato donuts(ciambelle di patate) The potatoes are grown on the Sila plateau and are better than others because they have more starch. This because they are grown at 1000 metres above sea level.
Typical sweets _ Liquorice: It is a root that has many benefits from which this blackcoloured candy is produced. _ Tartufo di Pizzo: Ice cream truffle Pignolata with honey
Gnocchi di patate fileja
Fichi e amaro del caPo Figs is a fruit Amar Amaro del l cap apo is a typical liquor of Calabria
In Calabria there are a lot of festivals, in fact in my village Rombiolo, there is the “aubergine sagra”, that is celebrated every year in the month of August . The association that organises this festival has decided to celebrate this vegetable because in the past the farmers used to cultivate this product. During this festival, people dance “Tarantella” which is a popular dance.
Also in my village, Ciano, there is a festival : “ Maccarruna’s sagra”. This is a typical pasta hand made by the women of the village . During the evening there are many games to which children and adults can participate .
«Pipi & Patati» Sagra Sagra is a popular local festival that is held every year; sagras are born from a religious traditional celebration, in occasion of a memorial of a Saint or a consecration, but they are used to celebrate the harvest or to promote a gastronomical local product. In Calabria, especially during summer months, are organised a lot of sagras with the aim of enhancing typical products; within those one of the most famous is “Pipi & Patati”’s Sagra that takes place in Vazzano , a town in the province of Vibo Valentia, by the middle of August every year.
Vazzano is a village of more or less 1.000 inhabitans in the municipality of Vibo Valentia. The economical activities of this town are concentrated on agricolture and farming , practised in the sorrounding fields. “ Pipi and Patati ” represents one of the most typical recipes of popular Calabrian tradition. A dish based on vegetables, hot peppers and potatoes , emphasises the typical products of our land. Once upon a time the recipes was used to full bread, typical “ Pitta Chjina ” (pitta ripiena), as a meal when they went to work in the fields.
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