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Traditional Agri-foodstuffs of Monte Cucco Park

The territory of Monte Cucco Park heavily characterizes its gastronomy, consisting of a variety of local and quality products, in particular cheese, truffles, mushrooms, honey, charcuterie, cereals and legumes like spelt, barley, lentils, chick-peas, and chicklings. Mountain pastures are the main feature characterizing sheep meat and beef. Some family-run agricultural holdings not only offer a tourist welcome service, but also produce and sell moderate quantities of organic products.

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It is a product whose ingredients are water, salt, bacon, flour, and bicarbonate. It is cooked in a pan oiled with lard, on a slow flame. If you like, after cooking, you can spread it with sugar.
Category: Sweets
It is a traditional Easter cake. Its ingredients are eggs, milk, yeast, anise seeds, raisins, sugar, lard, grated lemon peel, and flour. The dough must leaven in a warm place and cooking must take place in a wood-burning oven.
Category: Sweets
It is a very widespread product in the Park area. Until a few years ago, it was prepared for the family consumption. Today, it can be purchased in the shops and supermarkets of the Park territory in a vacuum package. The ingredients are flour, salt, water,...
Category: Sweets
Characteristic winter product. Its ingredients are flour, salt, bicarbonate, water, and the so-called "cicoli". "Cicoli" are scraps of pork fat from which the grease has been removed. The dough must be cooked for about half an hour in a pan oiled with...
Category: Sweets
Cheese with Fig or Walnut Leaves and Cheese with Grape Marc
The aim was always the same: preserving cheese and protecting it from insects and possible predators. The rounds of cheese were put into a wooden vat and alternated with strata formed by the above-mentioned leaves, or soaked in grape marc. The cheese...
Category: Cheese
Infossato Pecorino Cheese
The tradition of cheese matured in pits (infossato) dates back to the Etruscan period. After the curdling of milk, the product is flavored with different kinds of aromatic herbs. The maturation process lasts at least three months and takes place into...
Category: Cheese
Pecorino Cheese
It is the most ancient kind of cheese. Exclusively produced with sheep's milk, after curdling it is salted and matures in adequate premises. The ideal maturation process lasts at least 6 months. It has a creamy and compact texture, the taste recalls...
Category: Cheese
Chickling
A not very known legume, it is cultivated in small quantities because of its exclusively manual processing. It looks like a chick pea, but it has a flattened shape. It is obtained from herbaceous plants growing on dry and sunny soils. It is harvested...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
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Lentil (Lens Esculenta)
It is a leguminous plant whose botanical name derives from its lens-like shape. It is probably the most ancient legume, already mentioned in the Bible. The plant resists very well to the cold and its biological cycle goes from April (sowing) to July/August...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
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Chianina
The precious Chianina breed has very ancient origins. Its progenitors are the big white cows represented by the Eturscans and the Romans in their marches and sacrifices or in scenes of pastoral life. Chianina breed cow is characterized by its very white...
Category: Autochthonous Breed and Meat
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Spelt
Spelt is the progenitor of all cereals. There are three kinds of spelt: Triticum Spelta, Triticum Monococcum, and Triticum Dicoccum. Cultivated since ancient times, it has been largely used as a major foodstuff until the discovery of wheat. It is a cereal...
Category: Rice Pasta and Cereals
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Pork Butchery (Norcineria)
Pork butchery has a long tradition in the area: delicious ham, pork sausage, liver sausage, salami, wild boar sausage, and many other cold cuts are produced.
Category: Cold Cuts
Black Truffle (Tuber Melanosporum Vittadini)
It is an underground fungus living in symbiosis with the roots of many trees, like cornels, maples, oaks, willows, hazelnut trees, ilex trees, and poplars. Very rich in water and mineral salts, it can have different sizes: from the size of a walnut to...
Category: Truffles
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White Truffle (Tuber Magnatum Pico)
It is considered the truffle par excellence. It is an underground fungus living in symbiosis with the roots of many trees, like cornels, maples, oaks, willows, lime trees, and poplars. Very rich in water and mineral salts, it can have different sizes:...
Category: Truffles
The Park subsoil is crossed by a network of underground passages rich in water which springs in different locations, creating resurgences and springs, many of which provide for some important waterworks and mineral water companies.
Category: Further Products
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