Gusti Campani: Typical Products of Campania

The ancient Romans called it Campaniafelix to indicate that the lands in this region were among the most fertile in the entire Empire. Patricians and emperors feasted on wines from the Phlegraean Fields and fruit from Vesuvius. Cilento oranges and Sannio cheese. Campania is one of the regions of Italy that still today remains among the main interpreters of quality Italian production.

While enduring situations of social degradation, especially in areas linked to the suburbs of the Neapolitan metropolis and the municipalities of Caserta, the people of Campania are a proud people and have always been able to express their productive virtue. Tradition and history are the basis of the most important typical PDO, PGI and STG products.

The great city of Naples, which today is experiencing a real renaissance, is not only pasta and pizza. Today it is one of the centers where art and culture are flourishing again and gastronomy is reaching its peak, also thanks to leading producers and

Typical Campanian products

From the Sea to the Apennines, Campania offers a wide choice of local products but, at an international level, it is recognized for some of them, such as, for example, PDO Buffalo Mozzarella, in its various versions and interpretations: Caserta, Samnite, Cilento di Paestum. Even for them, it's all a matter of flowers and meadows, of natural aromatic herbs. Spinning, a dairy art that has made these lands a point of reference for the whole world.

But what about the red gold from Campania, the tomato, in all its forms and types? The Corbarino, the Piennolo del Vesuvio, the San Marzano, the yellow cherry, etc.

But then Campania has always been the kingdom of pasta, where the extruded mixture of durum wheat flour and water originated. Gragnano , a town built to become an open-air dryer, with streets that widen or narrow depending on the pressure of the air flow that must enter and the streets facing the sea to better receive the salt breeze coming from the Gulf of Naples: here the best pasta d& #39 is produced; Italy, the legendary Gragnano pasta!

Another quality product that characterizes this beautiful region is l&' PDO Extra Virgin Olive Oil, from Cilento to the Salerno Hills, from the Irpinia-Colline dell'Uvita to the Sorrentine Peninsula up to the

Campania: characteristics of the territory

The sea is the other important element that determines the history and the regional food and wine tradition. Amalfi and the Amalfi Coast are lands rich in heroic vineyards, but certainly the most famous product in the world is Amalfi Limoncello, produced with PGI Lemons from the Amalfi Coast or with PGI Lemons from Sorrento.

Sannio is a region waiting to be discovered with many small artisans of the highest quality. A place where time seems to stand still. Here there are still wood-burning ovens for the production of homemade bread and typical taralli. Antique grains have never gone out of fashion and now that they are back in vogue, they are starting to be known on the most refined tables. The custom, the history of a people in Sannio have never been lost, on the contrary, they have been maintained precisely thanks to agricultural practice.

Campania is one of the lands that still has the largest amount of cattle and gray pigs in the wild today. At Giffoni, not only were they fantastic in becoming the reference point of the most important International Film Competition for children's productions, but they are also the main producers of IGP Hazelnuts. For local producers, of course, they are certainly the best in Italy... in the face of Langaroli!

If you go to the countryside of Avellino and Benevento along the rows of apple trees you will find the apples lying on the ground on hay or straw. They are becoming dehydrated and are becoming works of art for the finer palates. Melannurca Campana IGP is one of the most intriguing products on the Italian fruit scene and takes up an ancient tradition of preserving these small apples. A delight on the palate, very sweet and rich in juice even after months

Along the upper part of Campania, the upper Caserta area on the border with Molise, the Roccamonfina Park, valuable chestnuts and chestnuts are cultivated. They are also exceptional lands for the harvest of very valuable summer black truffles. Same thing in the forests of the Central Avellino Apennines in that of Montella.

Cilento is a natural reserve of delicacies and extraordinary typical products. In Paestum, where you can still visit one of the most important archaeological parks in Italy, delicious artichokes are cultivated today. Throughout the region, on the other hand, white figs of rare sweetness and ready for drying are obtained.

In Gragnano, under the Lattari Mountains, from which groundwater flows ideal for the production of pasta, there are pastures of podolic cows that produce a cheese of great charm, Provolone del Monaco PDO. Vesuvius , a volcano that is still active, which has been resting for about 70 years, has plantations of apricots, percochets and the mythical Piennolo del Vesuvio PDO tomato along its slopes up to the valley. L&' authentic Italian tomato!

Of Campania we must also remember its great wines: Greco di Tufo, Taurasi, Fiano di Avellino and Aglianico del Taburno, all DOCG.

Sun, wind, sea and lots of imagination are the pillars of a people who have never betrayed their homeland. And this is a guarantee of absolute quality.

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