The diet of Amalfi has always had one foot on land and
the other in a boat, the diet of a “fishing fox”, that mixes
fresh vegetables with the perfume of the sea: a traditional way of cooking
that is eclectic but open to new ideas…
We will make our way through the specialities of Amalfi proceeding by
seasons, starting with Spring and the first tender vegetables from the
kitchen gardens : endive, chicory, spring cabbage together with nogli,
pezzenti (pork sausage) and wild herbs in the “menestra ‘mmaretata”;
another formidable pair are fresh broad beans and thick slices of salami;
and the typical Easter bread “casatiello” made with pork fat
and pepper…. |