Traditional food in Southern Italy

It happens when you’re back in those place where you have lived, and you find all those products that are so genuine, nothing but ‘bio’ or ‘organic’ or ‘eco-something’…just so natural

Let’s start from fried figs, they used to be one of the top dessert for our grandparents, and fortunately they’re still prepared and used by families:
 

Those are the popular red peppers: traditionally, they’re put at the sun because  they need to get dry. Then, the dried peppers can be used to have a sort of peppers-powder to dress pasta or prepare fried peppers:

red peppers of Basilicata
  
red peppers dying at the sun
 

And here you are a typical kind of pear named ‘pera signora‘ (in English it would be Miss Pear 😁) that is becoming even more important for its uniqueness: 

pera signora – products sustainability
  

pears, tomatoes, potatoes, aubergines
  
complete products line from pera signora: jam, marmelade, fruit juice, in syrup

Pera Signora is part of Slow Food project, see here for more details 

And this is a very giant bread made in Calabria – I think a family of 4/5 people can survive for a month also if eating only it:

giant bread – from Calabria
 

crunchy and giant bread made in Calabria

Finally, it is worth to mention pasta – more exactly it’s  ‘rigatoni‘ with bacon and eggs, or white-Amatriciana, and a little dessert made of choco-profiterols: 

white amatriciana with rigatoni pasta
  

choco-profiterols

If these pictures male you drool and you got hungry, well… enjoy your meal  😁

  

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