Sessame
AZ. AGR. MA.EL.
Elena Penna uses the land of Val Bormida to grow fruit and vegetables which she transforms into delicacies, as Asti tradition commands. Seek out the vegetable starters, the bell peppers in bagna caoda, the cherry, peach, …
Food preserves
from the guide IL GOLOSARIO the archives of ALEXALA
Nizza Monferrato
AZ. AGR. VISCONTI
Luigi Visconti has dedicated 5 of his 15 hectares to the hunchback cardoon. He sells them preserved in oil and sweet and sour or transformed into an extraordinary chutney to eat with mature cheese. The remaining land is …
Cocconato
CASA BRINA
Under the Casa Brina brand, the Bava family produces wines and the oil obtained from the hazelnuts grown in the lower parts of its vineyards in Monferrato. It is obtained by mechanical pressing with a newly designed press …
Buttigliera d'Asti
CASCINA CAMPORA
Fruit and vegetables are transformed into sauces, preserves, patés and jams such as quince apples with Freisa and the "povron d'cravij", an autochthonous variety of sweet peppers in oil: all following the organic dictates. …
Rocchetta Tanaro
LA REGINA DEL MOSTO
Paolo Frola is many overwhelming things in one: medical officer of Rochetta Tanaro, whimsical singer-songwriter and passionate gourmet. He and his wife Paola have created the chutney production company (Frolantheon) where …
Dusino San Michele
Sapori Nostrani
Cossòt are green courgettes with white streaks, which obtained De.Co. recognition in 2010, cultivated particularly in in the area of Dusino and Villanova. On his farm, Giorgio Turco also uses them to make ready-made dishes …
Asti
SOMARKANDA
Cesare Ivaldi founded this association that promotes and protects donkeys in 1995. Eleven years later, he set up the social cooperative called Somarkanda. Today, at Sessant of Asti, he breeds forty or so donkeys, making …
Bruno
TENUTA AGRICOLA BALDINO GIUSEPPE
The fruit purées of the Buono Sano Piemonte consortium have names that bring out the child in us: Peralo, Melalo, Pescalo, Albicoccalo, Mirtillolo, Prugnalo and Carotalo, seven like Snow White’s dwarves. They are enjoying …