Behind the shaped iron gate a dusted road bordered by tall stone columns runs: it cuts in half a large orchard with thick trees of dark green leaves. An ancient Romanesque church of the ninth …
The grapes harvesting season in the Italian Riviera has just closed, then what better time to talk a little about the most famous wines produced in our region? First of all you have to know that …
When I started to travel through Liguria in search of "slow food" stories to tell so to show the most intimate folds of my region territory through the lives of those who love and care …
Small, delicate, soft, sweet and fragrant. These are Valleggia apricots, arrived long time ago from the Far East, discharged by chance in the port of Savona and in time became a product of excellence of that …
Bitter orange tree comes from far away. It started its journey from South East Asia and seed by seed it made its way through Oman, Persia and Egypt to arrive in 1000 AC on the …
Why Albenga violet asparagus – a very ancient local variety - has such exclusive famous attributes and nonetheless is cultivated just by a fistful of farmers (biodiversity defenders) and risks to get endangered? To get an …
In the Bormida Valley, a narrow valley behind Savona on the Ligurian Appennines, and precisely in the tiny villages of Calizzano and Murialdo, a small army of woods custodian keep alive an ancient preservation technique: …
Vessalico is a small village of the Alta Valle Arroscia, a valley behind Albenga located on the ancient street connecting the western Italian Riviera with the near Pedimont. Here since the Eighteenth century each 2nd …
This summer of the year 2016, declared by FAO "International Year of Pulses" I decided to go discovering our famous white beans of Pigna, a variety of pulse cultivated since the 17th century in the back-country of Ventimiglia. It …
