beans Casalbuono Cilento
September 26, 2008
Maristella Di Martino
Slow Food Community Food
Whites, blacks and reds, but there are also brown, or simply clear to gray. Their shape can be spherical, cylindrical or rounded, but also tending to round or slightly elongated, there are, in fact, thirteen different varieties: the beans, the tabaccanti, types and Russian climbers', yet the San Pasquale, the Sant'Anter, those known as rice or beans, peas, munaciedd, the panzariedd, the Pasquale Rocco, blacks, and finally, the ciutariedd and Lardaro. The beans Casalbuono, however, considered in any cultivar, are mostly unknown to the public Gourmet, experts and amateurs of good food away because the pages of the most popular magazines and newspapers with more beds.
Today, finally, a group of young people living in this small town of Salerno - a few thousand souls live in it, along the river Heat, six hundred meters above sea level - Sebastian and Joseph Rofrano Elephant in the lead, among other things authors also preliminary research that has surveyed all the existing varieties highlighting its organoleptic and nutritional characteristics, decided to bet on this important resource and promote the work of the 73 producers who grow between Bagnoli, Valle d'Alessio, Willow, King's Bridge, Brignacolo, ischemic and Vallone Salese, all places that arise in the surrounding countryside Casalbuono between Lagonegro and Montesano on Marcellana. And they know the facts - their first public appearance was at Terra Madre, an event organized by Slow Food Campania 20 to 21 September last, at the Stazione Marittima di Napoli - telling their challenge with great enthusiasm in an attempt to sensitize journalists experts and the merely curious, uniqueness of the product. Today Casalbuono the rudder remains in the hands of these brave farmers, of which 38% retirees, 34% farmers and the remaining 28% of operators who are dedicated to the earth as a second activities or simply as a hobby, with determination to preserve the farming techniques of the past, taking care to sow with the expertise learned by expert hands and once more experienced of them ristoccia , dialect word which still is called the field with the remnants of the cereal harvest dates back to the autumn and winter that preceded the bean.
The land is irrigated first, to allow a general softening of the soil and after a rest of three days to go to seed itself into the grooves already in place. There was a time when these vegetables were transported to a typical bag and then be exchanged for other products, even if already in the fifties some of the other more forward-looking merchant saw its potential and began marketing them in the markets of neighboring municipalities, including Polla, Consilina Hall, Sapri and Lagonegro and pushed even more daring in Naples and Salerno. It must in any case to the railway Sicignano Lagonegro-opened in 1892 the fortunes of this bean, despite a Casalbuono its presence is documented since the beginning of the thirteenth century. It is in virtue of a nearly thousand-year history that the attention of Sebastian and Joseph Elefante Rofrano focused on product excellence can and should be the future development not only of Casalbuono but the entire Valley of the Heat. But how were prepared
these vegetables? Considered for years the meat of the poor since they have been for decades the main source of protein for generations remained a luxury for which veal, beef or pork, cooked without water bath were daily and never add cold water to ensure that the beans are peeled out leaving the meat in that case would have gone irretrievably lost in the cooking liquid. Eighty grandma still handsome tells us that his mother cooks them near the fire in an earthenware pot because "the earth is in the ground and die." Is the main ingredient, the one that absolutely could not miss was the patient because cooking takes hours and hours in silence and the utmost attention to every gesture. In this container, then you also put the beans first and the potatoes cut into pieces and the result was mouth-watering. And it was a big party around the fireplace when the girls even more diligent to participate was given, though always under the strict surveillance of the elderly, the secrets of those already made. None would dare give up the magical ritual of sbaccellatura, the beating with a stick and cleaning up with cirnicchio then to arrive at the dinner table unforgettable flavor dishes such as beans and lagane with beans that had provided even the minimum contribution waiting to be quickly great.
http://www.lucianopignataro.it/a/i-fagioli-di-casalbuono-nel-cilento/4709/
Slow Food Community Food
Whites, blacks and reds, but there are also brown, or simply clear to gray. Their shape can be spherical, cylindrical or rounded, but also tending to round or slightly elongated, there are, in fact, thirteen different varieties: the beans, the tabaccanti, types and Russian climbers', yet the San Pasquale, the Sant'Anter, those known as rice or beans, peas, munaciedd, the panzariedd, the Pasquale Rocco, blacks, and finally, the ciutariedd and Lardaro. The beans Casalbuono, however, considered in any cultivar, are mostly unknown to the public Gourmet, experts and amateurs of good food away because the pages of the most popular magazines and newspapers with more beds.
Today, finally, a group of young people living in this small town of Salerno - a few thousand souls live in it, along the river Heat, six hundred meters above sea level - Sebastian and Joseph Rofrano Elephant in the lead, among other things authors also preliminary research that has surveyed all the existing varieties highlighting its organoleptic and nutritional characteristics, decided to bet on this important resource and promote the work of the 73 producers who grow between Bagnoli, Valle d'Alessio, Willow, King's Bridge, Brignacolo, ischemic and Vallone Salese, all places that arise in the surrounding countryside Casalbuono between Lagonegro and Montesano on Marcellana. And they know the facts - their first public appearance was at Terra Madre, an event organized by Slow Food Campania 20 to 21 September last, at the Stazione Marittima di Napoli - telling their challenge with great enthusiasm in an attempt to sensitize journalists experts and the merely curious, uniqueness of the product. Today Casalbuono the rudder remains in the hands of these brave farmers, of which 38% retirees, 34% farmers and the remaining 28% of operators who are dedicated to the earth as a second activities or simply as a hobby, with determination to preserve the farming techniques of the past, taking care to sow with the expertise learned by expert hands and once more experienced of them ristoccia , dialect word which still is called the field with the remnants of the cereal harvest dates back to the autumn and winter that preceded the bean.
The land is irrigated first, to allow a general softening of the soil and after a rest of three days to go to seed itself into the grooves already in place. There was a time when these vegetables were transported to a typical bag and then be exchanged for other products, even if already in the fifties some of the other more forward-looking merchant saw its potential and began marketing them in the markets of neighboring municipalities, including Polla, Consilina Hall, Sapri and Lagonegro and pushed even more daring in Naples and Salerno. It must in any case to the railway Sicignano Lagonegro-opened in 1892 the fortunes of this bean, despite a Casalbuono its presence is documented since the beginning of the thirteenth century. It is in virtue of a nearly thousand-year history that the attention of Sebastian and Joseph Elefante Rofrano focused on product excellence can and should be the future development not only of Casalbuono but the entire Valley of the Heat. But how were prepared
these vegetables? Considered for years the meat of the poor since they have been for decades the main source of protein for generations remained a luxury for which veal, beef or pork, cooked without water bath were daily and never add cold water to ensure that the beans are peeled out leaving the meat in that case would have gone irretrievably lost in the cooking liquid. Eighty grandma still handsome tells us that his mother cooks them near the fire in an earthenware pot because "the earth is in the ground and die." Is the main ingredient, the one that absolutely could not miss was the patient because cooking takes hours and hours in silence and the utmost attention to every gesture. In this container, then you also put the beans first and the potatoes cut into pieces and the result was mouth-watering. And it was a big party around the fireplace when the girls even more diligent to participate was given, though always under the strict surveillance of the elderly, the secrets of those already made. None would dare give up the magical ritual of sbaccellatura, the beating with a stick and cleaning up with cirnicchio then to arrive at the dinner table unforgettable flavor dishes such as beans and lagane with beans that had provided even the minimum contribution waiting to be quickly great.
http://www.lucianopignataro.it/a/i-fagioli-di-casalbuono-nel-cilento/4709/
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