Cilento and its typical products

Curiosity from Cilento

The Mediterranean diet was born in Cilento and precisely in Pioppi. Hence the many products that make up the wonderful and tasty Mediterranean diet.

What are the typical products of Cilento?

The products come from both the sea and the mountains: all delicious that enrich the tables of the area.

All to be discovered and tasted so much that other regions also appreciate these foods and are happy to import them from them too.

Unmatched foods that are there gastronomic richness of a land that knows how to appreciate good living also through the table.

The wonderful products are:

• Alici di menaica: the name derives from an ancient way of fishing with rowboats (the ”Menaide”), typical of Pisciotta. They are often cooked stuffed with goat cheese: this anchovies' mbottunate;
• Mozzarella co’a mortedda: is preserved in sprigs of ”mortedda”: name in dialect of myrtle;
• Caciocavallo podolico: a aged cheese which is prepared only in some periods in a traditional way. The name derives from the milk of the podolic cows;
• Soppressed by Joy: a slightly smoked sausage with a piece of lard. E’ typical of the country of Gioi and is the only larded Campania salami;
• Fichi bianchi: they have a light yellow skin and are a goodness especially when they are dried and covered with chocolate;
• Cicerale chickpeas: they are smaller than normal and are rich in mineral salts. They are typical of the country of Cicerale from which they took their name;
• cacioricotta: a sheep's milk cheese, goat and cow that resembles ricotta.

In addition of course to the classics:

• Olive oil fine straw yellow color: produced by the seculars “Pisci Ottani olive trees“;
• Excellent Cilento DOC wines e Castel San Lorenzo with the variations of red, White, moscato, rosé and Aglianico. They are wines rich in history and praised by poets and singers.

Cilento National Park: a destination not to be missed

Conclusions

The Cilento it's an area “delicious” a must visit and “savor“.

Then, Now, you just have to walk for “to reach” this doc area that will surely not disappoint anyone with respect to its products that they love so much and of which they are happy to make others taste them.

Indeed the “their doors” they are always open: they are very welcoming to tourists who visit and savor their food.

Hurry up because it is really worth it to savor all the goodness they produce with the products of their magnificent land.

The welcoming inhabitants await you!