| Verona's recipes
Verona has always had a great tradition for good food. In
fact, the local noblemen, right from the very beginning, had
achieved great fame for their splendid, convivial hospitality
and the meals they knew how to offer during memorable receptions.
Nowadays, this tradition is in the hands of the restaurant
owners and inn-keepers of the province.
They provide an important resource of culinary inspiration,
with their choice dishes. Veronese art in the kitchen continues
today with the work of "master-chefs", who create
or improve on, prepare and "personalize" with a
touch of refined good taste, secret receipes or ones that
are already famous. Typical dishes: boiled beef with "pearà",
sauce (made of bread and pepper), "pastissada de caval",
(horsemeat stew), gnocchi (potato dumplings), pasta e fagioli
(pasta and beans). Veronese cakes "pandoro di Verona",
"natalino" (both are special Christmas cakes), shortbread
and "sfogliatine" (special flaky pastry biscuits).
Typical Product
Verona offers its typical products that are exported all over
the worid, to its guests. Millions of tourists take advantage
of this fact during the summer. There is an even wider range
in winter. The numerous advantages go from the widest possible
choice to extremely good prices.
D.O.C. wines: (with controlled specifications
of origin) Valpolicella (including Recioto
and Amarone, which must not be missed), Valpolicella-Valpantena
(with Recioto di Valpolicella-Valpantena), Soave
(with Recioto di Soave), Bardolino, Bardolino
Novello, Bianco di Custoza, Lugana,
Bianco and Rosso Valdadige, Valdadige Schiava, Valdadige Pinot
Grigio, Tocai di San Martino della Battaglia and Lessini Durello.
You can go to the area where Bardolino and Custoza are produced
following "la strada del vino" (the wine road) of
Bardolino, of Valpolicella and that of Custoza. The Veronese
wines lead the Italian national export of doc wines (about
one million hectoliters).
Olive oil
One of the main features of the landscape around the lake
are the olive trees that grow at a height of 300 metres giving
to the zone the breathtaking charm that makes of it a beloved
place. Lake Garda is the northernmost region in the hemisphere,
where olive trees grow and oliveoil is produced. The local
oil is in fact one of the best oliveoils thanks to its delicate
taste that makes it particularly advisable for fish. Excellent
if used uncooked. Farms bound to the oil producers' association
are opened to visitors and sell the product directly. Worth
to be visited is the oil museum in Cisano, nearby Bardolino,
dedicated to the oliveoil production and its ancient tradition.
Fonte Provincia di Verona
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