In November, the "Sagra della Ciuiga" returns, the salami with turnips from San Lorenzo in Banale (TN), from 1 to 4 November 2012.
The traditional Sagra della Ciuiga will take place in San Lorenzo in Banale, in the province of Trento, an opportunity to savor the ancient gastronomic traditions such as the Ciuiga, the typical turnip salami of these places. On the plateau of the Banale, when the woods of the Adamello Brenta Natural Park are tinged with autumn, it's time for ciuìga again. Masterpiece of butchery from ancient history and today a Slow Food presidium, it is the great pride of San Lorenzo - among "The Most Beautiful Villages of Italy" - which from 1 to 4 November celebrates it with a lively festival between folkloric and gastronomic . On the program tastings, themed and author menus, street performances and ancient music ...
Virtue of necessity. It was a matter of pure necessity when the ciuìga was invented in the second half of the nineteenth century, in a climate of great constraints, at the foot of the Brenta Dolomites. And today that singular salami with turnips, packaged according to tradition only and exclusively in the rural village of San Lorenzo in Banale - one of the most beautiful villages in Italy - is the undisputed gastronomic virtue of Trentino.
Unique and unlimited, the ciuìga is a Slow Food presidium. Originally packaged with only pork waste, in the proportion of 20%, and with an abundance of cooked and chopped turnips, today it boasts 70% of selected pork and only 30% of vegetables. Just enough, however, to give it a strong, pungent but not spicy and truly unique flavor. Unmistakable, like the small and elongated shape, similar to a conifer pine cone ... the one that in the local dialect is called “Ciuìga”.
That rare smoked salami is today a real delicacy, to be enjoyed on its own, reworked in tasty sauces, combined with boiled potatoes and chicory or mashed potatoes and "capussi" (cabbage-hood), laid on slices of lightly toasted and buttered bread and even sliced on pizza. But strictly on site, in that secret and beautiful slice of Trentino hidden behind Lake Garda, at the foot of the Adamello Brenta Natural Park. Autumn is its season, when pigs are killed and turnips ripen in the fields.
The opportunity to taste and buy them beating everyone on time is precisely the Sagra della ciuìga, a traditional appointment between the gluttonous and the folkloristic scheduled in San Lorenzo in Banale on the weekend of November 1 to 4 in the courtyards, in the alleys and in the " vòlti ”(the old cellars) of the medieval village, now in its eleventh edition this year. The event that includes tastings in the cellars, themed menus at a fixed price in restaurants, street performances and ancient crafts. On Friday scheduled "The best and most beautiful dinner" or a challenge in the kitchen between the chefs of San Lorenzo who will interpret the Slow Food presidents.
From Saturday the "Market of Good Food and the Beautiful Country" will start where you can taste and buy typical products of Trentino and the Most Beautiful Villages of Italy, Slow Food presidia, Alpine specialties and the delicacies of the Wine and Flavors Route from Lake Garda in the Brenta Dolomites. Of course, music and street performances also return and themed menus in the restaurants of the village where the ciuìga will be accompanied by other typical products of the area: char from the Bondai stream, mushrooms from Banale, Spressa Dop cheese from Giudicarie, walnuts and Capussi del Bleggio, potatoes del Lomaso, Garda oil ...
In the hotels in the area it is possible to book the special package “Golose customs: Sagra della ciuìga”: 3 days / 2 nights starting from 110 euros per person in half board. Also possibility of extended stays.
For information and registration:
APT Terme di Comano Brenta Dolomites
tel. 0465.702626 - fax 0465.702281
www.visitacomano.it
The events may undergo changes, therefore it is advisable to check the event by contacting the organizing bodies directly. Caccia Passione is not responsible for any changes to the dates of individual events.