Short: follow me on Patreon English Since the moment I began to shape the Cornucopia project for the appreciation and dissemination of Italian historical agri-food culture, the world of wine has predictably played a particularly significant role. It’s a realm…
Scopri la storia e le tradizioni della cucina emiliana con una cena unica presentata da Cornucopia presso Orobianco di Reggio Emilia. Non perdere l’occasione di partecipare a questo evento unico! 🧀
The planting of vines, the “vite maritata”, the “alberata” and other ancient methods of cultivation in Italy.
History of italian mostarda fruit preserve wih mustard seeds and cooed must
Papal State, 15th century. Banners bearing the ‘green boughs’ of the House of Ordelaffi from Forli waved in the cool breeze blowing through the hills of Romagna. Covered in gleaming steel mesh, the soldiers of the Lordship of Forlì were…
Attila, king of the Huns, may have been an undisputed symbol of atrocity, ‘earthquake and traccetia‘, but even he had to beat a retreat against the magister militum Aetius, in command of a fierce troop of Goths and Germans, in…
For Bianchino and Sibillone Pellegrino Artusi Pellegrino Artusi was a wealthy man, born in what would become Romagna in pre-unification Italy in the early 1800s. A man who basically had two lives, split by a violent event that happened on…
That the Campanino Apple, or Pomo di Modena as it was known at the time, was extremely widespread to the point of becoming proverbial in centuries past, there is no shadow of doubt. Since the Middle Ages the broli (ancient…
It would be completely foolish and inconsiderate to think of tackling a project dedicated to the historical research of biodiversity and culinary habits without talking about a figure who was born and lived in my neighbouring (and until less than…
It was the early 1600s when Marquis Vincenzo Tanara in Bologna wrote the splendid L’economia del cittadino in villa (The citizen’s economy in the villa), which we have also mentioned in other articles. Tanara, a magistrate and marquis in the…