Umbria ( Perugia - Umbria Terra Viva )
Umbria Terra Viva
This event is held every first weekend of the month. Early morning, stalls are set up in Giardini Carducci and also in Piazza Italia.
There is a wide array of local produce like freshly baked bread (pani) of all kinds and cheeses (fromaggi). I like the hard crusted bread and goes well with fruity jams.
I like the cheese as well. My favourite is the one smeared with a coating of purple paste. They are wrapped by a layer of blueberry puree. The blueberry flavour and the cheese compliments each other and simply delicious to eat it on its own. As we were given samples to try, within a short time, everyone was queuing to pay and I joined the queue and walked home with 1/12 fraction of the cheese that I have bought.
Even though Halloween is not round the corner, the vegetable stores are displaying all their pumpkins, squashes, and many other funny shaped gourds. There were golden strings of beans in season and also small bite size apples from Alto- Adige region of Trento. Picking your own fruits from the stores are not encouraged as the owners will select for you. They won't want your fruits to bruise easily and not be able to sell them. The jam (marmellata) comes in varied flavours of blueberry (mirtilli),strawberry (fragola) and mixed berries.
Walking around the fair, there are other interesting elements to be explored. There is a store selling essence oil. The owner was eager to explain to the crowd the distillation process for the essence oil and displayed some of the apparatus used. I bought a bottle of lavender oil as she mentioned the medical benefits of lavender to me. She mentioned that her farm is a small village in Marche region and needs more than 200 stalks of lavender to produce a bottle of essence oil.
As lunch was around the corner, I was searching for food stalls and the porchetta store caught my attention. The roasted pork is marinated with some herbs and sliced thinly and stacked between a ciabatta bread. To enhance the taste, sprinkle a dash of pepper and salt for a savoury twist. Pork is a staple of most people in Central Italy and there are also many stores selling sausages ( salsiccia ) that is one of Umbria's proud produce.
This event is held every first weekend of the month. Early morning, stalls are set up in Giardini Carducci and also in Piazza Italia.
There is a wide array of local produce like freshly baked bread (pani) of all kinds and cheeses (fromaggi). I like the hard crusted bread and goes well with fruity jams.
I like the cheese as well. My favourite is the one smeared with a coating of purple paste. They are wrapped by a layer of blueberry puree. The blueberry flavour and the cheese compliments each other and simply delicious to eat it on its own. As we were given samples to try, within a short time, everyone was queuing to pay and I joined the queue and walked home with 1/12 fraction of the cheese that I have bought.
Even though Halloween is not round the corner, the vegetable stores are displaying all their pumpkins, squashes, and many other funny shaped gourds. There were golden strings of beans in season and also small bite size apples from Alto- Adige region of Trento. Picking your own fruits from the stores are not encouraged as the owners will select for you. They won't want your fruits to bruise easily and not be able to sell them. The jam (marmellata) comes in varied flavours of blueberry (mirtilli),strawberry (fragola) and mixed berries.
Walking around the fair, there are other interesting elements to be explored. There is a store selling essence oil. The owner was eager to explain to the crowd the distillation process for the essence oil and displayed some of the apparatus used. I bought a bottle of lavender oil as she mentioned the medical benefits of lavender to me. She mentioned that her farm is a small village in Marche region and needs more than 200 stalks of lavender to produce a bottle of essence oil.
As lunch was around the corner, I was searching for food stalls and the porchetta store caught my attention. The roasted pork is marinated with some herbs and sliced thinly and stacked between a ciabatta bread. To enhance the taste, sprinkle a dash of pepper and salt for a savoury twist. Pork is a staple of most people in Central Italy and there are also many stores selling sausages ( salsiccia ) that is one of Umbria's proud produce.
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