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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 governed by sometimes absurd and arbitrary laws, constituting an important slice of our country’s agricultural […]

Cucina Storica Eventi Historical Cooking Modena Reggio Emilia

Un evento sulla storia del Parmigiano Reggiano

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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! 🧀

Una vecchia piantata tra Modena, Bologna e Ferrara

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Of Weddings and Vineyards and Rural History in Italy

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The planting of vines, the “vite maritata”, the “alberata” and other ancient methods of cultivation in Italy.

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Italy’s ancient fruit preserves: the history of mostarda 🏺

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History of italian mostarda fruit preserve wih mustard seeds and cooed must

Rambella, Famoso, Valdoppiese, Valpiesa, Valdupies

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The Famous Rambella 🍇

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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 moving to the border of Ravenna to the north, to scan the horizon for the

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The Traianus Decius apple of Modena 🍎

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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 the mid-fifth century in the bloody battle where Theodoric I, king of the Visigoths, also

Bologna Emilia-Romagna Historical Cooking Nineteenth century

The historical Macaroni Bolognese

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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 his way out of a theater, not unlike what happened to Batman and his parents,

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On the Pàm Campanéin or the Chime Apple

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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 orchard-gardens) of the Estense lands were rich in apple orchards, which in all likelihood included

Mela Gemella tavola di Ulisse Aldrovandi

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In Praise of Ulisse Aldrovandi

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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 a century ago, also the regional capital) Bologna: Ulisse Aldrovandi. I would therefore like to