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Files and itineraries to discover the local gastronomy

The knowledge, enhancement, and promotion of the local cultures and traditions have always been one of the aims of protected areas. A visit to the river and its territory can also represent an occasion to discover the products of the earth and the skillful processing methods our gastronomy can suggest. Po Piemontese Parks Authority offers in these pages useful information to discover a world of flavors enriching your visit to the protected area, combining the safeguard of nature with the economic agricultural activities to promote the collaboration between the Park Authority and the professional agricultural organizations.

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Restaurant along the river Po near Valentino Castle
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Cocconato Robiola
Category: Cheese
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Dry Tomino Canavesano
Definition Dry Tomino Canavesano is a fresh and fat cheese based on cow's milk, with an acid-rennet coagulation. It has a raw and compact texture, obtained after a short maturation period of 5-10 days. It has regular and cylindrical shape, flat sides...
Category: Cheese
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Fresh Tomino Canavesano
Definition Fresh Tomino Canavesano is a fresh cheese based on cow's milk, with an acid-rennet coagulation. It has a fresh and soft texture, obtained after a short maturation period of 1-2 days. It has regular and cylindrical shape, flat sides with...
Category: Cheese
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Hay Cheese
Definition Hay cheese is prepared with whole raw milk. The rounds can weigh from 6 to 8 kilos, are cylindrical and sometimes slightly irregular because they are shaped in a cloth. They have a low lateral side (8-12 cm), prominently convex, and upper and...
Category: Cheese
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Rivalta Tomino
Definition Rivalta Tomino is a fat and fresh cheese, with raw texture, produced with whole cow's milk. The shape is cylindrical, rather regular, with flat sides of a diameter of 10cm, lateral side of 10-8 cm in the fresh product, which halves in the...
Category: Cheese
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Saronsella Tomino (Chivassotto)
Definition Saronsella Tomino is a fat and soft cheese with white texture, produced with whole cow's milk. It has a cylindrical and tapered shape, round flat sides with a diameter of 8-9cm, low and convex lateral side of about 2 cm, weight of 100 grams....
Category: Cheese
Quality Brands:
Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Baldissero Torinese Peach
Definition With the name "Baldissero peaches" we refer to and safeguard two different groups of peaches, obtained by local selections: - "vineyard peaches" - "grafted peaches" Both peach selections adapt very well to the calcareous soils of Baldissero...
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Brigna purin-a
Category: Fruit
Collina Torinese Plums
Definition The hills of Turin and Chieri have been traditionally interested by the cultivation of a number of local plum cultivars. According to a survey carried out in 1994 by the Territorial Farmers' Union of Chieri and Casalborgone, Regione Piemonte,...
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Isola Sant'Antonio Melons
Slimy and clayey soils, abundance of water, and high summer temperatures create the ideal environment for musk melons: for this reason, agricultural holdings of Castelnuovo Scrivia, Sale, and Casalcermelli cultivate them. Among the others, Isola Sant'Antonio...
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Monferrato Apples
If you think that the apple tree varieties currently cultivated are over 10,000 - almost all deriving from Malus communis, a spontaneous plant growing in the forests and belonging to the Rosaceae family - you can understand that the issue is complex...
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Pecetto cherries
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Pom matan of San Sebastiano Da Po
Definition Pom matan is an autochthonous apple variety of Colline Torinesi. Probably originating from a spontaneous hybridization process, this apple variety has been subsequently selected and reproduced by man. Specimens of pom matan trees can be found...
Category: Fruit
Ramassin
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Rivarone Early Cherry Variety
Besides the traditional plants growing in the family orchards and the most sought-after cultivars for production and trade, in the territory of Rivarone and, partly, in the adjacent territories of Montecastello and Bassignana, Rivarone Early Cherry...
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
San Mauro Torinese Wild Strawberry
Definition S. Mauro Torinese wild strawberry is one of the many varieties belonging to the species Fragaria Vesca L., herbaceous plant belonging to the family Rosaceae. The edible part is represented by the thalamus, becoming fleshy and rich in sugar...
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
San Raffaele Cimena Strawberry
Definition The main strawberry cultivars, produced and marketed on the spot, have experienced over the years a continuous turnover given to the introduction of new varieties deriving from crossbreeds with the preexisting ones. The new varieties are more...
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Trofarello Sour Cherry
Definition Trofarello sour cherries are fresh fruits of the species Prunus cerasus, with a soft and transparent acidulous pulp. Sour cherries are called in Piedmont "griote". In the involved area, the most widespread varieties are ancient varieties or...
Category: Fruit
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Arquebuse or Alpestre
This liquor can be called both "alpestre" and "arquebuse": the only difference is that the first name is used in Piedmont, while the second is used both in Piedmont and in France. Without a doubt, the original product comes from France and, more precisely,...
Category: Liquors and Distilled beverages
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
Bicerin
Definition Bicerin is a hot drink characteristic of Turin, served in a glass: from here the dialect term "bicerin" (meaning small glass). The drink, whose recipe is secret, is obtained from a special mixture of cocoa, coffee, and whole milk. The selection...
Category: Liquors and Distilled beverages
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Traditional Agri-Foodstuffs
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