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In the three Park valleys, besides the most characteristic and famous dishes of the Ligurian cuisine of the hinterland, you can also taste other dishes characteristic of each town.
The traditional dishes have been recently rediscovered by the most careful restaurateurs: Baciocca (a cake made with quarantina potatoes, a local variety), Micotti (based on corn meal), rice cake, Castagnaccio or Patuna (prepared with chestnut flour), Puta (a sort of mashed potatoes made with chestnuts mixed together with cold milk), Testaieu (wheat focaccia cooked in special terracotta crocks), San Sté cheese (seasoned cacio cheese, characteristic of Val d'Aveto, produced with Cabannina cow's milk), prebugiùn (prepared with cabbages, potatoes, and field herbs), all tasty dishes characterizing a cuisine poor in ingredients but not in tastes, which are worth to be tasted. As far as desserts are concerned, we should mention Canestrelli and Pine nut pie of S. Stefano d'Aveto, as well as Rotelle of Borzonasca. Cooking in "crocks", used still today in many houses and several holiday farms and trattorias, flavors bread and dishes in a special way. Locations which have more direct contacts with Spezzino, Parmigiano and Piacentino areas, feel the influence of the mountain cuisine of those provinces. A trip and, even better, a stay in the Park should be an occasion to taste and appreciate local gastronomy, a cultural element which is not secondary for a good knowledge of the territory.
In the Park valleys there are still some local varieties of fruit and vegetables, which have been wisely preserved or rediscovered by farmers: among the others, the Zerli red onion, tapparona hazelnut and quarantina potatoes.
In the Park mountain areas, you can still directly buy the main products from producers or collectors of vegetables, potatoes, berries, mushrooms (also dried and in oil), cow's meat, cow's milk cheese (San Sté and Sarasso, in particular) and charcuterie (salami, coppa, beròdi - blood sausages - among the others); in the hills or in the areas facing the coast you can purchase above all sheep and goat cheese (formagetta), oil, grapes and wines (Ciliegiolo, Vermentino, Bianchetta genovese), fruit, hazelnuts. In the whole Park territory, fine qualities of honey, jam, chestnuts, corn (and relative flours), liquors are produced.

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Production area All the inland of Liguria. Product features The King Bolete spontaneously grows in the forests of the whole regional mountain area, with different organoleptic features from valley to valley. Mushroom picking takes place in chestnut,...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
Porcini Mushrooms
Production area: all the Park valleys Curiosities: the Park houses an extraordinarily rich forest biodiversity of plants and animals. The natural products of our woodlands include mushrooms, standing out for variety and quality, and among them the king...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
Quarantina Potato
Production area All the inland of Genoa. Product features White quarantina potato of the mountain area of Genoa is the Ligurian potato variety par excellence, considered the most ancient and tasty local variety. Round or round-oval tuber, smooth...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
St George's Mushroom
Production area: all the Park valleys, in particular in the Municipality of S. Stefano d'Aveto where every year in May some gastronomy events dedicated to this mushroom species are organized. Curiosities: prugnolo, spinarolo, St George's Mushroom :...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
Tapparona Hazelnut
Production area Valle Sturla and Val Carnella (GE) Product features Cultivar of local origins, mainly cultivated in the north-eastern section of Valle Sturla (Val Carnella). Pollen-producing and luxuriant shrubby trees characterized by a rapid growth....
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
Zerli Red Onion
Production area Val Graveglia (GE) Curiosities Onion was considered an "exploiting" cultivation, to the extent that some tenancy contracts listed it among the forbidden cultivations. This depended on the fact that onion needs nitrogenous fertilizers:...
Category: Vegetables and Legumes
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