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| The Tastes of Lessinia
Lessinia is characterized by a rich wine production and gastronomy, linked to local dishes and products like "gnochi de malga", mushrooms, chestnuts, Monte Veronese cheese, and to famous wines of the piedmont area like Valpolicella, Amarone, Recioto, Soave, Valdadige-Terra dei Forti, and Lessini Durello.
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| Filled Cimbrian Cake
It is a cake linked to an ancient legend about three girls working as laborers during the hay cutting in the meadows of Lessinia. At the end of the summer, they wanted to celebrate their friendship with a cake, using the ingredients at their disposal: homemade apricot jam, Garganega grapes, and Trentosso pears.... >> | |
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| Frolle and Croccanti of Lessinia
A specialty of Lessini Mountains that was prepared for the first time in the far 19th century in the bakery of Rovere Veronese, still working. It is a very crumbly cake based on flour, butter, and sugar, with a vanilla and lemon scent. Modern bakeries also add ingredients like walnuts, chocolate, and honey to make delicious biscuits and crunchy sweets. In particular, the so-called "Esse" pastries... >> | |
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| Medicinal Herbs
Aromatic herbs are largely used in the preparation of herbal products and in cooking. Several medicinal products are prepared with these herbs: ointments, herb teas, and foodstuffs (oil, salt, and pasta) are based on the medicinal herbs picked up in the meadows and forests of Lessinia.... >> | |
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| Caciotta Erbezzina
It is a mountain cheese made with cow's milk and characterized by a short maturation period, whose name derives from the town where it is produced. This name has been given to it after a technical commission awarded it a prize during the traditional "Cheese Festival" held in Erbezzo.... >> | |
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| Cheese Flavored with Herbs and Special Cheese
According to a local habit dating back to the last century, aromatic herbs are added during the cheese processing. Among the most common herbs in Lessinia there are thyme, rosemary, sage, cumin, elder, calendula, nettle, lemon balm, fennel, mallow, oat straw, walnut leaves.... >> | |
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| Cimbrian Cheese
Cheese variety produced in the Municipality of Roverè Veronese: its name is linked to the Cimbrian German people that colonized Lessinia in the past. The milk used is gathered on the spot, often at over 1,000m of altitude. The mountain climate and the quality of the essences characterizing the pastures favor a quality cheese production, with the help of modern equipment, but in the respect ... >> | |
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| Goat Cheese
Goat breeding activities have been characterizing Lessinia since ancient times. Nowadays, a few small breeding activities still survive: the milk produced is used to make goat cheese, both fresh and mature, characterized by an intense taste, as well as a particular goat ricotta cheese.... >> | |
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| Lessinia Cheese
The milk coming from the cattle breeding activities of Lessinia plateau is skillfully transformed into several cheese and caciotte in the local cheese-making factories. Besides the products that have already been described, the products that can obtain the Park Label are the following: Masetto, San Rocco, Lessinia, Linte, Roverella, Bosco, Capriccio, Rigato (that can be soft or mature), caciotte,... >> | |
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| Milk, Butter, Yogurt, and Ice-Cream
The milk coming from Lessinia pastures is characterized by the organoleptic features deriving from the great variety of essences growing in the pastures. The properties of milk also characterize the products deriving from it which, as a consequence, acquire particular taste and color.... >> | |
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| Monte Veronese
Verona plain is delimited in the north by Lessini Mountains, a very ancient cheese-making area whose origins date back to the first 13th century Cimbrian settlements. Monte Veronese, which obtained the PDO in 1992, is a semi-cooked texture cheese produced with whole cow's milk (fresh cheese) or with partially skimmed milk (mature cheese). The former is a table cheese with white texture, sweet,... >> | |
