Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino

Typical Products

Products with the Park Brand

Blu Logo - Integrated Agriculture

Green Logo - Biological Agriculture

Products with the brand Parco Ticino are for sale in Magenta.
The President of the Park Milena Bertani has inaugurated the area "Parco Ticino-Produzione Controllata".
It is the first experience of this kind in Italy. Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino becomes the leader in the enhancement of the products obtained respecting the environment and using good practices of sustainable agriculture.

Press release Presentation of the Products (WORD file, Italian text - 315 Kb)
Producers/distributors (WORD file, Italian text - 1,9 Mb)
History of Forno Ambrosiano (WORD file, Italian text - 109 Kb)

"Colori e Sapori del Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino" - The Park recipes (PDF, Italian text - 4 Mb)

Further information (Italian text)

Products Recommended by Atlante dei Prodotti Tipici dei Parchi

Charcuterie

Goose salami from Mortara Igp
If the recipe varies according to the secrets held by each producer, there are some common and well-established rules to produce it: it is necessary to use - in three equal parts - thin goose meat (not frozen), thin pork meat, and pork fat.

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Cheese

"Grana Padano Dop"
The word “grana” indicates a typology of cheese - the hard cheese presenting a granulous dough - but, in particular, the word defines one of the two giants of the Italian dairy production, the "Grana Padano Dop".

"Gorgonzola Dop"
The production area of the "Gorgonzola Dop" is rather extended and it includes three whole provinces of Piemonte (Novara, Vercelli, Cuneo besides the Town of Casale Monferrato in the province of Alessandria) and the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Milano, and Pavia in the Lombardia region.

"Taleggio Dop"
The typical production area of the "Taleggio" includes the whole Lombardia region and the province of Novara in Piemonte, even if the historical areas of this cheese are the Valsassina and the Valtaleggio (here it was given the current name at the beginning of the 20th century).

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Desserts

"Torta Paradiso"
It is a very simple cake, famous and imitated everywhere in Italy. It is the result of simple ingredients, which can all be found in the Oltrepò Pavese area (butter, flour, eggs and sugar).

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Rice and Pasta

Rice
The rice cultivation in Lombardia is very ancient. The main varieties of rice which can be currently found in Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino Lombardo are "Arborio" and "Carnaroli".

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You can find further information in Atlante dei Prodotti Tipici dei Parchi (Italian text), an atlas dealing with the extraordinary heritage of typicality and tradition deriving from the knowledge and the professions created by the centuries-old presence of man. The atlas is edited by Slow Food, sponsored by Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del territorio and supported by Federparchi and Legambiente.