Among the Italian regional cooking, that of Romagna is one of the most known and appreciated, and Riccione is the ideal place where to taste it. It perfectly combines a good sea-cooking with fish-dishes with that of the hills, where are most common meat and mushrooms. In the many good restaurants of Riccione, they “bud” always more inviting menus, with a long list of typical dishes of the best Romagna’s cooking tradition and a particular attention to the season’s products. (continua…)

Sweet, smooth, fragrant, white or yellow pulp, compact to the touch and crisp to the bite, nectarines never miss as snack for the sea.
At least in Romagna, the cradle of the European production of nectarines and peaches, the only one inside the Union to boast the Protected Geographical Indication (IGP). A rigid disciplinary protects their typicality and the close link with the territory of origin.
The IGP sticker certifies their recognition.

Different from true peach, for the smooth and not velvety skin, among the many varieties, nectarine has known over the years the wider increase.
In particular, in 2002 the birth in Ferrara  of the Consortium for the Protection and Development of IGP Peaches and Nectarines of Romagna has opened important perspectives both in Italy and abroad. (continua…)

Torriana, Montebello and “Azzurrina”

It comes back also in 2008 - with a name that remember a sort of “pole of the abundance” - the event “Scorticata“. The hill of pleasures” of Torriana, culinary event devoted to the typical tastes and the good food.

Commune of few more than 1.400 inhabitants on the hills of the Valmarecchia, up to 1938 called “Scorticata” - yet today “Scurghêda” in Romagna’s dialect - from the name of the Mountain on which it raises, Torriana represents an old castled suburb dominated by the imposing Fortress malatestiana. (continua…)

Two special Sundays.
If next Sunday advancing in the Riccione back-country will happen to you to see a picnic, a little further another one, then another, do not think it is an hallucination.
Nothing could be more real: since ten years in the two central Sundays of May, the agricultural landscape of Emilia-Romagna gets busy not for magic but thanks to Fattorie Aperte.
The event, sponsored by the Emilia-Romagna Region and become a model to imitate, returns on 11 and 18 May, 2008 and to celebrate the tenth anniversary invites everybody to discover also the naturalistic and historical-cultural routes surroundings. (continua…)

In Romagna attention for healthy food products has never failed, even when “modern” agriculture has supplanted the rural one.
So when in Italy in the early nineties people started to talk about organic food, the theme has found in our region not only a fertile but an already ploughed ground, just ready to receive the seed.
However the productive vocation is one thing, consumption is another.
So even in Romagna, especially in cities, lifestyle of capitalist society has imposed unhealthy eating habits, wrong for their quality of life and for that of environment. (continua…)