Casa Valli - The wood and its Fruit

Into the wide green area near Casa Valli it is possible to go for long walk to look for the fruits that the wood offers during the different seasons and that are the basic ingredients of the typical kitchen.
In various period of the year, wise housewives know where to find the aromatic grasses, the asparagues and different kind of delicate and fragrant mushrooms which the season makes available to them to cook excellent pastas and soups.
Very tasty chestnuts called "marroni" are picked up
for the "castagnate" and to be preserved as jams or flour of chestnuts, to use then for cakes and polente. The wood strawberries are excellent for fruit salads and are refined ingredient for distilled and liquors. Dark hips, raspberries and sambuco become jams showed in the shelves of the houses, unfailing ingredients in the breakfast of all the inhabitants of the area. So a territory is turned into tradition and tradition become food: so the territory can be tasted and smelt.