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Only the carrot with green tuft was collected by hand in fields

27/01/2011 - Sloweb

In view of the winter vegetables carrots never fail, because they are all year round. Impact on their quality a lot of money, but they remain for 12 months between 80 cents and € 1.50 per kilo, depending on quality. Large farmers emerge only ten cents, but often because they still sell them in the field, and then the wholesaler is to harvest them, wash them, select them. This explains, but only in part, the big mark-up. for our attempts to eat in a sustainable manner may help to know where they come from a large majority on the basis of periods. From December to February have primacy areas around Fiumicino to the Centre and the North Chioggia (by extension, the entire Po Po). Then, in March and April is the time of Sicily, then in May and June are back in Fiumicino and Chioggia (are seeded in a cyclical manner to cover all the "holes" in the market). Throughout the summer until October instead of coming in Fucino Abruzzo and Lazio back in November, and Veneto. Avoiding a priori those who come from far away, we speak only Italian and carrots in these cases of large-scale production because the market stalls can still provide throughout Italy of local products all year round, easy to find. We do not use greenhouses in winter than are covered with the sheets or, as is done in San Rocco Castagnaretta near Cuneo (the best), with rice straw. This avoids the large cold storage as in the industrial sector and to have a product that is pretty cool, and richer in taste and nutritional properties. It must be said that the green tuft is still attached so the guarantee of freshness, but above all shows that have been harvested by hand because mechanical harvesting on large grounds off the first green and then "ara" to collect the product. Finally, a curious but reporting "taste" in San Vito di Polignano a Mare, Puglia, there are exceptional carrots, tasty, grown on sandy soils near the sea. It is a recent Slow Food, there are from November to May and have the particularity of being too yellow, dark purple, blue or white. They are the result of traditional seed conservation by many small farmers and raw carrots with vinaigrette know the square. Charles Bogliotti Heading the Saturday Market is on every Saturday at La Stampa of weather source: www.slowfood.it