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A very old recipe from a time when bread needed to last weeks-Stories of Agnone

A very old recipe from a time when bread needed to last weeks-Stories of Agnone

In the hills of Alto Molise, in Agnone,Mercedes rises at 3.30 to prepare loaves for the wood fired oven, using logs from her woods, and grain from her fields. The pane casereccio of her childhood was nothing like modern bread, even from the best local bakers. Using methods traditional in her family, alternating crops, using animal ‘sterco’ (manure, no chemicals)…

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Driving up the trabucchi coast

Driving up the trabucchi coast

On the beautiful Adriatic coastline shared by Molise, Abruzzo and Puglia, lies the  “La costa dei Trabucchi’: here large wooden platforms rooted to the rocks jut out into the sea. The arms of the trabucco or trabocco hold a narrow fishing net, il traboccetto.  A complicated series of winches is used to lower and raise the net, literally catching the fish…

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