Italiano
There are about 32 million Italians who, with the crisis, often devote themselves to the preparation of homemade desserts that is this year’s Carnival in the maximum expression, for variety and savings. Is what emerges from a Coldiretti analysis that at the last weekend before “Shrove Tuesday” of Carnival 2015 has drawn up a map of regional specialties. They want a taste? Here you are Berlingozzi and cenci in Toscana, cicerchiata in Abruzzo, brugnolus and orillettas in Sardegna, galani in Veneto, sfrappole in Emilia Romagna, bugie in Liguria, chiacchiere in Basilicata, crostoli in Friuli, frappe and castagnole in Lazio, pignolata in black and white in Sicily and grostoi in Trentino. He could never miss the Campania on this list? Of course not seen that in “Terra Felix”, these days, according to the analysis of Coldiretti, it’s all a proliferation of struffoli (who said that you only eat at Christmas and New Year?) and sanguinaccio, but also to chiacchiere, pastiere, zeppole fritte and migliaccio, we add. “They are – Coldiretti – just some of the specialties surveyed regionally and Italians rediscovered in the days of the carnival.” But the real news this year – Coldiretti – is the tendency to home preparation is due to the need for savings dictated by the crisis but also by the pleasure to express their personal creativity in making sweets to offer family or relatives and friends . And from this point of view, the chefs do it yourself “made in Campania“, are second to none. Starting from regional recipes that use mainly simple ingredients such as flour, sugar, butter, honey and eggs can make a good figure for less than five euro per kilo doing also address the energy consumption for cooking. In contrast to purchase baked in pastry or you spend 15 to 30 euro per kilo, prices stable or slightly higher than last year. Home preparation also offers the opportunity to ensure the quality and freshness of the ingredients that make a difference to the end result, from eggs and honey – Coldiretti – can also be purchased at farmers’ markets country where friend are offered sometimes sweet traditional country that have nothing to do with the low cost industrial products. It’s not just for this, however, that the homemade are preferred by children who – Coldiretti – are rediscovering the pride to show at school or in private parties the ability in the kitchen of their mothers. The fact that a portion of 50 grams of frappe contains 235 kilocalories means that moderate consumption does not have dramatic effects on diet and health because the deprivation in a time of celebration, especially for the little ones, can have negative effects on mood. The party – reminds Coldiretti – builds on the tradition of the country, where it marked the transition between the winter and the spring and the beginning of the sowing in the fields that had to be celebrated with abundance. The banquets are very rich carnival of course because, once in this period they used to consume all the products of the earth, not storable, ahead of the Lenten fast.
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