We retrace her story through art and monuments. Warning: Missing argument 2 for AV_CPT_Recipe::load_post_content_single_page() in /membri/.dummy/branches/beta-legacy/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/altervista/classes/custom-post-type/class-av-cpt-recipe.In the mountains of Reggio Emilia there is an area known as "Terre di Canossa": this is the territory where the castles in which the life of Matilda of Canossa, one of the most extraordinary and influential women in all of history, unfolded. (Italiano) PETTO DI POLLO FARCITO CON RICOTTA, SPINACI E ASIAGO (Italiano) SPAGHETTI CON AGLIO, OLIO, GAMBERI ROSSI, LIMONE, PECORINO E MENTA (Italiano) SALTIMBOCCA DI PESCATRICE CON INSALATINA DI ASPARAGI (Italiano) INVOLTINI CROCCANTI CON JULIENNE DI VERDURE, GAMBERO FRITTO E SALSA AGRODOLCE (Italiano) Faraona laccata al miele con salsa al passito di Pantelleria Warning: Missing argument 2 for AV_CPT_Recipe::load_post_content_single_page() in /membri/.dummy/branches/beta-legacy/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/altervista/classes/custom-post-type/class-av-cpt-recipe.php on line 143 It’s time to go…I thank Matilde (now we are great friends) and I have my usual coffee in my house, in 2013! Bye We get to the dessert, this term comes from the old French desservir which meant clearing the table ” and ” just to close the meal is offered to us as a digestive candy served with ippocrasso ” ” ( the name alone scares me !) Mulled wine spicy with pieces of seasoned cheese, then fresh fruit covered with sugar and honey ( help! ! ), I still syrups are offered with sweets made of cooked fruit but wanting … there is also a variety ‘ wide of pancakes, sugary crepes, puddings, cakes and pastries that contain fruit and pastry … to end (thank God !) marzipan at will ‘ (believed was introduced by the Arabs ). Main dish is a soup container of all the vegetables with bread and bits of meat, now comes a nice grilled chicken almond milk and here the meeting between sweet and savory transforms a poor product such as poultry in an exaltation of flavor all its own. Of course, before we dive into this adventure, we discovered a whole series of rules to follow :ġ – Do not spit on the dinner table … (thank goodness !)ģ – After blowing your nose, wipe his fingers, not on the tablecloth, but … in your robe ! ![]() Ī curiosity … a decree provided the limit ( mind you !) Of what could commandeer a bishop at every stage of his pastoral visits with all his followers : 50 loaves, 10 chickens, 50 eggs, 5 pigs … ( imagine …people was surely happyfor this ” holy ” little visits !)īut it’s time to enter to the court of Matilda of Canossa :we can see a table full of silver trays, bowls of gold, there are numerous courses, here comes wild boars roasted whole, omelettes hundreds of eggs, huge jugs of wine, and fruit bowls filled, we do not believe our eyes … there are forks … For some religious days people ate: lasagna at Christmas … spelled Carnival … eggs and cheese Ascension … goose for All Saints … lamb at Easter, so tells us a poet of the ’200from Orvieto. In the Middle Ages were used special combinations like sweet-sour, sweet – salty, sweet – spicy. The peasants ate a soup in the middle morning, the bread (which was baked in large loaves every 15 days) cheese and boiled chestnuts during the day and in the evening … a beautiful soup! At the table of the nobles game was topped was with many spices extremely expensive since they were imported from the East. ![]() In this period, there was a freat consume of cereals in form of bread, oat flour and polenta, vegetables constitute an important supplement in the diet, the meat was always regarded as a prestigious food and was present on the tables of the rich and nobles :chicken, pork was popular while beef was less common.ĭuring the late Middle Ages there was the development of a sort of ” haute cuisine” that rapresented a standard among the nobility European Union. ![]() Continuing our journey through the eating habits of the different historical periods we are arriving to the Middle Ages, so tonight we’re having dinner at the court of Matilda of Canossa, female character of great prominence in this period, which was full of intrigues and constant battles but our Matilde demonstred to have extraordinary strength and an innate ability to lead.
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