January, February and March are the winter months in Liguria. Come here in this period has its pros and cons. I list them below: Advantages: In Liguria, you can find many mountains. If the winter is snowy and you like skiing you find here the slopes where pass your winter holidays. For instance in Santo […]
Cappon magro, the mysterious winter holiday dish :)
This is a typical Christmas and New Year Eve period dish. Very Ligurian and very mysterious dish. Nobody knows who invented it neither why its called in this way. The only one thing is sure – it is delicious! Cappon magro is an elaborate genoa’s salad of seafood and vegetables dressed with a rich sauce. […]
Tombola, the game for the Christmas days!
In Italy, tombola is a traditional board game, first played in the city of Naples in the XVIII century. It is mostly played at Christmas time and actually, it became a part of the Christmas tradition 🙂 History According to tradition, the tombola was born in 1734 from a discussion between King Charles of Bourbon […]
Natalini, the Christmas pasta!
This is one of the typical, Christmas dishes in Liguria. It is a kind of macaroni pasta with a very long tradition. ZoneHistoryHow do they look like?BrothCuriosity Zone They are prepared in the zones of Genoa and Savona. History They are a type of dry pasta well known in Genoa already in early 1300 (!). […]
Pandolce, the symbol of the Genoese wealth!
Pandolce is an XVI century Genoese Christmas cake. It is a fundamental dish and without it, in Liguria, you can’t say you’ve feasted Christmas. HistoryTraditionCuriosityIngredients pandolce altoRecipe pandolce altoIngredients of pandolce bassoRecipe of pandolce basso History According to a legend, it was the doge Andrea Doria of the Republic of Genoa who in ‘500 banished […]