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					<title><![CDATA[The gastronomic seasons of the city of Perugia - Winter]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[During the winter we have Christmas time which is considered as the greatest feast of the year. 
It is the feast day most appreciated and meaningful thanks to its ceremonies linked to the world of gastronomy. 
Some food is strictly connected with Christmas feasts and that time would lose its meaning and importance without having them. 
We understand better the importance of food if we put together culinary art fascination and ritual dishes which have been characterizing for ages the new...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[The gastronomic seasons of the city of Perugia - Autumn]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Autumn is a meditative season characterized by the folding of the nature on itself and can be placed between the end of the summer and the preparation of the Christmas festivities.
The local event which characterizes this season is the traditional Fiera dei Morti, (Fair of deads) a very ancient exhibition which takes place during the All Saints' Day.
The exhibition is documented in Perugia since the 13c. but there are solid reasons for considering it even more ancient. During first years of...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[The gastronomic seasons of the city of Perugia - Summer]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Summer was a season characterized by hard country working, a time when the fruits of own work were estimated and reckoned up. Most of the peasant feasts take place  during this magic time, when the nature is dazzling and life breaks out in every thinkable possibility.
In Perugia, one of the more important feast of the summer, but not only, was the Ring Feast, a very ancient spectacle. 
The city was invaded by crowding peregrines keen to honour the Ring with which it was widespread belief...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[The gastronomic seasons of the city of Perugia - Spring]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the city of Perugia and its environs, the end of the winter and the consequent coming of the spring was greeted with a typical ceremonial representation of the peasant society of central Italy, known as Sega
la Vecchia (Saw the old). It was based on sawing in two parts an old shrub which represented the "old things" as symbol of the just concluded season, of what was just past and finished in order to gain favour with the coming season. The event happened in the right middle of the...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Torta al testo]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.perugia.com/pgcom_magazine/img/thumb/081501325266.jpg" style="border:2px solid #ccc; float:left; padding:1px; margin-right:8px;" />The Torta al testo is the most typical dish of Perugia which accompanies Perugian families since very long time and nowadays is still firmly at the top of the preferences judging by its constant presence on the table. It is a sort of "pizza", used mainly as alternative to bread, cooked on baking dish which was a kind of disk made of river pebbles knead with clay. This testo was heated on fire and used directly as hob for the torta. 
Currently the testo used for cooking our torta is made of ...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - St. Costanzo torcolo (ring-shaped cake)]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.perugia.com/pgcom_magazine/img/thumb/081501355040.jpg" style="border:2px solid #ccc; float:left; padding:1px; margin-right:8px;" />It is a typical cake of Perugia which is linked either traditionally or necessarily to the fest devoted to St. Costanzo, celebrated on the 29th January.
Once upon a time the St.Costanzo torcolo was homemade during the rejoicings of Saint, now patisseries and confectioneries sell it throughout the year.

Ingredients
500g		flour
125g		sugar
100g		oil
75g		candied citron (small pieces)
125g		raisin 
50g		pine seeds
12g		anise seeds
30g		brewer's yeast
salt





Preparation...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Torciglione]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is an ancient typical cake of Christmas time, very popular throughout Umbria.
Respecting the opinion of some writer, it dates back to the Etruscan time.

Ingredients
300g		sweet almonds (roughly ten bitter)
300g		sugar
2		egg-yolks 
1		grinded peel of lemon
2		coffee beans		
powder of cinnamon
		flour
		pine seeds





Preparation method
Trite sweet and bitter almonds, combine them with sugar and grinded peel of lemon.  
Whisk egg whites with just a little bit of flour...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Strufoli]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.perugia.com/pgcom_magazine/img/thumb/081501356576.jpg" style="border:2px solid #ccc; float:left; padding:1px; margin-right:8px;" />Strufoli were the typical cake of Carnival in Perugia but very popular also in other areas of Umbria as for instance Gubbio, Todi and Citt&agrave; di
Castello, even if they have different shapes and tastes according to the geographic area.

Ingredients
8		eggs
8		coffee spoon of milk
8		tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil
8		tablespoon of sugar
16		tablespoon of flour
1		small glass of mistral
		honey
		alkermes
bicarbonate
		oil





Preparation method
Take all the...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Spit pork meat]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was unfailingly prepared during the butchering time of pork and often was cooked with sausages putting them on the spit one after the other . 


Ingredients
Pork meat
extra-virgin olive oil
salt
pepper
garlic





Preparation method
Trite garlic with salt, pepper and oil for preparing the condiment. 
Season the puntarelle and put them on the spit. 
Put the spit on the barbecue and leave to roast.


Note - 
Prepare a beaten with garlic, salt, pepper and oil to obtain a...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Sausages polenta]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is another typically winter and common dish not only in Perugia or Umbria, but also in various northern regions, where gets different shapes and condiments.  The habit to lay out the polenta on the pastry board in the middle of the table is still in vogue, that for allowing every guest to have it at the same time together.  There are a lot of possible variations for matching sauces and one of the most popular in Perugia is the sausages polenta. 



Ingredients (per 4 people)
500g		corn...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Truffle polenta]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is a popular dish in Perugia, but this valuable bulb is plentiful also in the province as for instance in the territory of Gubbio and mainly in Valnerina. Once, during the immediate post war time, strange to say, it was considered a poor and very common dish on the tables of rural families when truffle was still plentiful and hadn't effectively market. 




Ingredients
500g		corn flour
4		sausages	
white truffle of Gubbio
extra-virgin olive oil
		white...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Pinoccate]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is a very ancient Christmas cake typical of Perugia, Gubbio and Assisi areas and present in the Perugian tables since Middle ages. 



Ingredients
1kg		sugar
500g		pine seeds
200g		flour
		bitter cocoa 
		grinded lemon peel 





Preparation method
Pour sugar in a saucepan and leave to melt on low fire with half glass of water.
Add grinded lemon peel and pine seeds to the syrup. 
Mix constantly adding flour. 
Mix well the compound and when it will be thick but still soft,...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Pancotto]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to imagine a dish more representative of true rural tradition. Is a really poor dish made of just a few ingredients and simplicity itself. 




Ingredients
500g		stale bread
60g		raisins
		extra-virgin olive oil
		salt





Preparation method
After have chopped into pieces the stale bread, put it in a saucepan filling with a trickle of water. 
Add salt as you please and leave to cook for 30/45 minutes.
In half cooking add raisins.
When the cooking is finished,...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Chickpeas soup]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:33  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[It is a very simple soup even if of great taste, suitable to be consumed during winter months but not be disregarded when the air gets warmer.



Ingredients (for 4/6 people)
300g		chickpeas (already stewed)
30g		lard
200g		pasta for soup
200g		peeled tomatoes
1		garlic (clove)
		meat broth
		salt
		pepper
		extra-virgin olive oil
		rosemary 





Preparation method
Make a trite based on lard, garlic, salt, pepper, rosemary and put in a saucepan with oil.
Leave to fry with...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Lentils with sausages]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:33  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Lentils are a dish traditionally linked with Christmas and New Year Eve time especially if together with "cotechino" (type of Italian pork sausage). The classic way to put lentils and "cotechino" together further than with sausages is really popular, but not only in Perugia.




Ingredients (for 4/6 people)
400g		lentils
8		sausages
400g		pur&eacute;ed tomato
		sage
		extra-virgin olive oil
		salt
		pepper





Preparation method
Marinate lentils for enough time (its is...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Spit-roasted piece of pork liver]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:33  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[The season during which the pork is butchered is full of gastronomic appointments and culinary specialities.  Spit-roasted piece of pork liver are a true delicacy and tasty dish of local gastronomy.




Ingredients (for 4 people)
800g		pork liver
200g		pork coal lining
		bay leaves
		salt
		pepper
		extra-virgin olive oil





Preparation method
Chop the liver into small/medium sized pieces, approximately 50 grams weigh.
Season livers with salt, pepper, a little bit of oil...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Beans with pork rinds]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:33  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Is a very famous dish in Perugia and Umbria but not only... Its image is strictly linked to the peasant world.
Is a dish for connoisseurs with a strong stomach. 





Ingredients (for 4 people)
400g		dried beans
80g		pork rinds
300g		pur&eacute;ed tomato
1		onion
1		rib of celery
		white wine
		extra-virgin olive oil
		salt
		pepper






Preparation method
Chop meats.
Marinate beans for about 12 hours and then stew them in a saucepan.
Pass on fire, scrape and rinse...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Cappelletti cooked in broth]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:33  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[It is the most typical dish of Christmas. I don't think that 25th of December would be the same for great part of Perugian people without tasting a good course of cappelletti cooked in broth, since they are really unfailing on their table. 





Ingredients (for 4/6 people)
1kg		mixed meats  (pork, chicken, veal, turkey)
150g		parmesan cheese
1		carrot
1		rib of celery
1		onion
14		eggs
1		leaf of bay laurel
30g		butter
1kg		flour
		broth of capon (castrated male...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Anise biscuits]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:33  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[They are very popular biscuits in Perugia, mainly in occasion of Christmas holidays. In other areas of Umbria have different names and tasty variations.



Ingredients
200g		flour
200g		sugar
40g		seeds of anise
		extra-virgin olive oil




Preparation method
Combine flour, sugar and seeds of anise.
Add oil and make a pastry with tepid water. 
Extract from the achieved pastry less than 10 centimetres long and 2 centimetres wide strips.
Leave the biscuits to cook in the oven at...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Arvoltoli]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:34  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Arvoltoli is another goody Perugian recipe, based on a fried small pizza. Of ancient origins once was consumed during feast days but also as pleasing everyday breakfast or tasty afternoon break. 
Nowadays only a very traditional family or perhaps restaurants which don't disregard recipes of past times cook them.  




Ingredients (for 4/6 people)
flour
extra-virgin olive oil 
salt




Preparation method
Add salt to flour mixing with water to achieve a quite fluid pastry. 
Pour...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Stewed eel]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:34  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Is a widespread dish in the territory of Perugia and Trasimeno
Lake. Thanks to its high calorific value, is really good for being consumed during the winter especially for feast days as Christmas or  New
year's Eve. 




Ingredients (for 4/6 people)
1.200g	eel (already prepared)
300g		pur&eacute;ed tomato
1		onion
1		clove of garlic 
		parsley
		bay laurel
		white wine
		extra-virgin olive oil
		salt
		pepper




Preparation method
Trite onion and parsley and put them in...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Acquacotta ("cooked water") with dried salted cod]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:34  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Soups and minestrones are typical dishes of rural Italy as well as every poor dish based on legumes, cereals, or even realized by scraps or just some bone of pork. Acquacotta with dried salted cod is a very usual dish among countrymen and shepherds of central Italy and represents rightly the agrarian Umbrian spirit . 





Ingredients
300g		dried salted cod (chopped, already soaked and deprived of fishbone)
400g		potatoes
200g		homemade stale bread
100g		pur&eacute;ed...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Smulicata]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:34  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[It is a dish based on stewed vegetables and is considered as one of the most meagre and popular dish among old peasant families. The "sbobba" was another very similar dish based on stewed cabbage and likewise popular in Perugia.



Ingredients
600g		stewed vegetables
1		clove of garlic	
crumbs of torta al testo (kind of bread cake cooked on baking dish)                   
or stale bread
		extra-virgin olive oil
salt
		pepper




Preparation method
Peel, mash and fry garlic in a...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Pan nociato (Walnut bread)]]></title>
					<link>http://www.perugia.com/pgcom_magazine-en/art-recipes-pan-nociato-walnut-bread.htm</link>
					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:34  GMT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[Pan nociato is one of the numerous variation of usual bread, enriched by walnuts and other ingredients which make of it a particularly savoury food. It is typical of the city of Perugia, but currently is more common in the territory of Todi and in the southern Umbria.




Ingredients
600g		leavened bread doughv 
20		walnut kernels
150g		ewe's milk cheese
		oil (half glass)
		salt
		pepper




Preparation method
Grind half ewe's milk cheese and dice the other half.
Trite not...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Sweet  Maccheroni]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In past times it was a typical dish consumed on the eve of All Saints' Day and even a kind of unique course for the meal whereas today is considered as a cake or dessert.
It is traditional in the city of Perugia and widespread in various areas of Umbria.





Ingredients
300g		rigatoni
50g		walnut kernels
40g		sweet powder cocoa
50g		bread crumbs	
honey (2 tablespoons)
		salt




Preparation method
Leave rigatoni to cook in copious salted water.
Trite walnuts and mix bread...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Imbrecciata]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is a traditional typical Perugian and Umbrian soup since is known also in areas as Gubbio, Umbertide and Citt&agrave; di Castello, where can assume different names and variations regarding the ingredients.



Ingredients
100g		corn 
100g		sweet corn
100g		chickpea
100g		beans
100g		broad beans
100g		pur&eacute;ed tomato
1		onion
		extra-virgin olive oil
		salt
		pepper




Preparation method
Marinate corn for about 8 hour, beans for 12, sweet corn, beans and broad beans for...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Brustengolo]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is a typical autumn cake of Perugia, but can be found in every place of Umbria region.




Ingredients
500g		flour
100g		raisins
2		apples
		extra-virgin oil
		salt




Preparation method
Pour flour into boiling salted water mixing well with a wood spoon until to achieve a soft pastry.
Add raisins, peeled and sliced apples, then oil. 
Put the pastry on a baking-pan spreading well up to obtain a layer of about two centimetres wide. Put in the oven at 180 &deg;C and leave to...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Umbricelli]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.perugia.com/pgcom_magazine/img/thumb/081501505313.jpg" style="border:2px solid #ccc; float:left; padding:1px; margin-right:8px;" />Is a seasonal dish widespread throughout Umbria which assumes different names according to the different sites. They are similar to big spaghetti, known also in Tuscany where are named pici. They are known as bigoli in the territory of Gubbio and as strengozzi in the territory of Spoleto. Anyway according to the cut, they can have various shape and thickness.
It is considered an universal dish suitable to every kind of palate and cooking, thanks to its extreme easiness to prepare it....]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[Recipes - Tozzetti]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tozzetti is a typical Perugian dessert but popular throughout Umbria, and can be found nowadays in the restaurants, patisseries, bakeries and in the bar shop windows.



Ingredients
400g		flour
200g		sugar
100g		sweet almonds
100g		piece of candied fruits
	anisette (2 small glasses)
1		egg
3		egg-yolks
		bicarbonate (a pinch)



Preparation method
Beat egg and three egg-yolks with sugar in a mixing bowl. 
Add flour and other ingredients (sugar, almonds, piece of candied...]]></description>
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					<title><![CDATA[RECIPES - Giblets sauce]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Summer was time to kill the chickens and who had the chance to own them couldn't let that opportunity slip and to prepare an excellent sugo coi rigaji (giblet sauce said in dialect) is that the entrails of the chicken.




Ingredients
entrails o 2 chickens
800g		pur&eacute;ed tomato
1		rib of celery
1		carrot
1		onion
1		clove of garlic
		salt
		pepper







Preparation method
Wash well the chicken giblets, especially the entrails.
Trite carrot, onion celery and garlic....]]></description>
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