TOMATO CANNELLINO Flegreo
A tomato with ancient origins in danger of falling by the wayside, and it is now ready to re-launch: è il Tomato Cannellino Flegreo.
Counted among the Campania Region Foodstuffs, Cannellino Tomato is grown in flegrea since the nineteenth century, but until a few months ago there was no organization that was taken care of its protection.
We thought some farms flegree to give birth in January 2018 all’Tomato Association Cannellino Flegreo, in order to promote and give impetus to this valuable local typicality.
Of oblong shape, with a small narrowing towards the center, Cannellino Tomato has the extremely thin skin and a good balance between sweetness, acidity and flavor.
For the presentation to the Press Association was chosen to be representative of the Campi Flegrei, the Cuma Archaeological Park, in a joint action aimed at community development in a broad sense.
A Greek colony founded in 730 a.C., Cuma retains many traces of its past.
The visible sites are the Roman Crypt, the famous Cave of the Sybil, the Byzantine Tower, The Lower Terrace (so-called Temple of Apollo) and Upper Terrace (so-called Temple of Jupiter). The uncertain attribution to the gods are still the subject of debate among scholars.
Just on the edge of the archaeological area are some of the tomato fields Cannellino.
One of the peculiarities of the cultivation is that you must create a load-bearing structure with bamboo canes (from which it would seem that the name "cannellini") and of string to support the tomatoes during growth.
All processing stages (from sowing to harvest) They are entirely manual.
This cultivar is a hybrid modified in the laboratory; the seeds are passed down from generation to generation.
The product is marketed mostly in the form of passed and passed with whole tomatoes, that they have a cost rather supported mainly because of low yield of transformation.
The meeting was attended by the pizza chef and active on the Phlegrean territory that have already introduced the product in its menu.
They declined the fresh tomato and canned cannellini pizza makers Diego Vitagliano of 10 and Federico de Guardascione The height of the pizza maker, flanked by the chefs de Crescenzo Della Ragione The Catagna, Alessandro Moraca La Locanda del Stubborn, Angelo Carannante Caracol, Luigi Colandrea Farm Don Salvatore, Marcello Santini of the Tourist / Raw Bar and Ciro Larynx of Vinaria.
In abbinamento ai piatti, the wines of flegrei Tenuta Matilde Zasso Pozzuoli and craft beers Kýmē Also in version fruity mandarin, annurca the apple and the percoca puteolana, fruits grown in the orchards and the citrus groves adjacent to the Acropolis of Cuma.
The tomato cannellino is extremely versatile result, thanks to its taste almost sweet.
The packaged product is sold to the public at the manufacturers and in some workshops of Naples and its province.
Meanwhile the process is under way for the recognition of PDO – Protected Designation of Origin.
Cuma Archaeological Park
Provincial Road Cuma Licola, 5 – Bacoli, Naples
http://parcoarcheologicocampiflegrei.beniculturali.it/sito/cuma/
Tomato Association Cannellino Flegreo
www.pomodorocannellinoflegreo.com
Companies adhering to the Association Tomato Cannellino Flegreo:
Farm Costagliola – Via Caranfe 1, Monte di Procida
Azienda Agricola Km 0 Flegreo – Via Cappella 313, Monte di Procida
Azienda Agricola Emilio Pignata – Via Domitiana 31, Giugliano in Campania
Farm Raffaele Palumbo – Via Gian Felice 32, Giugliano in Campania
Azienda Agricola Russo – Via Monte di Cuma 1, Pozzuoli
Company Vivaistica Tammaro – Via Cuma Licola 11, Pozzuoli
Masseria Pignata – Via Domitiana 89, Giugliano in Campania
Orti Flegrei – Via Grotta del Sole, Pozzuoli