What to bring from Italy to be beautiful, tasty, and even with local flavor?
SOUVENIR No. 1. OLIVE OIL
– Olive oil is a must-carry – this is the number one gift from Italy. It is better to buy either Sicilian or Calabrian olive oil – see the region of production. In the southern part of Italy, the climatic conditions are ideal for the ripening of olives, in the north there are much fewer sunny days, so the harvest of olives takes place later than in Sicily or Calabria. Sicily and Calabria are very sunny regions, the oil from there is more viscous and fragrant.
SOUVENIR No. 2. ITALIAN CHEESES
– I would advise you to enjoy fresh ricotta cheese in Italy, and bring pecorino, parmigiano, caciocovallo as a delicious souvenir.
SOUVENIR No. 3. ITALIAN WINES
— Italian wines are a whole world of tastes, aromas and impressions. One of those that I would advise taking as a souvenir is Nero Avola. From Sicily, be sure to bring Marsala wine – fortified dessert wine, in which the Sicilians themselves like to dip cantuccini, Italian cookies.
SOUVENIR No. 4. PISTACHIO
– The best pistachios in the world are produced in the Sicilian city of Bronte. They are slightly elongated in shape and sweet in taste. Here, in Belarus, you won’t buy or try them.
SOUVENIR No. 5. SUN-DRIED TOMATOES
– Sun-dried tomatoes in Sicily are delicious everywhere – thanks to the fact that this region has 330 sunny days a year. Sicilians use a special variety of tomatoes for cooking – large, fleshy, which they cut in half and so dried in the sun. If the tomatoes are very dry, this means that they were dried in the oven and should not be taken.