Salame CON.SA.TI. Cuneo

Name Salame CON.SA.TI. Cuneo Seal of quality Seal of private and/or trades nature Description Delicatessen product of a cylindrical shape consisting of choice pork, fresh and not frozen (production meat temperatures not below -5° C). Salame Cuneo can comes in sizes ranging from 30 g “bocconcini” to the 3-kg ” rosa lunga”. Salame Cuneo must…

Piedmontese Cattle Breed Meat

Name Piedmontese Cattle Breed Meat Seal of quality Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale (PAT) / Traditional Farming Product. Description It is in the area of Cuneo that the native Piedmontese cattle breed has developed and evolved, once used for the production of milk, work and labour, and now bred above all for the production of top quality…

Pork Underbelly

Name Pork Underbelly Seal of quality Prodotto Agroalimentare Tradizionale (PAT) / Typical food-farming product. Request for PDO status under preliminary examination at the MIPAF. Description The product comes in a cylindrical form, if rindless, or “book-like”, if with rind and folded, weighing from 2.5 to 5 kg, resistant to touch, the lean a deep reddish-pink…

Lardo Cuneo

Name Lardo Cuneo Seal of quality Prodotto Agroalimentare Tradizionale (PAT) / Typical food-farming product. Application for PDO recognition under preliminary examination at the MIPAF. Description The product presents a rectangular or square aspect because of at least two layers of lard one over the over, weighing from 2 to 4 kg, resistant to touch, bright…

Capon of Morozzo

Name Capon of Morozzo Seal of quality Prodotto Agroalimentare Tradizionale (PAT) / Typical food-farming product. Description Shiny multicoloured plumage, small yellow head, thin orange-yellow claws, yellow straw-coloured skin and weighing between two and 2.7 kilograms are some of the characteristics of this important animal. The only choice species for the production of the traditional Cappone…

Sambuco Lamb

Name Sambuco Lamb Seal of quality Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale (PAT) – Traditional Farming Product. The Lamb of Sambuco is also a Slow Food Protection and a collective Escaroun Consortium Seal “guaranteed Sambuco lamb”. Description The sheep of Sambuco originally comes from the Valle Stura of Demonte, where it has been bred for centuries, starting from…

Apples – Old Local Varieties

Seal of quality Prodotto Agroalimentare Tradizionale (PAT) / Typical food-farming product. Description The category includes some old apple varieties once grown abundantly, especially in the Cuneese and then almost completely abandoned after the war in favour of new cultivars of American origin such as Golden and Red Delicious. These are rustic varieties, often resistant to…

Caprauna Turnip

Name Caprauna Turnip Seal of quality Slow Food aid Description The Caprauna turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) has a large flat- rounded  root of a yellowish-white colour, and a sweet taste, the sweetness increasing with the intensity of the yellow colour. The root vegetable was traditionally sown on the terraces supported by dry stone walls…

Ramassin of Saluzzo

Name Ramassin of Saluzzo Seal of quality Prodotto Agroalimentare Tradizionale (PAT) – Typical Food Farming Product. Description The Ramassin del Saluzzese is a part of the group of the so-called “Siriache”, originally from Syria. When ripe, this small fruit is a purplish blue and tends to fall to the ground when ripe. Therefore, this characteristic…

Cervere Leek

Name Cervere Leek Seal of quality Prodotto Agroalimentare Tradizionale (PAT) / Typical food-farming product. Description On the outside, this leek has a long, thin stalk, half of which is white, and is usually sold in typical bunches of 20-30 leeks of the same size with the green part cut just above binding point. Its sweet…