Culinary Wonders Of Corsica (France), Sardinia and Sicily

[The Lawspeaker]

Corsica may be French but culturally more Italian and thus I will include it here:

In the first episode of Rick Stein's Mediterranean Escapes, the chef travels to the beautiful islands to discover more of their mouth-watering recipes and traditions, a well as looking at how their cheese and sausages are made. Subscribe: http:///BBCDocs Episode 1 of Rick Stein's Mediterranean Escape Inspired by 'good food that stays in the memory for a long time, sometimes forever', Rick Stein journeys across the Mediterranean, visiting islands and places which radiate a vibrant sense of individuality through their spirit, history and food. From spices and perfumes to the lavish use of wine and herbs,
In Sardinia, Rick watches as the local fishermen catch mullet using methods that date back to Ancient Roman times before boarding a ferry to Sicily. In Palermo, he finds one of the best pasta dishes he has ever tasted and pasta alla norma, with ricotta salata cheese from Catania on the east coast of Sicily. In Sardinia, Rick watches as the local fishermen catch mullet using methods that date back to Ancient Roman times before boarding a ferry to Sicily. In Palermo, he finds one of the best pasta dishes he has ever tasted and pasta alla norma, with ricotta salata cheese from Catania on the east coast of Sicily.

Mediterranean food is a large culinary mosaic full of colour, taste and smell created by the Arabs, Greeks, Italians, Spanish and Turks. Join Rick as he travels from Corsica to Crete, straight through the very cradle of cooking in the western world.

[PaleoEuropean]

Corsica may be French but culturally more Italian and thus I will include it here:

Some stuff looks good, but I am not the biggest seafood eater. Eat mostly Salmon, Cod etc. Not even a fan of tuna.

[Mens-Sarda]

Some stuff looks good, but I am not the biggest seafood eater. Eat mostly Salmon, Cod etc. Not even a fan of tuna.

Sardinian traditional cuisine is 90% products of the land, meat and cheese, we barely eat fish, since Sardinians are not sailors or fishermen these things don't belong to our culture, and you can find fish specialties only in the few towns along the coast. Corsica in many ways is similar to Sardinia, many similar specialties, same sheep breed, same cheese production etc.etc, Corsica it's even more mountainous and wild than Sardinia, covered by thick forests, with a territory mostly composed by high mountains with an average height of 2000mt above sea level to reach 2700mt with the highest peak, for half of the year the island is almost all covered by snow. With their mountainous territory they have a great production of chestnuts, that they eat in every possible way, they even make a beer flavoured with chestnuts.

[PaleoEuropean]

Sardinian traditional cuisine is 90% products of the land, meat and cheese, we barely eat fish, since Sardinians are not sailors or fishermen these things don't belong to our culture, and you can find fish specialties only in the few towns along the coast. Corsica in many ways is similar to Sardinia, many similar specialties, same sheep breed, same cheese production etc.etc, Corsica it's even more mountainous and wild than Sardinia, covered by thick forests, with a territory mostly composed by high mountains with an average height of 2000mt above sea level to reach 2700mt with the highest peak, for half of the year the island is almost all covered by snow. With their mountainous territory they have a great production of chestnuts, that they eat in every possible way, they even make a beer flavoured with chestnuts.

Yea I like lamb etc, they do the same when they show Spanish cuisine, they only ever show sea food XD

[CordedWhelp]

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[Mens-Sarda]

In the documentary I've seen that they visited Cagliari, the biggest town and the biggest port of Sardinia, it's perhaps the only town in Sardinia with an indigenous maritime culture. In all the other coastal towns almost all the fishermen are from Campania or from Liguria.


I've also seen that they visited the lagoons of Cabras or Santa Giusta, where there is a great industry of fish farming. Sardinians usually preferred to fish in the coastal lagoons or in the rivers, or to farm fishes in these lagoons, instead of going out to the sea. This is perhaps an heritage of the past, when Sardinia was constantly besieged by Saracen pirates, and the sea was a dangerous place, moreover the coastal lowlands were plagued by malaria, so during the middle ages, nearly all the coastal towns were abandoned because of Saracens or because of malaria, and Sardinians became a people of only farmers and sheperds, totally forgetting the sea.