Every year in Pigozzo, a small village about 10 kilometres from Verona, they celebrate the Festa della sparasina, the Wild Asparagus Festival. Sparasina is the word in dialect for Asparagus Acutifolius from the family of Liliaceae. These wild asparagus grow spontaneously in the woods and close to rivers between April and May, and it’s in this period that the Festival takes place.
I’ve always heard of this Festival but I’ve never been to it or to Pigozzo. This year I saw the advertisement and decided to go right away. Pigozzo is a really small village surrounded by hills that are covered by vineyards, olive trees and forests which made for a perfect setting. It was a fantastic day, sun was shining and the weather was so warm that I ate outside. Continue reading
: whole fruits in a sweet syrupy sauce spiced up with few drops of mustard essence. Here’s the name Mostarda from the French “moutarde” but only because it uses mustard essence in fact it has nothing to do with moutarde or mustard.