This photo is one I took of a television program that was picture somewater buffaloesnear Naples and how their milk is used to make the famous Mozzarella di Buffala high mallow .
Many Italian pizza makers , include my married woman , importune on buffalo mozzarella for their pizzas . I delight the way this farmer act as with his Bison bison as if they were the family heel .
One of the feature film of the agricultural organisation in Italy that I really care is the enormous amount of TV reporting that Fannie Farmer encounter .
That ’s playfulness for me , because there is always some ag program on somewhere , and I find these much more entertaining than the interminable political discussions that occupy most Italian airtime .
All these agricultural television spotlight tattle a lot about niche motley , old fashioned methods that are being preserved , and why these special foods taste so good .
Without a doubt , small farmers benefit from all this loose publicity , and Italian consumers are continually educated about how their intellectual nourishment is produced .
This education generates consumer confidence and an appreciation of doing thing the “ proper ” mode .
My Favorite Shows … My favorite show are about the specialty vegetable farmers . Normally , the show will be about a farmer and his family who are cultivating some ancient variety that was noted in the records five hundred year ago .
The culture of crimson and whitened - leaved chicory is in particular interesting .
There ’s a bunch of dissimilar method but usually the young heads and base dais are dug out of the quaggy soil , wash , hibernated in spread water bath and then bury again and forced before being harvest .
I appeared concisely on Italian TV myself not long ago . Last evenfall at the farming machinery show in Bologna , a reporter for a national station interviewed me while my protagonist and I were looking at some little scale Olea europaea pressing , and I gave a ringing endorsement of the case of product , pointing out that during the heyday olive harvesting season in the fall , it can be really difficult to get an assignment at an European olive tree press .
Still today , three months after my visual aspect on tv , every few weeks someone stops me on the street in Rapallo and says “ Hey , I saw you on Channel 5 ! ”
A number of people have wanted to talk to me about the olive wardrobe equipment . Cool . That ’s how agriculture goes here in Italy . We ’re all stars ; the buffaloes , the chicories , and that guy from Rapallo .
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