Nevertheless, even poorest people identified many solutions,
ingredients and cooking
techniques
To make poor food available more digestible;
To add better taste to nutrient but tasteless food;
Find ingredients easily available and cheap to integrate the
poor basic meal;
Exploit even the smallest resource for food production, also
considering some food that is far from our modern idea of
“food”.
This continuous search for cheap solutions to meet the five
priorities in the first list above
produced – in a delicate balance between needs and creativity
– an incredible variety of
different solutions and recipes, which were diversified even
more in an area, like
Abruzzo, that is characterized by dramatic climate and geological
changes at very small
distances.
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