All the previews on today’s episode conducted by Ellen Hidding and Vincenzo Venuto on Canale 5.
Green apple comes back with the episode of July 17. Like every Sunday, the two on the road conductors cross Italy in search of the agricultural and agro-industrial excellence of our country. And they propose them to viewers. The appointment is at 11.55 on Channel 5. After last week’s trip, here’s where they go today Ellen Hidding And Vincenzo Venuto. All the previews.
Melaverde July 17 in the province of Perugia
Green apple, in the episode of Sunday 17 July it is in the province of Perugia at the foot of the medieval town of Panicale, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
“Mountainous, grave, indecipherable, red as the embers that go out, he walks vigorously and slowly through the vague solitude of his tireless prairie. He raises his head with guns. In this ancient bull of dormant anger, I see the red men of the West… ”. These are some lines from the poem “Il Bisonte” by the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
The protagonists of this episode are precisely the bison grazing among the meadows of Umbria. The red men of the west, cited by Borges, are those Native Americans for whom this animal has been a symbol of spirituality and culture for centuries. An animal that lived in the endless American prairies in herds of millions of specimens. But, 150 years ago, it had practically disappeared in nature due to indiscriminate hunting by the European conquerors.
In this episode of July 17, Melaverde tells the story of this noble and powerful animal, which an Umbrian farmer has decided to bring, indeed, to bring back, among these pastures, also starting a collaboration with the Red Indians of the Lakota Sioux.
Melaverde tells an ancient story, of when this bison lived free right in the Umbrian lands, even before crossing the Bering Strait and colonize the great American spaces.
Cervia White Gold
In the episode of Melaverde on July 17, we talk about Cervia where there is the smallest and most northern salt pan in Italy.
We are inside a natural park that is part of the Regional Park of the Po Delta. A site of great historical value but also very important from an environmental point of view and as a repopulation and nesting reserve for many plant and animal species. Like the flamingos for example. A place that can be visited on foot, by bike or by boat.
Once the Cervia salt pan was made up of 144 “Salinette”, Small basins where the salt was collected manually by the quarrymen and their families. Today only one of those Salinette has remained active and produces from 500 to 2000 tons of salt a year. Sale that, since 2004, has become a SlowFood Presidium.
The other Salinette, at the end of the 1950s, were merged into 50 larger basins, where the salt is now mechanically collected, albeit with machinery dating back more than sixty years ago.
However it is collected, that of Cervia it is a special, sweet, wholemeal salt, used in many other local products: cheeses, meats, vegetables, bread, pasta, beer, grape distillate, biscuits, nougat, ice cream, chocolate.
Melaverde of January 17th, he will make us discover everything about this salt and how it is collected and then processed. But we will also discover that around the salt pans, there is an extraordinary environment, protected and to be protected, populated by important animal and plant species. It will be a journey full of curiosities between history, nature and traditions of a unique place in Italy.
Melaverde 17 July between the province of Perugia and Cervia