Rosalba and the Salentine Tradition
Rosalba
spends much of her time for "research".
Rosalba’s research is a constant commitment in order to prevent the
natural bond between local traditions and ancient gastronomy from getting
lost.
As a matter of fact, the knowledge of wild herbs and their use in gastronomy
has almost entirely disappeared today. Actually they are not available in
any market and only few people are able to distinguish this kind of herbs
in nature.
So, Rosalba likes to make long walks along the seashore, sometimes in inaccessible
places between cliffs and bare lands where you can find unusual plants as
the 'mbrucacchia’, or ‘caroselle’, thyme and wild fennel,
flavors and fragrances which can still surprise not only in the kitchen.
Rosalba also loves to pick up fruit for her jams and marmalades: cherries,
oranges, grapes and so on.
