Pistachio: the origins of an ancient flavour
Hi everyone! In this last post of the semester, I would like to tell you briefly about a Sicilian delicacy that captured my taste buds during one of my trips there, namely pistachio cream :D. The use of pistachios in the kitchen is not a modern discovery: already consumed in Ancient Greece and the Orient in the 3rd century BC, pistachios spread to Italy during the Roman Empire with the conquest of the eastern provinces. The Romans, who were greedy for this precious fruit, also tried to cultivate it on Italian soil, but with poor results: the plant, probably due to the climate, never produced any fruit and over time became wild, used only as firewood. Pistachio cultivation in Italy was successfully introduced around the 10th century A.D. by the Arabs, who managed to establish the plant in Sicily using grafting techniques. Over the centuries the pistachio plant has developed particularly in the Agrigento and Catania areas, where it has taken root most successfully at ...
