Many of us know Nunzio Marcelli from visits to La Porta dei Parchi, but he is also the president of Rete Appia (The Italian Pastoral Network). Here he expresses solidarity with fellow Sardinian shepherds after the devastating fires that hit the island this week and proposes ways to reduce the ferocity of forest fires in Italy in the future
Il Coatto / Pecora alla Callara is Abruzzo’s oldest traditional shepherd’s recipe forever entwined with the route of the transumanza
Many people whilst in Abruzzo have slept under a taranta, or under these brightly patterned blankets at their Abruzzesi grandparents, who took them upon emigrating