Description
The European Commission has approved the addition of the Italian 'Ligurian Taggiasca Olives' and 'Carne Salada del Trentino' to the register of protected geographical indications (PGIs).
Ligurian Taggiasca olives are table olives and olive paste made from olives of the Taggiasca variety. The taggiasca, which owes its name to the locality of Taggia, in whose lands the Benedictine monks planted the first strains in the 10th century, is a plant characterised by great fecundity and strength of vegetation but which fears frost and extreme temperatures. It has acclimatised in Liguria, an arch-shaped region that occupies a narrow strip of land between the sea and a mountain ridge that shelters it from the winds and cold.
Carne Salada del Trentino' is a beef sausage characterised by its leanness, mature meat flavour and slightly spicy aroma. The meat is produced and packaged throughout the administrative territory of the Autonomous Province of Trento, with the exception of a few municipalities. The traditional processing and preservation practice used for carne salada has survived in Trentino since ancient Rome, although it has been almost completely abandoned elsewhere.
These two new names are added to the more than 3,680 already present in the eAmbrosia database.
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