Gastronomy

THE GASTRONOMY

The Recipes

		the appetizers

		the first plates

		the meat

		the fish

		the cakies

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The messinese kitchen

Gastronomics information

In the area of the Strait, the tradition millenarian of the peach of the pescespada is to the base of a kitchen, that messinese exactly, famous for the many plates that exalt the tenderness and the aroma of its meat. In the antiquity the pescespada it already figured in the refined caterings more, as it attests gastronomo and to the poet Archèstrato di Gela (IV century a.C.) A typical prescription is that one of the pescespada to gghiotta, cooked that is in one savoury sauce of tomato, onion, enriched with capers, celery and snocciolate olives greens. According to the connoisseurs in order to exalt the meat of the pescespada it must fire of the trance on the live coal and flavor with the sammarigghiu, that is with striking of oil, lemon, knows them garlic, minced parsley and much origanum. Exquisite they are then the chops of sword-fish obtained from the caciocavallo, that is from the front part of the abdomen that comes cut to slices, which come then filled up of scratched bread flavored with little oil, parsley, garlic and pepper.

The chops can be braced to the grill or be cooked to gghiotta.

With the pescespada a pie of pastafrolla stuffs in the messinese also in which beyond to the pulp of the fish cooked to gghiotta fried zucchine can be added, peas, artichokes it slices to you, and that it is said impanata of pescespada. With the gravy of pescespada to gghiotta the paste can be flavored naturally that in the messinese finds its tastes ones more originates them in the seasoning made up of fish or fruits of sea.

Between the first plates traditional it is the typical ncasciata paste of Messina; between the second plates famous it is the stoccafisso to the messinese or gghiotta. As far as the meat, the falsomagro, the involtini, the meat to the pizzaiola and, like traditional paschal plate, the lamb.

To the traditional ovine and goat breeding one rinomata cheese production is tied, pecorino the pepper mill and not, the fresh annealed one, salata and to the furnace, the tuma, the caciocavallo in the traditional shapes to pear.

Beside the plates that they send back to a richer kitchen, ve of they are others in the gastronomic tradition that use of poor seasonings and that they are legacies not only to the typical daily feeding of the world peasant but also to sure festive rituals. Therefore the several ones soups of vegetable, finocchietti, borragini, flavored with raw oil, the rice's soups with ceci and the vegetables, the maccu savoury main course made up of fave sand banks that for the long baking reduce in one soft cream.

Most famous cake of Messina is the pignolata black white woman and/or of difficult preparation and virtue of the best pastry shops of the city with to the not little famous martorana fruit than real paste.

Oenoligical panorama of ancient traditions, in the ancient world two wines had solid reputation: the Turomenio and the Mamertino. Today rinomati messinesi wines they are the Beacon, wine to controlled denomination of origin, from the color steal, dry, adapted to all the meal, with one minimal gradazione of 12 degrees. Optimal also the wines of Milazzo and Barcelona. Between a first dry white man, the Capobianco, a red one, the Caporosso, hill wine, from the color steals, dry ground and full load of body. Between the second ones, wines red white men and of Barcelona. Large wine of pregio the Mamertino di Taormina, wine from fine meal, the amber color, the sweet sapore and the intense scent with one gradazione of 16 degrees.

Optimal the wine from dessert Malvasia of Lipari from the golden color, the gradazione is of 11,5 degrees in the natural version, of 18 degrees for the passita version and of 20 for the strong sweet wine.

Wine cellars

Wine cellar The Vineria - Messina
Wine cellar Musso - Messina
Wine cellar the Wine cellar of the Conte - Messina
Wines and Liqueurs Santalucia Caterina - Messina
Wine and More - Italian
Wine cellar Paone Domenico - Torregrotta
Wine cellar Mamertina - Milazzo
Wine cellar the Casotto - Capo d'Orlando
Rispolo wines - Capo d'Orlando
Wine cellar To the Grape bunch - Taormina
Wine Company Maimone - Giammoro
Wine house Cambria Matteo - Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto

SIRIUS Hotel Restaurant

Street Guardiola Vecchia, 34

Taormina

Contrada Romeo

Villafranca Tirrena

Via 27 Luglio, 36

Messina

Street S. Francesco, 1

Milazzo

Contrada Pullo, 11

Tortorici

Contrada Bufana Alta

S.Savatore di Fitalia

Contrada Belvedere

S.Filippo del Mela

Street Presti - ang. S.S. 113

Furnari

Street Garibaldi, 1

Campogrande -Tripi

Street Jannuzzo, 41

Giardini-Naxos

S.S. 114 - Km 5,470

Messina

Restaurant Lo Scrigno

Royal Palace

Messina