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Have a good meal...Ischia Island Eating And Drinking...
Ischia’s cuisine is full of special dishes that are prepared with typical
regional and island products. Before the boom in the 1960s, Ischia was a rather
poor island, with an economy that was based on fishing and agriculture. The
island’s older inhabitants remember eating bread and onions in this period, or “o ppane sotto ‘e fasule”, stale bread softened with the sauce made from cooking
beans.
Another typical characteristic dish that we can still find in the restaurants of
Ischia, is "pesce all’acqua pazza", which was once prepared with the leftovers
of fish that were stuck to the hook and cooked with garlic, chili pepper and
parsley, and which is now prepared with the better parts of anchovies, sardines
and mackerel.
The island’s most famous typical dish is coniglio all’ischitana (Ischia-style
rabbit), cooked with a ditch rabbit, i.e. a rabbit that is bred in a ditch by
the farmers until it is full size and that is then cooked in white wine, garlic,
cherry tomatoes and chili pepper and served on Sundays. This tasty recipe is so
popular that the ancient technique of breeding the rabbits has been maintained
to guarantee the high quality of the meat.
Travelers with a love for food who visit Ischia will not be disappointed by the “autarchic” cuisine where the dishes are full of fresh, genuine and strictly
local ingredients.
The island’s fertile soil has also produced high quality wines for centuries, mainly from around Mount Epomeo, where the famous wines of Ischia are produced:
from the white wines of Forastera and Biancolella, to the red wines, Piedirosso
and Guarnaccia.
Another of the island’s specialties is honey, especially from the borough of
Forio. It is made with the aroma of citrus fruits or millefiori essence and is
made by hand by the island’s bee-keepers.
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