The potato grown in the lagoon areas of the Veneto, as well as in the mountain areas or the Vicenza plateau, also has its own history, crucial for the subsistence of the people of Veneto.
Daughter of the hunger that so affected the peninsula and Europe in the aftermath of the fall of the Serenissima, it became a mass product among the poor people. Therefore, this tuber was the only food able to make up for the lack of cereals. And precisely in the islands off the coast of Venice, as well as in the city itself, cultivation became a real challenge, given that the soil was muddy, thick marine mists often arose and suspicious people did not look favorably on such a food on your table, since it has always been used above all to feed animals.
The class that set out to experiment the way of growing potatoes was precisely the cultured and enlightened patrician class, which, after the fall of the Republic of Venice, had offered to collaborate with the French and Austrians, together with whom they studied their own in greater depth. territory to lay the foundations for the future cultivation of the tuber in the reclaimed areas of the estuary.
"I don't think the advantage of this cultivation can be doubted any more; one can, however, still doubt that it is generally adopted. "
With these words, the Venetian nobleman Pietro Antonio Zorzi put in writing the more than legitimate suspicion that peasants were reluctant to replace wheat and corn fields with potato plants. This is a context that brings us back to the culinary quintessence of these areas of our region. Veneto certainly did not live on potatoes alone; many are its delights that we want to share with you.
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