The traveling gastronomic tour, promoted by the Consortium of San Daniele ham, one of the leading Made in Italy products in the world, starts again from Rome, to promote awareness of the famous ham throughout Italy.
Now in its fifth edition, Aria di San Daniele is articulated with a calendar of appointments through a series of events organized within selected venues - restaurants, wine bars and taverns - to present and promote Prosciutto di San Daniele DOP to consumers and operators of the horeca sector. During each event the San Daniele is expected to come served sliced by machine or by hand by experienced cutters e tasted in the recipes proposed by the various establishments. The goal is to explore its characteristics and strengths, disseminate the "tricks of the trade" for slicing and preserving ham in the best possible way and above all to make its intrinsic qualities perceived.
The Tour in forty stages
The tour begins in Rome, and then touches all the main cities of Italy, from Region to Region, for end up in Sicily at the end of November, with a total of 40 stages.
The calendar:
March 22-25 in Rome
March 28-30 in Rome
10-13 April in Turin
19-21 April in Turin
26-28 April in Bergamo
May 3-5 in Milan
May 8-10 in Milan
15-18 May in Verona
2-5 October in Bari
12-14 October Bari
November 6-9 in Naples
November 15-17 in Naples
23-25 November in Palermo
In addition to this, on Wednesdays in July, the main Italian cities (Rome, Milan and Turin) will host a series of picnics, obviously based on San Daniele DOP.
To find out the details of all the stages and stay updated on the events of Aria di San Daniele, consult the website dedicated to the events of Prosciutto di San Daniele.
“Aria di San Daniele represents an important opportunity for the consortium to make the values of San Daniele dop known and appreciated within one of the main sectors, the Oo.Re.Ca. sector. - says Mario Emilio Cicchetti, General Manager of the Consortium - the first four editions of the Tour launched in 2017 generated over 200 aperitif evenings in the main Italian cities and resumes after having suffered a stop in 2020 and after last year's reduced version ".
An ancient story, during the Council of Trent it was snapped up
San Daniele Ham it has distant origins as far back as the XNUMXth century BC.
The archaeological investigations carried out in the Church of San Daniele in Castello have revealed evidence of the use of pigs for food already in the protohistoric period between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries BC. In the Middle Ages the practices of breeding and pork butchery developed. Pork is increasingly present in the Friulian people's diet.
Much of the fortune and prosperity of San Daniele derives from having been a patriarchal fiefdom for over seven centuries; and is the Patriarch who assigns San Daniele the privilege of activating a market. The oldest attestation of the free market dates back to 1063. The privilege was confirmed by Frederick II in 1232.
Later in the De Conservanda Sanitate manuscript of 1453, preserved in the Guarneriana Library, the doctor Geremia Simeoni, while considering the meat difficult to digest, states that "domestic pigs can be eaten as an appetizer the lean parts preserved in salt". A ancient advice for the use of ham.
Le chronicles of the Council rThey then report that the prelates who had gathered consumed “thirty pairs of parsutti” (twelve of which donated by the Patriarch of Aquileia) brought to Trento on the back of a mule from San Daniele, as disclosed in a document dated 1 July 1563.
We then arrive at 1798 when Napoleonic army officers they love Prosciutto di San Daniele so much raid a large quantity together with the "jewels" of the Guarnerian Library.
Continuing in history after the annexation of Friuli to the Kingdom of Italy, Prosciutto di San Daniele is shipped everywhere in the Kingdom and to the European Courts.
We then arrive at 1961 when the Consortium is born and its constitution is characterized by the innovative ideas of a small group of promoters who aim at the registration and awareness of the brand which, even in the absence of a national law, stands as a guarantee of quality of a product at risk of counterfeiting despite being known by consumers.
