We were invited to the Festa del Fico Bianco del Cilento, in Giungano we couldn't miss it!
When an invitation from the Cilento White Fig party arrives, it doesn't matter what region you are in, put on your flip-flops, soften those strascinati al crusco for a moment (also because you were in the third portion) and go back to Campania, you load up a Corvo (vice-admin from festival of excellence) on the fly and go, destination? They come. Once again they come.
The Throne of Festivals is on stage to tell you about one of the most delicious first fruits of our Cilento land.From the same organization that punctually brings the tasty pizzas of the ancient Cilento to the axes here is a second event that now takes more and more foot from year to year, there Festa del Fico White.
We have now reached the 5th edition and the call and the influx of people is a well-established festival.
The new edition of the festival
Lucio explains us all available, busy here and there to check that everything runs smoothly, in fact there is a lot to keep an eye on, besides the stage for the inevitable local folk there are many and different food stands, a particularity that it now belongs to Giungano.
Lucio explains to us that they moved to the hamlet of San Giuseppe, from the original historic center of Giungano, mainly for a matter of space.
undoubtedly there is not a row that is one, each booth is extremely fluid, you are immediately served, but the flicker of an alley behind which to discover some delicacy, the shelter of a niche in bricks in which to hide for a moment from the crowd consoled by a percoca in the wine or in general the desire to look around to discover this or that historical nod that unites papping pleasure also with discovery.
We who have always been orphans of the historic center know this well.
He gives us a disproportionate amount of tickets and gives us the honor and the burden of tasting everything.
Stands and dishes
Unleashed between the stands we immediately take a plate of appetizers, as well as being beautiful to the eye they are certainly pleasant for how they are conceived: accompanying small white figs with cheeses and cold cuts creates an intuitive contrast that excites the palate.
Thus all dishes are conceived, with the constant presence of figs.
In short, if it was not clear so far figs are everywhere, which is something I admire for consistency.
If it is the fig festival then the fig must be in every dish.
Clearly such a typical flavor must be carefully managed, you will hardly be able to complete the lineup of flavors from appetizer to dessert, precisely because the fig is decidedly intrusive in the long run.
In conclusion
My advice is usually to share everything with someone, or at least to go without fail with what you like having parsimony of the stack of tickets-figs that tends to run out very quickly between the cost of this or that dish!
In this regard I appreciated the cheese made on the plate and accompanied by figs again, while Corvo, who is an exclusive lover of hanged cheese did not appreciate.
But it is probably one of the dishes that will give you an idea of what you are going to try for the rest of the evening without affecting your palate too much, ditto the sweet fried pizza.
The mousse and the fig babà are sweeter than the dessert, of which I appreciated the size and the fig sorbet enjoyed with pleasure by the pretentious Corvo.
The Throne of Festivals
Falco and Corvo will accompany you on an adventure full of goodness,
triglycerides and lots and lots of music.
