The medieval village of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi is located in the heart of Irpinia, in the province of Avellino, on a hill about 870 meters above sea level and in a panoramic position. The area is rich in waterways and here the Ofanto river is born and the Fredane, Bocca Read more…
My mother went to Annita’s bakery at least a couple of times a month. When she had to go there I realized it the previous evening, as she commanded me to go to the bakery to get a small pan of ‘criscente’, the leavening dough, the mother yeast that was Read more…
I remember the oven of Annita in via Forno. What originality! It was mostly a dark hovel, blackened by thick layers of soot accumulated on the walls over years and years of activity handed down for generations. The Irpinia earthquake of 1980 made it an indistinguishable rubble. It was not Read more…
