Sicily is the 'only Italian region where it produces pistachios (the botanical species "Pistacia vera) and the town of Etna, with over three thousand hectares of specialized production, it expresses the main growing area (more than 80% of the surface region) with a production characteristics peculiari.Bronte, Eden pistachio, with a fruit flavor and aroma are universally recognized as unique and special and one color - green emerald - unique and particolare.L '"green gold", so it is called the "green pistachio of Bronte", is the main economic resource of the vast territory of the town of Etna.
compete for land and skiing Etna, the temperature or the rootstock, the traditions of culture passed down from father to son, the fact is that the pistacchicoltura Bronte, unlike the products of American or Asian origin, mostly with seeds yellow, produces fruits of high quality, highly appreciated and popular in European and Japanese markets for its size and the intense staining verde.Il Bronte pistachio is sweet, delicate, aromatico.Fra various qualities cultivated in the Mediterranean and the Americas has its own color and organoleptic qualities that make it unique in the world with a sweet taste that the fruit produced elsewhere hanno.Viene not appreciated in the Italian and foreign markets for its original taste and adaptability in the kitchen and pasticceria.E ' mainly used in confectionery to make cakes, pastries, nougat, mousses, candies, ice and slush, but it is also delicious in the first and second courses or oranges, is also used nella preparazione degli insaccati (ottimo nelle mortadelle e nelle soppressate) e nel settore cosmetico.A Bronte se ne raccolgono oltre 30 mila quintali.Una ricchezza di quasi 20 milioni di euro che rappresenta poco più dell’1% della produzione mondiale di pistacchi.Il frutto viene commercializzato sotto diverse forme: Tignosella (pistacchio non sgusciato, i brontesi lo chiamano "babbalucella"), pelato (sgusciato e privato dell'endocarpo), granella, farina, bastoncini, affettato o pasta di pistacchio.Nella zona si contano quasi mille produttori. Il Pistacchio è un frutto dalla storia antichissima, noto ai Babilonesi, Assiri, Giordani, Greci, citato addirittura nel libro della Genesi e riportato nell'obelisco, fatto innalzare the king of Assyria, around the sixth century BC, is one of those food and agricultural products, which has helped shape the cultural and culinary heritage of the Mediterranean peoples. Of this precious fruit, brought to Sicily by the Arabs, Bronte is the Italian capital.
Every year in some streets and squares of historic Bronte has been held for many years a festival (the Festival of the pistachio
). From pesto cream from ice cream cake, sausage dall'arancino the festival is the triumph of pistachio in all its variations, is celebrated in September and last year drew 100,000 visitatori.Il well "pistachio green Bronte ", always threatened by imports definitely lower quality, has now won due recognition of PDO
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, with its own defense, protection and wants to protect small-scale production of the excellent pistachio Bronte "not comparable to any other Mediterranean Pistachio and that only grows in Bronte, in Catania. "
