Trevi - Sedano Nero e Sagra della salsiccia

Sedano Nero e Sagra della salsiccia (black celery & sausage festival)

Fall in Italy brings with it celebrations of the bountiful harvest. This weekend found the hill town of Trevi alive with the black celery and sausage festival! Sedanari (celery growers) bring their finest to compete in Piazza Mazzini for first prize - awarded for celery with the whitest of stalks and greenest of folliage. As fall is also the ideal season for making sausage, the sausage festival is combined with the celery celebration.

If you think of celery as the Rodney Dangerfield (aka "I get no respect") of vegetables, you need only one bite of the Sedano parmigiana or the bruschetta topped with a pesto made from the rich green tops of this black celery to change your mind. Add in one (or two) of these local sausages on a crusty roll and what more could you ask for!

 

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