Pecora Day 2019, the unmissable summer event organized in Cori by volunteers from the "La Copella" cultural association, returns this year. It's scheduled for Saturday, June 22nd, starting at 8:00 PM, against the enchanting nighttime backdrop of the "La Selva/Fontana del Prato" nature park, in the Abboccatora area. The rustic "Capanna del Pecoraro" hut will be set up, complete with a kitchen and braziers for the cooks, as well as outdoor seating. In the wild woodland of this part of the Lepini Mountains, gastronomy and culture will blend amid the scents of a not-so-distant past, with good old-fashioned cuisine and infectious cheerfulness reigning supreme.
The initiative aims to enhance the local agro-pastoral culture through the rediscovery of its ancient traditions and flavors. A millenary knowledge that once, when the population fed on the resources of agriculture and livestock, also represented a way of being and growing together and progressing in the search for solidarity between people. An event that recalls the ancient predisposition to grazing, one of the original vocations of the territory, and that for years has attracted hundreds of people who can taste, at a "poor price", some of the typical specialties based on sheep meat, accompanied by other pecorino products and local culinary specialties.
Corese wine can also be drunk from a garganella (a bottle) from the “copella”, the ancient portable wooden barrel with a handle and spout, which farmers and shepherds carried with them during long, tiring days in the fields and mountains. After dinner, there will be plenty of space for improvised music and dancing. A celebration sui generis, in full rural style, during which it seems like going back to the past, when rustic daily life unfolded slowly in those green spaces, among woods and valleys, and on weekends everyone would spend time together, like a big family, around the fires having fun and enjoying the food and wine, before the natural cycles of agricultural work and shepherding began again.
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