Scents and flavour of the mountains in summer

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31 July 2017

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Scents and flavour of the mountains in summer

My mountains smell of fir and resin, of moss wet with dew. They scent of woods and meadows dotted with crocus and cyclamen. The green fragrance enters the nose and regenerates the lungs and the spirit.

Mountains in summer are not about hard work: it is about the slow conquest of well-being. When I go into the hills, I feel free and I switch off from everything. I am surrounded by silence broken only by the buzzing of flies or the song of crickets. And if I stop to sleep in a mountain hut, there is no greater excitement than to observe the celestial vault in the dark or to admire the dawn with its thousand colours and shades.

And if you are lazy or unable to walk, you can even drive to one of the many malghe or alpine dairies in the region. Here, where the “cows go on holiday”, the smell of fresh milk is breathed, milk that is then skilfully processed by the dairyman either to make çuç (or “formadi di mont”, mountain cheese), or in scuete (ricotta ), or spongje (butter). How to describe these flavours? You just have to try them in sweet-and-sour cjarsons, in the soft or crunchy frico or in the tasty toc’ in braide. And as a snack or dessert, just try a freshly made, still tepid ricottina, accompanied by a woodland berry jam, made from berries picked nearby. Only in this way will you taste something of how my Friuli really is.

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Sara De Colle

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I’m a natural “torzeona”, a wanderer who loves to travel and see the world, but as far as I’m concerned there’s no place like my home region, Friuli Venezia Giulia.