La Bottega dei Bombi has moved to new premises, decorated in different shades of pink and complete with cafeteria, in a converted church, the Antica Chiesa di San Bernardo. Vische had been without a bar since 2019 and La Bottega became a favourite meeting place overnight, especially among the women of the town.
The star attraction in the product range continues to be Romina Fioretta’s jellies: more than 40 different types, strained by hand into moulds, left to rest overnight, then extracted, made with ingredients from Masters of Taste Cascina Amaltea, The Tea and Ziccat. Fruit flavours include lemon, green apple, blueberry, while the ones with herbs and natural aromas feature lavender, rose petal, lemon sage, lemon thyme, cloves, rosemary, mint, eucalyptus, and the balsamic ones pine and peppermint and unique combinations such as lemon and marjoram and orange and lavender. Then there is sukaj, an old liquorice-flavoured Piedmontese recipe.
Biscuits and dry pastries include “paste d’ melia vischesi”, local cornmeal biscuits, plain or favoured with Passito di Caluso wine or orange in homage to the Ivrea Carnival, and novellini, savoiardi and ciambelline sponge cookies. Savoury delicacies feature crackers with caramelised onion and “lingue di suocera”, literally “mother-in-law’s tongues”, crispbreads flavoured with parmesan or rosemary. The range is completed by “michetti di Santa Marta”, sweet bread rolls made solely on July 29 every year according to a very old traditional recipe.
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