
Giorgio Colombero
A family of herders in Cervignasco and Canosio (CN)
Giorgio Colombero was born in 1950 and he has been a herder since his youth. He worked in Canosio and Cervignasco.
Colombero describes his work and the profound transformations the profession undergone in the past fifty years. He tells the history of Nostrale d’Alpe cheese consortium and the positive outputs of this initiative, He also pointed out the symbolic value of many practices concerning herding, such as the use bells for distinguishing the different animals.
This interview was collected for a research promoted by the Cuneo Province Council - Department of Agriculture, parks and forest and conducted by the University of Gastronomic Sciences in order to institute the archive Cuneo province agriculture between tradition and innovation.
Video table of contents
- L'attività di margaro a Canosio
- The rent for the pastures
- Transhumance between Saluzzo and Canosio
- Transhumance on St. John day
- The festival of St. Chiaffredo
- Leaving the pastures on St. Micheal day
- Cows in the winter
- The bells of the cows
- Nostrale d'Alpe cheese changes with the weather
- Seasoning Nostrale d'Alpe
- The making of Nostrale d'Alpe in the Cuneo valleys
- The Nostrale d'Alpe Association
- Nostrale d'Alpe cheese: the quality requirements
- Mountain pasture milking
- Traditional weather forecasting
- Milk from Piedmontese cows
- A family firm
- The quality of milked milk
- Traditional remedies for the cows' health
- Breeding and milking
- The Nostrale d'Alpe Association
- Transhumance
- The valleys of Nostrale d'Alpe cheese
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Saluzzo
District: CN
Suburb: Cervignasco
Altitude: 280m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canosio
Attached documents:
Giorgio Colombero
Year: 1950
Profession: Other
Languages: Italiano, dialetto piemontese
Bibliography:
All'origine dei sapori. Cuneo, viaggio tra i prodotti agroalimentari della provincia, a cura di Erica Croce e Giovanni Perri, Bra, Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche-Slow Food Editore, 2012, pp. 64-65.
Document by: Gianpaolo Fassino, Luca Percivalle
Video by: Luca Percivalle
Created: 21-03-2013