Carla Vico Michelino Giordano
Herder and producer of Nostrale d'Alpe cheese in Palanfrè di Vernante (CN)
Michelino Giordano was born in 1972 in a family of herders. His parents was from Palanfrè, a neighbourhood of Vernate. In the 1960s they left the mountain and moved to the plain.
He describe the difficult work of a herder and his everyday practices. He highlight the problems concerning the allotment of public grazes, and the festivals of St. Chiaffredo in Saluzzo, and the one in Vermenagna valley.
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
- The firm and the family
- The abandonment of the mountain in the 1960s.
- The mountain between tradition and modernity
- A hard life
- The charm of a herder
- The herder follows the seasons
- The research of a homr and a stable
- The cattles feel the spring and the bells
- A job destroyed by the transformation of the mountain
- Expanding the herd without exageration
- Nostrale d'Alpe association
- Production techniques for the Nostrale d'Alpe cheese
- A normal day
- Birth planning
- Natural treatments
- Good and bad herbs
- The graze allotment
- Pass the job to the new generations
- The feast of the herders
- The curenta
- St. John and St. Micheal
- St. Chiaffredo festival in Saluzzo
- The herders nurture the mountains
- Food chains starts in the mountains
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Vernante
District: CN
Suburb: Palanfrè
Altitude: 0m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernante
Attached documents:
Michelino Giordano
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: 22-04-2013
