Domenico Defilippi
Cortereggio Canavese Piattella Bean
Domenico Defilippi was born in 1938. He was interviewed in 2013.
He explains the cultivation of Piattella bean in Cortereggio. It is an ancient variety of white bean taht is typical of the small rural village in which he was born and lives.
The Piattella bean is grown by intercropping it with maize. It constituted a valuable source of income in the agricultural economy of Cortereggio.
Domenico also dwells on his work experience as a farmer and a lumberjack who left the village to find a new job in Turin. Although he left the village, he maintained a small cultivation of Piattella bean for his family. In 2010, when other local farmers decided to resume cultivation, he was able to provide them with seeds.
In the interview, Domenico describes some of the traditional feastive customs of the village, in particular St. Lucina's day.
Video table of contents
- History of Piattella bean
- The tofeja soup
- Working in the fields and playing a game of bowls
- The work in the factory and the weekends spent in the countryside
- Hopes for the Slow Food Presidium
- The disease of Piattella bean and its selling in Turin
- We sold bean in order to buy some grapes
- Cortereggio and its economy in the 1950s
- Of moon and bean
- The village in Monferrato region where they bought the grapes
- The feast and the legend of St. Lucina
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: San Giorgio Canavese
District: TO
Suburb: Cortereggio
Altitude: 245m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortereggio
Urls: Scheda Piattella canavesana di Cortereggio - Sito Fondazione Slow Food per la Biodiversità, Sito Associazione Piattella canavesana di Cortereggio, Sito dedicato alla storia e alle tradizioni di Cortereggio, Cortereggio Canavese Piattella Bean - The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
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Domenico Defilippi
Date of birth: 11-30-1938
City: San Giorgio Canavese
Profession: Pensioner
Languages: Italiano
Bibliography:
Aa.Vv. (2012), Guida ai Presìdi Slow Food: per scoprire i prodotti che raccontano l’Italia, le osterie che li cucinano, mangiare e dormire dai produttori, Bra, Slow Food editore.
Piccinino F. (2013), Una gran Piattella, in “Barolo&Co.”, XXXI, n. 1, pp. 104-105.
Sitography:
Document by: Gianpaolo Fassino
Video by: Luca Percivalle
Created: 26-06-2013
