Our typical food

Pizza consists of a dough based on flour, water and yeast and which is then stuffed, typically with tomato and mozzarella or other ingredients and then cooked in a wood-burning oven. It's a typical of Neapolitan cuisine and today, together with pasta it's the most famous Italian dish in the world. In 2017, UNESCO declared the art of the Neapolitan pizza maker as an intangible heritage of of humanity. The most famous pizza flavor is pizza margherita, because when in 1889, on the occasion of the visit of the royals to Naples, Queen Margherita asked pizza to the pizza maker Raffaele Esposito, he prepared a classic red pizza and added mozzarella and basil. The queen liked the flavor so much that it became her favorite food. 

Struffoli are typical sweets of the Christmas period of Neapolitan cuisine. They are small balls of dough prepared with flour, eggs, butter and sugar that are fried and once cold vengono wrapped in honey and decorated with pieces of sugar and candied fruit. 

There is a legend behind this dessert that tells the story of the Neapolitan mermaid who lived in the Gulf of Naples of which she was fascinated. Unlike the other mermaids, she was kind, singing and greeting sailors. The locals moved by her voice one day gave her seven gifts with an important meaning:  The flour, strength and richness of the countryside; ricotta, a tribute from shepherds and sheep; eggs, symbol of life that is always renewed; soft wheat, boiled in milk, proof of the two kingdoms of nature; orange blossom water, impregnated with the flavors of the earth; spices, which represented distant peoples; Finally, sugar, in response to the sweetness of the siren's song that had managed to kidnap people's hearts. The siren mixed these seven ingredients and gave rise to the famous Neapolitan pastiera.

The casatiello is a savory bread baked in the oven typical of the Easter period. it is stuffed with lard, salami, bacon, cheese and eggs.