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Local food festivals preserve Italy’s obscure regional dishes

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In a barn-like marquee in Italy, diners of a rice festival sit at dozens of long wooden tables. They are laden with carafes of wine and plastic plates piled high with colourful risotto dishes: pumpkin and sausage, Amarone wine and mushrooms and truffle.
This is one of the hundreds of sagre that take place up and down the country, especially in autumn. These food festivals celebrate a local produce or dish, from chestnuts to snails, and offer diners some of the region’s most authentic dishes.
But visitors don’t just come for the food. Inside the tents, the dining experience is unique. It’s noisy and chaotic. Strangers sit elbow to elbow and find themselves sharing the wine pitcher by the second course. It is convivial, festive and very Italian.
Many sagre have their roots in historic pagan or harvest celebrations meaning a whole series of appendage activities still accompany the eating. Some put on traditional music and dancing while others content the younger generations with gaudy fairground rides. There may also be historic processions, carnival floats or food-related competitions.
Some food festivals have become commercialised and inauthentic, but here are some of the best that have remained true to the sagra spirit.
Sagra dell’Anguilla, Comacchio

Comacchio is a small coastal town located inside the wild, beautiful Po Delta Park in northeastern Italy. Historically, the community’s economy centered around fishing and particular methods of preserving and canning fish. Their speciality is eel, which is celebrated annually at the Sagra dell’Anguilla.
Along the canal-side streets, bars and restaurants offer special menus filled with fried, marinated and grilled eel. The hub of the festival is inside the historic marinating factory, now a museum. 
In the brick-floored building, smoke billows above the diners as the food is cooked inside the old chimneys once used for grilling the eel. 
The highlights of the menu are anguilla in umido – eel cooked in a sweet and sour tomato and onion sauce – and grilled eel with a succulent crispy skin.
Peperoncino Festival, Diamante

Down in the tip of Italy’s boot in the region of Calabria, the town of Diamante puts on the country’s spiciest sagra dedicated to the local chilli pepper, Diavolicchio. The streets undergo a transformation, bedecked with hundreds of bunches of dried peppers and crimson chilli sculptures. Attendees of the festival adorn themselves with chilli-shaped earrings, red outfits and even chilli crowns.
Street-side stalls sell chillis in all shapes and forms as well as infused in oils, crushed into cheese or flavouring the pork sausage that is used to make the famous Calabrian spread Nduja.

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