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to pay to taste the wine,
which may be accompanied
by cheese and salami, and you
usually need to book ahead.

Gastronomy
The main problem with buying
food in Liguria is that it is hard
to know where to start, and
when to stop. Much of what
you see is best eaten on the
spot. This applies to the
wonderful snacks that the
Ligurians love. Baked or fried
snacks come in all shapes and
Dried beans sold by the sackful at a Ligurian market sizes: from the famous focaccia,
to cuculli (fritters) and torta
the coast, but the best olives Note that the price of a good- sardenaira, a sort of pizza topped
grow along the Riviera di quality olive oil (ideally extra with tomatoes and anchovies
Ponente, none more so than the virgin) bought from a press- (popular in San Remo).
small black olives of Taggia, house is higher than that of an Bakeries and pasticcerie
which yield a golden olive oil everyday oil from a super- (pastry shops) sell all
with green tints and an almondy, market or grocer’s shop, manner of wonderful
lightly fruity aroma. In the area but it will definitely be cakes and biscuits, too.
between Taggia and Albenga worth taking home. In terms of foods to
you can buy olive oil direct take home, you’d do
from the producers: look for Wine better to concentrate
signs saying frantoio, which on the local cured
means presshouse. Liguria is not a major meats and preserved
Most Ligurian olive oil wine producer but still vegetables, such as
carries the quality mark of has some respected sundried tomatoes,
Denomi nazione d’Origine wines, both whites and local artichoke paste
Protetta (DOP), which guarantees reds (see p187). It is and dried porcini
the prove nance of the olives, fun to buy wine direct mushrooms. Ancho-
and the cold-pressing methods from the producers. Olio Carli, a fine olive vies in olive oil are
used in the manufacture. Sometimes you have oil from Imperia another good buy.
DIRECTORY
Antiques Glass and Lace Local Produce Cascina dei Peri (wine
and oil)
Antiqua & Tuttantico E. Gandolfi (lace) Antico Frantoio Castelnuovo Magra
Genoa Rapallo Sommariva (oil) Via Montefrancio 71.
Fiera Internazionale. Piazza Cavour 1. Albenga Tel 0187 674 085.
Tel 010 539 11. Tel 0185 50 234. Via Mameli 7. Enoteca Sciacchetrà
Tel 0182 559 222.
∑ fiera.ge.it Soffieria Bormioli (wine)
(glass) Bottega del Vernazza Via Roma 50.
Ceramics Altare Formaggio (cheese Tel 0187 821 210.
Ceramiche Fenice Via Paleologo 16. & salami) Panificio Canale
Chiavari
Tel 019 58 254.
Albissola Marina Via Martiri della (bakery)
Portofino
Via Repetio 22. Plants Liberazione 208. Via Roma 30.
Tel 019 481 668. Tel 0185 314 225. Tel 0185 269 248.
Stern & Dellerba
Studio d’Arte Esedra (cacti & succulents) Bottega della Strega A’Pestun’à (bakery)
Dolceacqua San Remo (deli) Genoa
Via Castello 11. Via Privata delle Rose 7. Triora Via Boccadasse 9.
Corso Italia 48.
Tel 0184 200 969. Tel 0184 661 290. Tel 0184 94 278. Tel 010 377 75 75.
Studio Ernan Design Vivai Olcese (plants) Bruciamonti (deli) Revello Dolce e
Salato (bakery)
Albisola Superiore Genova Genoa Camogli
Corso Mazzini 7. Via Borghero 6. Via Roma 81. Via Garibaldi 183.
Tel 019 489 916. Tel 010 380 290. Tel 010 562 515. Tel 0185 770 777.

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