Go Local! | La Cucina Bianca: discovering the gastronomic tradition of the Maritime Alps

If you are not a fish lover and therefore dismiss a trip to Liguria out of hand thinking that the cuisine is only seafood, you are making a big mistake! Are you familiar with Ligurian cuisine? In our hinterland, more specifically along the moors that separate us not only from lower Piedmont but also from France, the so-called ‘Strada della Cucina Bianca‘ (White Cuisine Route) winds its way, a food and wine itinerary that will amaze you thanks to its, literal and otherwise, distance from coastal cuisine. The flavours are those of the malghe, high mountain summer pastures, and express the simplicity of the cuisine of yesteryear, bringing to the table recipes based on poor ingredients such as eggs, milk, flour, butter and then vegetables such as leeks or potatoes: hence the adjective ‘white‘.