date:Nov 15, 2013
st time, said Lorenzo Bazzana, economic adviser to the farmers group Coldiretti. We are getting the Chinese imports, which have a fainter taste, as well as imports from Turkey, Spain and Portugal, he added.
Once boiled and milled by rural Italians to make flour for baking, the chestnut formed the mainstay of diets in poorer communities as a substitute for cereals, with production reaching 829,000 tonnes in 1911 before the postwar economic boom boosted spending power.
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