Fava di Sauris
Sauris Fava Bean
Sauris sits at 1,200 metres where the Val Lumiei opens into meadows, a German-speaking village of wood and stone under the Carnic Alps. Its fava, poan in the local speech, is first recorded in 1683, when a pilgrim from Frattina listed the local crops in his diary as wheat, rye and favas; a weekly menu of 1819 in the village archive has them on six days out of seven, twice in one day on one of them. Early 20th-century photographs show the seccaiole, the drying frames, which are still in use.
Designation
- Certification
- Slow Food Presidium
- Category
- Fruit, vegetables and cereals, fresh or processed
Where it is made
Sauris, Val Lumiei, Carnic Alps, Udine province
How it is made
The plant reaches about 1.40 metres and still needs support, but generations of selection against a hard climate have thickened its stalk beyond the ordinary sort.