Tasting at Fiorelli grocery store in Naples

It seemed as if it were Saturday night and not a weekday for those who were invited for the first tasting of Fontanarosa Saffron in Naples, at Fiorelli Store.
The scent of  risotto with saffron, cleverly cooked by the chef Alessandro, attracted the visitors spreading the risotto scent in the air. The host was the lawyer Mauro Gambini d’Aragona, scholar of modern history, who combines his love for modern history with his agricultural company founded on his family’s farms.
He was giving kisses and hugs to all the visitors and talking about the qualities of his saffron and Carnaroli rice on the occasion of his friend from Piemonte, Igiea Adami Zampaglione, owner of the rice manufacturing company in Terreamano.

In fact, the best saffron in Italy is not grown only in the valleys of Abbruzzo or on the coasts of Sardegna. Saffron of exceptional quality is also grown even on the green Irpinia, in the picturesque village of Fontanarosa on a hill, 600 meters above sea level in the valleys between Fredane and del Calore rivers. It is classified as first category “red gold” The Fontanarosa Saffron. In Switzerland and in Milan as well a in luxurious hotels the starred chefs offered their customers the enchanting specialty of this precious spice.

It is difficult to name those invited at the event, among which Marily Guadagno, Maria Francesca Bruno, Andrea Garolla and Ludovica Zigon, Valeria Ruggiero, Andrea de Rosa, Maria Luigia Capano, Teresa Leo, the cousins Bitti and Maria Francesca Cattaneo della Volta, Gabriella Faraone Mennella and Paolo Semeraro, Urraca Gambardella, Valentina Accattatis Chalon d’Orange, Cristiano Izzo, Robert Bergman, Deborah Esposito Treumann, Lorenzo and Giuliana Zampaglione, Chiara Ghionni Crivelli Visconti, Giorgio Berti, Paolo Profili, Federica e Gianmattia Del Genio, the dentists Alessandro Lukacs, Chiara Barracco, the lawyers Francesco Monti, Luca Calcaterra and the architect Fabio Mangone.

Some aristocrats participated in the group,among which the Princes Andrea d’Avalos e Francesco Caracciolo of Brienza, Paola Carafa d’Andria, the Contes Ermelino Matarazzo of Licosa, Nicoletta Pignatelli di Spinazzola, Valentina Sanfelice di Bagnoli, Giovanni Maresca of Serracapriola, Costanza Filangieri de Candida Gonzaga, Renato de Goyzueta of Toverena and the Marchis Gaetano Sersale.