Professor Emeritus Gabriel Niccoli visits the Calabria Food factory: a meeting between family flavors and identity that crosses borders. An ideal bridge unites the university classrooms of Canada to the valleys of Calabria, linking cultural dissemination to the rediscovery of roots. This is the significance of the visit of Prof. Gabriel Niccoli – professor emeritus of the University of Waterloo and former Honorary Consul of Italy – to the Calabria Food plant in Piano Lago (Mangone), where he wanted to closely witness the production of the classic tomato sauce.
Welcoming him are the Crispino brothers, who are at the helm of the second generation of the company, together with Eugenio Carpino, who is entrusted with the technical supervision of production.
Who is Gabriele Niccoli
Originally from Calabria and always committed to promoting Italian culture abroad, Niccoli has found in the gestures of company production the same profound identity that he has been describing for years in North America. A spontaneous bond that has its roots in the collective ritual of home preserves.
Behind every bottle of tomato sauce there is in fact an intangible heritage made up of ancient gestures, carefully chosen tomatoes and knowledge handed down from generation to generation. This is the cultural alphabet that the Savuto Valley company, active since 1979, has chosen to preserve.
The peculiarity of the processing lies precisely in the absolute fidelity to the home method: the recipe follows the home procedure point by point. Technological innovation intervenes solely to guarantee the most rigorous food safety standards, preserving the authentic and genuine flavor of home cooking intact.
The visit of the prof. Niccoli thus seals the meeting between those who have dedicated their lives to spreading Italian excellence throughout the world and a productive reality that chooses to make peasant memory an authentic cultural heritage, capable of crossing regional and international borders.