Chef Massimo Tringali with the French critic Jean-Luc Petitrenaud

Massimo Tringali, Executive Chef of Emporio Armani Restaurant in Paris (Boulevard Saint-Germain) presents a very special recipe made with our ancient tomato on the famous French TV show on France 5 “Les Escapades de Petitrenaud“, hosted by famous gastronomic critic Jean-Luc Petitrenaud.

The recipe showed by the Sicilian chef is hand made ravioli with stuffed with burrata and laid down on Re Fiascone sauce.

“The tomato coming from the Amalfi Coast – Tringali explains in front of France 5’s cameras – has a very nice scent, it is very rare and hard to find, and form me it is something extraordinary”.

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Experts of the QR-Code Campania checking the soil

Our ancient Re Umberto tomato is grown on the terraces of the Amalfi Coast, in hilly areas like Tramonti, far from roads and surrounded by nature.

These plots of lands are healthy and protected. As we want to prove it also with scientific elements, we joined the project QR Code Campania which aims to monitor production areas by collecting samples of soil and analysing them the labs of the Istituto Zooprofilattico del Mezzogiorno (Zooprophylactic Istituto of Mezzogiorno) and Agriculture Department and Veterinary Medicine of Federico II University in Naples..

We really care about our tomato, and we care about the health of people who wants to eat our ancient King Umberto.

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The farming land for the cultivation of the King Umberto tomato is situated in the community of Tramonti and its 13 villages, a mountainous area of the Amalfi Coast. In 2015 there were five farmers who had received from Acarbio association the almost extinct seeds and contributed to the first experimental production.

In April 2015, the first seeds were planted in the pure and unpolluted land of this area.

On the farming land where Re Fiascone is grown

This area is a UNESCO Heritage and has a healthy climate thanks to the proximity of the sea and the absence of pollution factors. The tomatoes are grown in a mild climate enjoying plenty of sun and the wind coming from the coast. Moreover this land is very rich and fertile thanks to the peculiar volcanic soil, which can be found in the upper layers of the ground due to the ancient eruptions of the Vesuvio that reached also these area with debris and ashes.

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