VALLENOSTRA
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Roberto Grattone, a farmer and local ambassador, is in Mongiardino Ligure at the end of Val Borbera. To reach this wild vallon, we descend into the valley of Borbera, a torrent that attracts lovers of calm and nature in the summer. Roberto Grattone resumed his family's mountain exploitation in 2000. This local heritage enthusiast has revived, within his co-operative Vallenostra, the manufacture of Montébore, an ancestral local cheese combining the milk milk of cows and that of the sheep. This product, rich in flavour and calcium, has the support of Slow Food. The restaurant at the Vallenostra farm serves delicious peasant butchery from this semi-wild, semi-wild pig, which is seen under the oak trees opposite. Roberto elevates this threatened race (so-called "pink belt") and cultivates an orchard of ancient apples. His wife cooks the large white bean of the Borbera valley and, of course, chestnut, truffle and ceps… A touch of heart!
