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Carnival Ivrea, on Sunday the Croatian Committee prepares polenta and sausage

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Carnival Ivrea, on Sunday the Croatian Committee prepares polenta and sausage

“We will arrange – explains Gianmario Garetto, secretary of the Committee of Croatia, chaired by Bano, Giuseppe Saccuman – of tables outside our kitchen, in vicolo del forno, in order to create a sort of counter and, starting from 12 and up to while stocks last, we will arrange the distribution of the take-away trays. 20 kilos of sausage and 20 kilos of polenta flour will be used, in order to prepare about 200 portions “

IVREA. Impossible to hypothesize a small carnival movement, in Ivrea, without the participation of the Committee of Croatia-Polenta and Cod which, on Sunday 26th, will not miss its succulent contribution to the Fat Sunday of the Carnival that still does not exist, providing a tasty dish of takeaway: polenta and sausage with sauce. “We will arrange – explains Gianmario Garetto, secretary of the Committee of Croatia, chaired by Bano, Giuseppe Saccuman – of tables outside our kitchen, in vicolo del forno, in order to create a sort of counter and, starting from 12 and up to while stocks last, we will arrange the distribution of the take-away trays. 20 kilos of sausage and 20 kilos of polenta flour will be used, in order to prepare about 200 portions. Certainly it will not be the traditional dish of polenta and cod which, together with the fatty beans, is the symbol par excellence of the Ivrea gastronomic tradition in Carnival time, but we like the idea of ​​contributing, with our polenta and sausage, to the climate of party evoked in Borghetto by the flags and banners with which the Tuchini team dressed the square of the district ».

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Gianmario Garetto, remembers the feeling of dismay that the entire Committee felt, in 2020, when the demonstration, on the afternoon of Fat Sunday, was suspended at the end of the battle of the oranges «It was terrible. Also because, suddenly, we found ourselves with a ton of onions to dispose of, which, in large part, were given away the next day, and with 850 kilos of cod that could not have been cooked. Fortunately, having not yet started the filleting operations, which usually take place in the evening, we were able to freeze all the fish. Several times, during that and last year, we hoped to be able to cook it and re-propose it in a moment of impromptu party and free from the event, until, last September, after having consulted with the ASL which is always our point of reference for each operation, we decided to defrost all the fish and send it to the Cuneo-based company Monge, the most important Italian production and industrial company in the dog and cat food sector, which translated it into cat food ».

The canceled Carnival represented not only a displeasure for the members of the Committee of Croatia, but also a considerable economic loss which they will try to make up for out of their own pockets, each according to their own possibilities, as they have done other times in the past, when they bought. the warehouses and when they renovated the kitchens. For this it would not be bad if someone, grateful for having enjoyed their exquisite dish continuously from 1947 onwards, decided to make an offer that would help to ease the situation: it would be a commendable gesture of well-deserved gratitude. It is also a way to further recognize the importance of polenta and cod, the typical lean dish with which WednesdayThe austere Lenten period begins with the Ashes. «Its tradition – recalls Garetto – dates back to the second half of the sixteenth century, with the counter-reformation carried out by the Catholic Church which decreed the observance of Lent and lean eating on Fridays and eves. In Ivrea this recurrence was celebrated in the various districts on the initiative of groups of citizens who cooked polenta accompanied by cod and onions in their own districts, as is still the case today for beans. At the end of the Second World War, the Committee of Croatia made this initiative its own, giving it a beneficial character ».

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