Neapolitan rum baba pastries from Wikimedia Commons

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Campania · Coastal towns of Naples and Salerno

Acciughe sotto sale e alicette piccanti

Deeply savoury, concentrated, sea-salty; the piccante version adds garlic heat and chilli red to the barrel.

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Campania · Cilento

Aceto di fico bianco

Brown, bright, persistent dried-fruit aroma, sweet-and-sour depth.

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Campania · Alto and basso Cilento; Piana del Sele

Acqua di pomodoro

Fresh tomato fragrance, pale red-orange or yellowish liquid, sweet with gently acid final notes.

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Campania · Valle dell'Ufita

Aglio dell'Ufita

Sharp, high-aroma, pink-white, braided and drying in the valley air.

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Campania · Rocca San Felice, Guardia Lombardi, Frigento; Valle d’Ansanto near the Mefite

Agnello di Carmasciano

Naturally savoury, less aggressively ovine than expected, with a pasture-born clarity that makes the Mefite landscape feel edible.

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Campania · Area vesuviana

Albicocca vesuviana

mineral sweetness, sun-warmed flesh, and the feeling of eating fruit grown under Vesuvius rather than a generic apricot.

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Campania · Marina di Pisciotta

Alici di menaica

White flesh tending pink; intense yet delicate flavour; a fish that tastes of one method and one village.

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Campania · Coastal Campania

Alici marinate

Sharp, bright, oily and hot: anchovy made fresh enough to taste the sea but cut by lemon and vinegar.

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Campania · Colli di San Pietro, Piano di Sorrento; also Gragnano, Pimonte, Lettere

Amarene appassite dei Colli di S. Pietro

dark sour fruit, sugar, sun, glass jars, and lemon-cut syrup for a drink that tastes like a Sorrento afternoon.

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Campania · Aree interne della Campania, especially Appennino Campano-Lucano

Ammugliatielli

A small knot of smoke, citrus-cleaned offal, parsley, garlic, and lamb fat; rustic, direct, and made for fire rather than refinement.

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Campania · Prata Sannita and neighbouring Matese communes

Antica pera da sidro del Matese

astringent, granular, old-orchard fruit — a pear that tastes like it was made for fermentation, not a fruit bowl.

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Campania · Area Solofrana-Serinese

Antico bignè di Solofra

A reason to go inland for a pastry tied to one area and one remembered laboratory, not just the famous coast.

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