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The Mediterranean has constantly been one of the principal exchange centre for the enhancement of the world alimentary products.

Commonly has actually been the sea of the taste, of the flavours, of fragrance, of spice. A peculiar quality that has actually formed the society, the economy and also the views, changing it deeply and in a manner practically permanent.

Seasoning generally but likewise basil, rosemary, pepper, olives, citrus white wine as well as the creeping plant and various other thousands of products and also farmings that have gotten into and also transformed this social and geographical space bringing to items exchange and likewise to a cultural contrast maintaining a continuous common value of preference and also practices.

The items, usually of mid-eastern beginning, represent a certain element of this patrimony and have had a remarkable impact in the European as well as Mediterranean gastronomic society.

Cuscus, pepper, white wine, chestnuts and thousands of other products originate from dynamic and millenary exchange as well as the Mediterranean sea has constantly been its interaction room.

Pistachio, an exceptionally antique fruit, known to Babylonians, Assyrians, Jordanians, Greeks, stated also in guide of Genesis and also reported on the shaft put up by the king of Assyrians around the VI century B.C., is just one of the alimentary products included in the gastronomic patrimony of the Mediterranean individuals.

Of this priceless fruit, gave Sicily by the Arabs, Bronte stands for the major manufacturing area in Italy.

Iran is the greatest producer of pistachio on the planet with a surface area of 230.000 hectares followed by Turkey with 39.000 hectares, USA with 31.000 hectares and Syria with 20.000 hectares.

In Europe only Italy, Greece and also Spain create pistachio/ the very first two with around 9.000 hectares and Spain with 1.500, of which 2.000 in Andalusia.

In Sicily the pistachio grows prevalently in Bronte inhabiting there about 80% of the cultivable area, additionally in Adrano as well as Ragalna, in the province of Agrigento, specifically in Favara and also Raffadali, and ultimately in S.Cataldo, province of Caltanissetta.

The typical biennial Sicilian production is about 32.000 quintals of shelled item, 80% of which is exported abroad.