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What Italians Actually Eat at a Summer Festival


Buon Mercoledì,

Every summer, Italian villages hold a sagra, a festival built entirely around one dish or one ingredient, with bancarelle set up and food cooked in the open air.

Farinata, gnocco fritto, pizza fritta and arancini are sagra food, made to be fried fast and eaten standing up, wrapped in paper.

Each region keeps its own street food and its own sagra, and every one of these snacks is fried instead of baked.

Here are five of these regional classics:

buon appetito,

Laura
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