Every year around October or November a traditional fall food festival is organized in most Italian towns and villages. The autumn food fest is called “Castagnata” which can be literally translated as “The Chestnut Day”. And there is a reason: Castagnata is mainly characterized by roasted chestnuts – the most common autumn gift of nature that actually grows all over the country.

From the Palaeolithic age men ate chestnuts and acorns. Later the Romans started widely cultivating chestnuts and this is how the autumn fruit became the base of the Italian nation. Italians ate fresh, dried and roasted chestnuts, melt it and used the chestnut flour to make bread and other dishes.