by Claudia Astarita

Valle d'Aosta is an Italian region where history has been influenced by mountains and national borders. Its traditional cookery revolves around the flavours of milk and cheese, meat, and the products of the land and the environment.

These flavours are the essence of a harsh yet beautiful land, and take us back to the origins of the ancient civilization. With an extremely high average altitude (much higher than that of the other Italian regions), Valle d'Aosta's culinary traditions are those of a border people, inevitably influenced by landscape and history, and by contact with the Swiss and French.

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