BLACK CELERY

A month of Black Celery festivities!
The carnival is in town and I am out snapping the shows
Being Italy a fashion shoot is taking place.
So I just joined in making sure I stayed out the way.
No one complained.
Now to find some celery……………..

Throughout October, the picturesque Umbrian hilltown of Trevi celebrates its renowned sedano nero (“black celery”) in a month-long array of cultural events. Celery is justly celebrated in Trevi: after all, celery is a key ingredient in many Umbrian recipes . Trevi’s celery is not just any celery. This tiny Umbrian hilltown celebrates a dark celery variety unique to Trevi. Grown here for centuries (and nowadays by fewer and fewer farmers), the so-called “black celery” has recently been designated one of the fifteen or so IGP products of Umbria (Indicazione Geografica Protetta is a term which indicates that the product may be grown ONLY in a specifically restricted area). So limited is the black celery production that virtually all of the annual cultivation is sold in Trevi during the “Sagra del Sedano Nero e Salsiccia”, the yearly “celery and sausage festival”. As very late autumn is traditionally the period of the pig-slaughtering here in Umbria, sausage is partnered with the celery at this October festival.