{"id":25984,"date":"2022-02-01T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefruitandvegfromeurope.com\/from-ancient-times-to-today-embark-on-a-journey-to-rediscover-the-pear-a-sweet-and-versatile-fruit-with-surprising-properties\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T08:54:51","slug":"from-ancient-times-to-today-embark-on-a-journey-to-rediscover-the-pear-a-sweet-and-versatile-fruit-with-surprising-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefruitandvegfromeurope.com\/en_ca\/from-ancient-times-to-today-embark-on-a-journey-to-rediscover-the-pear-a-sweet-and-versatile-fruit-with-surprising-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"From ancient times to today, embark on a journey to rediscover the pear: a sweet and versatile fruit with surprising properties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The I love fruit and veg from Europe project promotes the consumption of seasonal products with unsuspected health benefits.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The healthy and quick snack so loved by sportsmen and children and which also works as an anti-stress: pears at will<\/strong>, they are healthy and can be harvested all year round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sweets and sugars at the right point since ancient times were consumed everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Romans were fond of it <\/strong>and tasted it in several different qualities, as Pliny the Elder recounts in the Naturalis Historia<\/em>: \u201cthey were eaten raw and cooked and were also used to make particular cooking dishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They were also preserved and dried in the sun and were eaten boiled in wine \u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And in the 1700s in Rome we can even speak of “street food ante litteram<\/strong>“, because pears were sold by street vendors during their wanderings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They made sweets, with cooked pears covered with caramel and skewered with a stick to enjoy all the flavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The term \u201cperacottari\u201d was born, and since these sellers offered poor quality products and were considered incapable, the term takes on a negative meaning and even now we exclaim: \u201cmake a figure of the peracottaro\u201d or \u201cmake a petty figure\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pears are really good! <\/strong>Word of “I love fruit and veg from Europe”<\/strong>, the project co-financed by the European Commission, which promotes the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n