Pumpkin Marina di Chioggia

The Pumpkin Marina di Chioggia is also known by the names in Veneto dialect of Suca Baruca and Marina de Ciosa, it is renowned in the world as the best Pumpkin with which to make the famous Ravioli alla Zucca, in the past in Chioggia, until the 1970s., the Pumpkin was consumed mainly baked in the oven, other variants were, always in the Venetian dialect, the suca col late, the gnochi de suca, but the Veneto dish par excellence was the Soup de risi e suca.

In the gustatory comparison, the Marina has no rivals among pumpkins, the intrinsic and organoleptic qualities are superior. In Veneto, the Marina is the classic pumpkin par excellence and also the best known, very recognizable for its particular rounded shape that makes it look like a turban, markedly flattened at the poles, ribbed and irregular, with a gray and blistering skin.

The pumpkin has always aroused curiosity among people both in children but also in adults, either for its particular and funny shape that looks like a pumpkin in suca or sucon dialect, empty head, the fact is that it has entered the common imagination as the fairy fruit par excellence, we find it in fact in Cinderella where the pumpkin is transformed by the Blue Fairy in a carriage, in the works of Goldoni, to get to the present day at the Halloween party that is of the witches that is celebrated on November 1st whose symbol is represented by the pumpkin. On the other side of the Atlantic, the traditional competition of who produces the biggest and heaviest pumpkin is very much felt.

One sachet of this delight contains 10 Seeds which will be enough to get lots of Pumpkins.

Pumpkin Marina di Chioggia - Cucurbita Maxima