A stroll in town or in the village at the right time is an occasion to buy delicacies or enjoy a rest at some rustic trattoria: the local gastronomy is very diversified.

Top choices are dairy products and cheeses, with rich caciocavalli  and strong pecorini (ewe’s milk cheese). Salamis and sausages include special products like liver sausages, the hot ventricina, the tasty porchetta called pampanella and the ciccioli or cicoli used to dress a type of  soft pizza .There is a wide choice  of different types of bread, pasta and other oven products, like the schianata, soft pasta  pie slightly salted, the pizza di granone made with mais , the cavatielli and maccheroni alla chitarra, dressed with lamb sauce or broccolis.

Among the meats pride of place is reserved to the lamb cooked in the oven or stewed, whilst fish soups, fried fish  and pasta with shell fish are some of the best fish specialities. On the market stalls a very special dish is the skate which is fried and dressed with bread crumbs, saffron  (which gives it the bright yellow colour) and vinegar and then stored , sliced, in wooden containers; this is a centuries old technique, used to store fish for a long time, and trade it for agricultural products.