Filindeu (Sardinian : su filindeu) is a rare type of pasta from the Barbagia region of Sardinia. [1] It is made by pulling and folding semolina dough into very thin threads, which are laid in three layers on a tray called a fundu and dried to form textile-like sheets. The dried sheets are then broken into pieces and served in a mutton broth with pecorino sardo cheese. Filindeu is listed on the Ark of Taste. [2]
In the 17th century, a Nuorese bandit built a small church in Lula [3] as an ex voto to Saint Francis of Assisi for having been cleared of all charges against him. [4] For centuries since, on the nights of May 1 and October 4 (the feast day of Saint Francis in the General Roman Calendar), [5] pilgrims have travelled there on foot from Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Nuoro. [6] After a walk of several miles, the priors offer arriving pilgrims a dish of the filindeu and mutton soup. [7]
The recipe and making of the pasta for the soup, which is exclusively done by hand, is passed from generation to generation by the women of Lula. In modern times, there are only ten [8] women who know how to make the pasta. [9]
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda, also known in Sardinian language as Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda, was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
Nuoro is a city and comune (municipality) in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy, situated on the slopes of Mount Ortobene. It is the capital of the province of Nuoro. With a population of 36,347 (2011), it is the sixth-largest city in Sardinia. Its frazione (borough) of Lollove is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.
Pecorino romano is a hard, salty Italian cheese, often used for grating, made with sheep's milk. The name pecorino simply means "ovine" or "of sheep" in Italian; the name of the cheese, although protected, is a simple description rather than a brand: "[formaggio] pecorino romano" is simply "sheep's [cheese] of Rome".
Sardinian or Sard is a Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on the Western Mediterranean island of Sardinia.
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Giulio Angioni was an Italian writer and anthropologist.
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Giovanni Lilliu, was a renowned archeologist, academician, publicist and politician and public figure and an expert of the Nuragic civilization. Largely due to his scientific and archeologic work in the Su Nuraxi di Barumini in Sardinia, Italy, the site was inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.
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Sebastiano Satta was an Italian poet, writer, lawyer, and journalist.
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Shigeaki Sugeta is a Japanese linguist. Emeritus professor of General, Romance and Italian Linguistics at the University of Waseda, and now advisor to the Institute of Italian Studies of the same university, is the author of the first ever Sardinian-Japanese vocabulary.
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