For the New Year's Eve dinner, the Italians spent 2.4 billion euros on food and drinks that seven out of ten Italians (71%) consumed in their own homes or with relatives and friends while the rest were divided between restaurants. , trattorias, pizzerias, pubs and farmhouses. This is what emerges from a Coldiretti / Ixe survey on the dinner balance which shows a 14% increase in spending with the return to the table of the most typical products of the longest night of the year.
Six million Italians spent the New Year on holiday for the vast majority in Italy where sparkling wine - Coldiretti points out - is confirmed as the inevitable product for nine out of ten Italians (91%) who blew 74 million corks during the end of year parties, followed by lentils in 82% of the menus and cotechino and zampone on 67% of the tables. It is estimated that around 6 million kilos of cotechini and zamponi have been served - Coldiretti points out - with a clear preference for the first courses. According to Coldiretti, during the holidays about 90% of the total national production is made to disappear from the tables, which is largely certified as Cotechino and Zampone di Modena Igp, but there is also an appreciable presence of handmade cotechini and zamponi. For Forte also the consumption of national fish starting from anchovies, clams, sole, red mullet and cuttlefish with - continues Coldiretti - 66% of Italians who tasted salmon arrived from abroad, just 13% allowed oysters and 15% of the caviar, however, often of national production which is also exported. And for fruit, Made in Italy wins, starting from the grapes present in 66% of the tables also for superstitious reasons, while for 42% the search for the exotic resists.