- Lighter trolley for Italians who reduce their food spending by 5%, reaching 4.6 billion euros between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
This is what Cia-Agricoltori Italiani estimates, according to which never before will the typical regional menu win in 2 out of 3 houses.
If the budget for the Christmas tables is up to 2.6 billion euros, that for 31 December and lunch on 1 January will be close to 2 billion.
The protagonists will be ragù, boiled meat, tortellini in broth, vegetables in batter, lamb, pandoro and stuffed panettone.
For the first time, however, purchases of zampone and cotechino will drop, one third less than the 6 million kg consumed in 2019;
a hard blow on a purely Christmas turnover of 28 million euros.
To compensate for this dish will be the fish cooked in 15 million families, where capitone and sea bass in the head, followed by cod, tuna, anchovies, sardines and mackerel, will win over the most prized catch.
The Made in Italy will still find everyone in agreement, from food to drinks where sparkling wine and prosecco will have the better of champagne, with 90% of the tricolor toasts.
The holidays are usually worth 35% of the annual sales of sparkling wines, reports the CIA and also in 2020 the sector will hold up: a decrease of 0.3% is expected compared to the 600 million euros for sparkling wine and wine consumed in the 2019 holidays. To hold, in particular, are prosecco, Trento Doc, Franciacorta and other national sparkling wines.
Finally, many are the agri-food excellence of the territory under the tree, among the most popular gift choices for almost 40% of Italians.
(HANDLE).