In Costiera, several symbols representing traits of inhabitants have been created over time. You might for example come across this "Fishing fox" in Furore, there is a tenuta agricola and a path named like this. Foxes hunt for food, and so must the inhabitants of the Costiera, in the sense that enriching their diet with fish was imperative, to complement the sometimes scarce produce, elaborated in the cucina povera. During the 17th and 18th centuries, actually, before the advent of tourism and the construction of the Amalfitana road in 1840 (today's SS163), the people living here were isolated, both from Salerno and from Naples, and very poor and even had to crave for a living. They had to use the altipiani above the Costiera villages, and spread fields back into the valleys of the binnenland, to get enough space to cultivate wheat for bread and pizza.
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| Terraced lemon yards, vegetable gardens, above the San Pietro Hotel, Positano |
The terraced fields on the coast were used (and are still used!!) for growing potatoes and vegetable gardens, and later on lemon groves, while orchards, olive cultivation was "sourced out" to the hinterland, into the direction of Tramonti, or Scala, or Agerola. There is even a dish here in Costiera that really stands for this cucina povera, called "pasta al pesce fuiuto" - al pesce sfuggito, meaning that it is pasta without fish that has escaped, with no fish then as ingredients but with only a hint of the sea flavor. The sauce is thus the typical aglio, olio e peperoncino sugo (garlic, olive oil and hot peppers), enriched with a tablespoon of sea water to convey the sea flavor !!
In Furore you can walk down on the Volpe pescatrice path, from the church of Sant'Elia, where a century-old carrob tree marks the beginning, across the Mediterranean shrubs (macchia) lined with olives, carrob trees, figs, evergreen oaks, vinyards, brooms, rosemaries, pear trees ...
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