I looked at a publicity flyer for Fellini restaurant's Calabrian wine dinner in November 2014 and started researching Calabrian wine, then wondered what about Calabrian food? I found a sweet white wine with a citrus aroma and/or flavour mentioned, so when I saw the Wikipedia list of Calabrian foods the first one I turned to was the lemon, the engagingly named Diamonte lemon. Apparently it's named after a town named Diamonte. And the lemon is exported to israel and elsewhere to help Sephardi (Spanish origin) Jews decorate the Sukkos which is a temporary structure, like a small hut or canopy often in the grounds of synagogues or gardens in private houses, attached to the back wall of the house, decorated with hanging fruit built every year to celebrate the harvest (Sukkos or Sukkot).
This is what Wikipedia says:
The Diamante citron (Citrus medica var. vulgaris[1] or cv. diamante[2] − Italian: cedro di diamante, Hebrew: אתרוג קלבריה or גינובה) is a variety of citron named after the town of Diamante, located in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, on the south-western coast of Italy, which is its most known cultivation point. This is why this variety is sometimes called the "Calabria Esrog", the Hebrew name for the citron.
Many religious Jews call it Yanova Esrog (Genoa citron), because of a long association of the fruit with the trading port of Genoa in northern Italy, that exported it to other countries.
Calabrian Wine at Fellini, Tuesday 11 Nov, £30 ticket.
Fellini restaurant and caffe, Hatch End.
The entrance to Fellini restaurant.
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