Ausonia Cooperativa Agricola

In Amantea, on the Tyrrhenian coast of Cosenza, Ausonia Cooperativa Agricola operates within the IGP area of Cipolla Rossa di Tropea Calabria, a denomination that extends across twenty-three municipalities overlooking the sea. The cooperative protects one of Southern Italy's most recognizable vegetables, that sweet red onion whose shape and destiny change depending on the harvest. In its cycle, the bulb transforms from the delicate spring cipollotto to the robust, storable version for preservation, two facets of the same product that explain its versatility in the kitchen, from raw consumption to long cooking. Its natural sweetness, devoid of the typical pungency of other onions, is the trait that makes it famous far beyond regional borders. By gathering producers from the area, Ausonia ensures the continuity of a crop that is emblematic of the coastal strip, where the mild climate and sandy soils create the conditions that the denomination protects and that no other area can replicate in the same way.

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