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Interpretive watercolor cutaway of a Tuscan metato, with chestnuts on a timber-and-cannicci drying floor above a small fire in the lower stone chamber; not a measured plan.
Built structures

Chestnut metato

A metato is a small chestnut-drying building found in parts of Italy, with a slow fire below and an open timber floor above where chestnuts dry.

Cellars, caves and ripening rooms
Gallicano
Hand-painted illustration of a thick-walled veined marble conca with its heavy lid partly covering layers of salted pork fat and herbs.
Equipment

Marble conca

A conca is a thick-walled marble basin used in Colonnata, Tuscany, to salt-cure and mature lardo. Its local white marble and close-fitting stone lid form the documented vessel for Lardo di Colonnata IGP.

Tanks and vats
Colonnata, Carrara, Tuscany
Illustration of shallow, round terracotta testelli stacked for panigacci cooking.
Equipment

Terracotta testi for panigacci (Lunigiana)

Small, shallow terracotta dishes called testi or testelli are heated over a fire and stacked with panigacci batter between them. Each hot dish bakes one side of a small bread while serving as the lid for the next.

Terracotta baking dishes
Podenzana