Taste and use

That's what makes these dried peppers from Sicily so special:

• Taste: These peppers bring the taste of summer and the south to your plate at any time of year.
• Quality features: The peppers are salted in the drying plant and then gently dried.
• Use: They are ideal for cooking in a sauce or in combination with our pulses. As the peppers are dried with salt, they should be soaked briefly in lukewarm water before use and the soaking water poured away. Here you will find a suitable recipe suggestion.

Cultivation and ecology

This is how the peppers are grown:

• Cultivation method: Organic farming.
• Producers: The peppers are grown by the Terramatta cooperative in Ragusa, which is closely linked to L'Arcolaio. L'Arcolaio offers migrants and ex-prisoners the opportunity of legal employment in food processing. This is very important in a region where many migrants arrive and are often employed in agriculture without a work contract and under very poor conditions. "Try our products and you will taste the difference!" says Wally from L'Arcolaio full of self-confidence. Wally is from Gambia and works in the processing center of the L'Arcolaio cooperative.

This is how the price is made up

The peppers are bought from the Cooperativa Terramatta for 1.90 euros per kilogram. Terramatta grows the vegetables collectively on 8 hectares of land.

Cultivation & processing CHF 6.93

• Cultivation and harvesting: Cooperativa Terramatta
• Processing: Cooperativa L'Arcolaio

Transport & logistics CHF 3.91

• Export and logistics: Cooperativa Valdibella, Galliker
• Fees: Customs
• Quality assurance: SQTS laboratory
• Packaging: Zurich plant
• Shipping: Post

Procurement & distribution CHF 3.99

• Coordination, communication, online market: Crowd Container