Umbria is a generous land and full of local gastronomic delicacies, like all Italian regions.
Ham and truffles are the most famous produce of the local cuisine. The truffle, so prized today, was once a poor food, consumed by peasants and lower classes. It was the pig that found it and the peasants used to cook it under the embers or wrapped in bacon.
Another excellent produce from the Cesi area is oil. Until the last century, a dozen oil mills were to be found in this area. This produce has been known since ancient times. The mountain slopes around Cesi are rich in olive groves, with the most common quality being the "moraiolo" olive tree. Furthermore, one of the oldest and biggest olive trees in the world is in Cesi, perhaps the absolute record holder, with a circumference of 16.90 meters. Taking into account that the olive tree is a slow growing and very long-lived plant, it is thought that this tree was planted by the ancient Umbrian populations.
