Fruit Carts in Sorrento

This weekend some of the CAS program girls and I took a trip down to southern Italy. The town of Sorrento offered cute little boutiques and fashion apparel along the small cluttered streets. One thing of the things that I noticed during our stay was the fruit trucks that had stopped on the side of the road for people to come and purchase their fresh produce. Local residents of Sorrento had bought all types of fruit such as peaches, apricots, nectarines, tomatoes, and lemons that were about the size of a football. The strong scent of each individual fruit led me to believe that the fruit had just been picked from the fields that morning. Even in the United States some of the most delicious fruit is found outside of the grocery store and on the little vendors stationed outside of local farms.

The most popular fruit among the variety are the massive lemons. The lemons are commonly used to make lemoncello. The lemon rinds, alcohol, sugar and water mixture provide a sweet taste that in produced mainly in the surrounding regions of Naples. The alcoholic beverage is inexpensive to make and can be made at home for an even stronger taste than what is offered in the stores. Restaurants in other countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom and Australia are beginning to add the choice of lemoncello on their desert menus just as it is listed here in Italy. In my house at home my dad will usually keep a bottle of lemocello in the freezer and use it for an after dinner treat. While out to dinner on the island of Sorrento the waiter would complete his serviced to our table by bringing out a tray filled with shots of the refreshing drink.