Cook Like A Local Corsica

High mountains, fertile valleys and rich waters have gifted this Mediterranean island a robust and earthy gastronomic culture. Culinary highlights include local charcuterie, simply cooked fish and ricotta-like ewe’s cheeses.

- Nicolas Stromboni

Corsica possesses a gastronomic heritage as rich as that of mainland France but with a heavy Italian influence, largely thanks to its closest neighbour, Sardinia. Made up of mountains, a plain and a succession of partitioned valleys, half a century ago Corsica was largely an agricultural society. Islanders talked about it in terms of valleys, or communes – closed, almost self-sufficient spaces that owed their autonomy to the island’s distinctive topography. Today, however, Corsica is just as modern as any oth