Snail it will be you! Discovering the Italian snail.

Do not call it "snail" (that one is without a shell) or, worse, "escargot"! In Cherasco, between the Langhe and Roero in Piedmont, the only name officially and proudly used is very Italian: chiocciola. As it should be, seasoned with a pinch of healthy local pride. Also because, here, no one is angry anymore at the French, even though there would be something to say considering that exactly 225 years ago none other than the incomparable Napoleon Bonaparte (then just 27 years old) forced King Vittorio Amedeo III of Savoy and the Austrian allies to climb this hill and sign an armistice as defeated.