Archive Archives: Podcast

A journey made of aromas, memories and ancient Fiuman traditions. From old kitchens to homes scattered across the world, we will discover together how food is not just nourishment, but living memory and true identity. Tune in: the journey begins now!

Curated by Massimiliano Grohovaz, Rosanna Turcinovich and Adriano Scabardi

🎙️ Episode 1 – Cuisine as identity

Food as living memory and belonging. A journey that begins by exploring how cooking brings people, dialect and stories together.

🎙️ Episode 2 – The scent of tradition: the Easter Pinza

The family ritual of the pinza, a sweet with an unmistakable scent handed down by mothers and grandmothers, where every family guards its own secret.

🎙️ Episode 3 – Desserts That Tell the Story of the Seasons: Plum Dumplings

Soft and comforting: the warm heart of plums, the perfect ending to long, leisurely family lunches.

🎙️ Episode 4 – Seafood Appetisers: Savor

The ancient and ingenious tradition of Fiume (Rijeka): preserving fried oily fish in a flavourful marinade of onions, vinegar and bay leaves.

🎙️ Episode 5 – The Landize, between sweet and savory

From the reuse of stale bread to a tasty snack: slices fried in butter, enriched with spinach, chicken livers, or simply topped with powdered sugar.

🎙️ Episode 6 – The Habsburg flavors: Liptauer

A spread made from ricotta and sweet paprika, a simple and tasty preparation that each family personalized in their own way.

🎙️ Episode 7 – The “sea salami”: Stuffed Squid

A refined dish, baked in the oven and sliced, perfect for enhancing a seafood appetizer with its unmistakable stuffing.

🎙️ Episode 8 – Humble first courses: Bread gnocchi

The art of kitchen resourcefulness: a genuine classic for reusing stale bread, enriched with milk and a flavorful sauté of pancetta.

🎙️ Episode 9 – Two souls in one dish: Ricotta gnocchi

A soft dough that can transform itself: served savory with butter and sage, or in its delicious sweet version dusted with sugar.

🎙️ Episode 10 – Rural traditions on the table: Bobici soup

A thick and nourishing soup once served in taverns, made with dried beans, vegetables, and “cucuruz,” tender corn.

🎙️ Episode 11 – The perfect balance: Iota

A Habsburg-inspired classic: the slow and flavorful meeting of stewed sauerkraut with a warm cream of potatoes and borlotti beans.

🎙️ Memories of the streets of Fiume: Crackling biscuits

Rustic lard-leavened biscuits, once sold by street vendors beneath the Nautico, for a final dive into the flavors of the past.

🎙️ Episode 13 – A sweet in the cloth: Strucolo in strazza

The uniqueness of a leavened dough cooked in boiling water. The old-fashioned taste of walnuts and raisins, prepared to celebrate the feast of Saint Martin.

🎙️ Episode 14 – The heart’s dessert: Orecignazia

A soft rolled cake filled with walnuts and scented with rum. A fittingly indulgent finale to our journey, paying tribute to those who preserve these memories.

Fiume. A contested city, at the heart of 20th-century European history.

Through a simple and engaging audio narrative, we retrace the key moments: the Empire, the war, the expedition, the exodus.

A story to listen to in order to understand, remember, and never forget.

Curated by Massimiliano Grohovaz.

🎙️ Episode 1 – The medieval origins of Fiume

From the year 1000 to Habsburg rule: a city between empires, bishops, and legends.

🎙️ Episode 2 – Fiume between empires and autonomy (1500–1800)

Wars, statutes, epidemics, and economic growth: two centuries of transformation for a contested city.

🎙️ Episode 3 – Fiume between revolutions, occupations, and development (1800–1870)

From the Napoleonic Empire to the Dual Monarchy: between political instability and civic growth, Fiume seeks its place in Europe.

🎙️ Episode 4 – Fiume between progress and tensions (1869–1914)

An era of extraordinary growth in ports, industry, and culture. But in the background, rising nationalism begins to emerge, leading toward conflict.

🎙️ Episode 5 – Fiume in the Great War (1914–1919)

Between military ports, annexation proclamations, and diplomatic negotiations, Fiume becomes a crucial node in the new European order.

🎙️ Episode 6 – The Fiume Endeavor and the birth of the Free State (1919–1920)

Between myth, occupation, and constitution: D’Annunzio leads a unique revolution in Italian and Fiuman history.

Episode 7 – From the Free State to annexation: Fiume between crisis and regime (1920–1939)

Smothered autonomy, annexation to Italy, racial laws, and cultural resistance: Fiume enters the orbit of fascism.

🎙️ Episode 8 – War, chaos, and violence: Fiume 1940–1943

From Italy’s entry into the conflict to the German occupation: a territory contested between partisans, repression, and tragedy.

🎙️ Episode 9 – Fiume under bombs and the shadow of the Foibe (1943–1945)

Between Nazi occupation, deportations, the Resistance, and Yugoslav liberation: the darkest years in the city’s history.

🎙️ Episode 10 – Political repression in Fiume (1944–1947)

Arrests, denunciations, show trials, and religious persecution: the dark face of the postwar period under the Yugoslav regime.

🎙️ Episode 11 – The exodus and the erasure of Italian identity

After the Second World War, Fiume loses its Italian identity. A mass exodus, the rewriting of memory, and the difficult reintegration of the exiles into a new Italy.

🎙️ Episode 12 – Fiume, a thousand years of history (1000–1950)

In this final episode, we revisit the key historical events that shaped Fiume: from its medieval origins to the postwar exodus of Italians. A journey filled with identity, conflict, and transformation.