Cuisine
The typical dish is rice with beans, called panissa (Maratelli rice), the tartufata (cake) and the bicciolani a type of biscuits. The typical wine is Gattinara DOCG, a classic red wine of Piedmont made principally from the nebbiolo grape (known locally as spanna) from the comune of Gattinara, where there is archaeological evidence of vines being grown in Roman times.
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