Alistore.com is an initiative of:

Alistore s.a.s. of Abis C. and C.
Via 09047 D.Manin 126/8
09047 Selargius (CA)
Tel/Fax 070/850578?
Mobile 3349904195
P.I.03029040924 Reg. Impr. of Cagliari

Alistore... the shop of Sardinian tastes.

?"I?m transferring you to Sardinia!"

It was a career advance. Or at least that was how it was presented to me. Even if it continued to seem like the most classic of? punishments. Having left my Treviso, I landed therefore in Sardinia, ten years ago. On the ferry I had made a list of the advantages to give me courage. Good air, three hundred days of sun a year, fabulous sea. And beautiful women, I had heard. My friends had little to tease me about, amongst the fog of the north...

But it was still January. I was then accustomed to trips along the Adriatic coast, and here the women did not seem to be very easy to befriend. Effectively then air was good, and I had been welcomed by a clear, blue sky ...... So will waiting for the summer I wandered about the island: the nuraghi really exist, the sheep outnumber the people and effectively many words end with "u". However few know how extraordinarily beautiful the Sardinian countryside is. Wilder than I had ever seen before. Populated by animals that have the same name as elsewhere, but are smaller here. Small wild boar, small deer, tiny horses. Everything smaller. Also the villages. And it was here that I made my wonderful discoveries. I often saw big palm leaves sticking out of the front doors of the houses. I asked for an explanation. Conventional signs, I was told with a little suspicion, they mean here "are sold..." Wine, oil, sausage, cheese. All sorts of good things. They are the surplus of small productions for family use; sometimes timid handicraft initiatives. So it was in this way that I had my first tastes, closely scrutinized by who was offering the samples and who would have never sold me anything without seeing me totally satisfied first. Every day I took home different delicious things. Lean ham from wild pig, slabs of very strong sheep?s cheese, homemade aniseed flavoured sausages, jars of vegetables in strong olive oil, which tasted like artichokes. Who knows that dried salted mullet eggs are one of the best things that exist? Has anyone ever tried smoked tuna heart? Try these specialties and you will understand this land. Made from proud traditions, obstinate resistance to any sophistry and sincerity at all costs. In life and at the table. In this manner I learnt about the simplest gastronomic habits in the world. Of a disarming simplicity , based but on the absolute quality of the ingredients and on their absolute naturalness. "Marketing oriented" fortunately is still a swear word here. Because of this rush of? tasting and dinners I wasn?t in perfect shape for my summer appointment with the beach. As far as the women were concerned, I met the most beautiful one straight away, Carla, and I married her.

So from the deep knowledge of this land, Alistore.com was born, a shop like the one where my wife as a small girl was sent to by her mother to buy "su sartitzu", you could trust the genuineness and? the goodness of the things sold by "Su Maistu". The products sold on Alistore are the fruit of? lengthy research and a selection begun in 1998, with the acquaintance, nearly always accidental, of small producers who by choice have not given in to big distribution, maintaining family tradition in the realization of those ?products? that we at Alistore do not simply call ?products?, but works of art! As in the case of the sheep and goat ham, of? the sheep?s cheese, that according to the season, may not be available for anyone... or of that wine that leaves all the taste of its native land in your mouth .

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