Stowed inside the kitchen cabinets or in the cellar, the glass jars, or “burnie”, were an extremely familiar object in all Monferrato houses. The women in the kitchen filled them over the course of the seasons, depending on the products provided by the earth. They represented, on one hand, the result of all the work in the garden, and on the other hand a safeguard to face the colder and harsher winter months. As time went by, and with the women of the kitchen now engaged in different jobs away from the house, the “burnie” were left untouched in the cellars of more and more houses, inevitably empty. To find out about a company such as Il Mongetto means rediscovering this ancient tradition, and it also means rediscovering the old recipes of the area, punctuated by the passing of seasons.