Mandorlificio Cugini Pendino

Alessandria della Rocca (AG)

The company

The Mandorlificio Cugini Pendino is located in Alessandria della Rocca in the district of the Sicani Mountains, in a hilly area between the valleys of the Magazzolo and Turvoli rivers surrounded by olive groves, orchards and almond trees.

The Pendino family has an experience in dry fruit processing since the early 1960s, especially in almond trade. The first to enter the trade of these products were the Brothers Peter, Angelo and Giuseppe Pendino, who animated by the passion for agriculture and the desire to export elsewhere the products of their own land, pursued business after many years in Campaigns, especially cultivated with almond trees

The terrain and hilly climate characteristic of the Alessandrina countryside are particularly suitable for the cultivation of almonds, proof of this is the great production that throughout the twentieth century has characterized the territory, making this comune of Agrigentino one of the main producers in Sicily .

Almond is a characteristic feature of the landscape, it is a strong and robust plant that represents an important resource for the land.

These delicate small fruits are a real cure for our health: they possess a high vitamin E content, which performs a recognized antioxidant action in the human body; A high in oil and polyunsaturated fatty acids; A very low acidity and a high magnesium content. Semi-precious seeds that are individually or in elaborate recipes represent an important dietary natural supplement.

Currently Pendino's company is in the middle of the second and third generations, and after years of work respecting the tradition and teachings inherited by the Fathers, the activity continues to stimulate the industrial transformation of the agricultural product as well as direct trade. This is how tradition and history become today Innovation and Industry, with the production of finished products ready to be marketed, such as the many varieties of shelled almonds and almond paste production in the new plant. The food products are characterized by taste and quality, in full compliance with the current rules and guaranteed by professionalism and years of presence in the dry fruit sector.

Almond paste is a malleable compound that lends itself in the preparation of sweets or decorations. In fact it can be used in pastry shop, to make decorations, flower-shaped patterns, animals, casette, etc. Or alone to pack typical sweets of the mignon pastry like biscuits or torroncini.