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my name is chiara, nice to meet you
DAGIÙ means from the south
if it wasn't for my amazing parents
if you're here, you must be interested in my story
Typically used by people moving away from their hometown, it literally indicates coming from the italian regions located from the center all the way down, including the islands...
but starting from september 2024, Dagiù is also a place where you can find the specialties from every region of Southern Italy and have them delivered straight to your door
as an only child who left Sicily quite young to follow her dreams, they have always made sure I could feel their love wherever I was (and now they're employed full time! ha!)
I have moved many times during my studies and changed various countries, cities, apartments, flatmates, schools, jobs, and so on.
The only thing that never changed was the paccodagiù that reached me anywhere I went.
What came into those packages was not only food. It was a way to express love and affection, the only way food can. Nothing beats opening up a jar of caponata when you’re in freezing cold Denmark and it’s pitch black outside at 4 pm, when the only thing you wish is to jump on a plane and close your eyes, to only reopen them and see Mount Etna outside the airplane window.
So I have decided to take all of this and turn it into a service, because today I don’t live abroad anymore as I’ve made choices in the past few years that have taken me back to my hometown in Sicily, but I know what it feels like to decide to move away in search for better opportunities, but I also know what it means to stay, and create those better opportunities here at home.
Dagiù wants to bring the flavors of southern Italy to everyone who’s moved away, and to do so by supporting local small producers who have decided to stay and provide such products. And my hopes are that we will create a community together, whether you are someone who’s moved away, or someone who’s a food lover, and that together we can support local communities here in the south and make it easier for people to stay, to come back even, like I did.