Spaghetti con Asparagi di Campo

The secret of this recipe is in the simplicity of just a few carefully selected ingredients. All along the mountains and hillsides that cross Umbria you can find small wild asparagus that is famous for its amazingly bright green colour and its intense flavour. This delicious wild vegetable, which the local people go out to pick on warm spring days when it is in season, is used to make this local speciality. Good-quality, fresh asparagus, or sprue, which are the first pickings and have thinn