What a fun day today! My sister and I got together and made fresh orecchiette pasta! Orecchiette pasta is the typical pasta course we have on a Sunday lunch in Puglia. We started making the orecchiette at 9am so that the pasta had enough time to dry before lunch In [...]
What we find really find interesting about the cuisine of our region, Puglia, is that wherever you go, you eat what´s produced in that specific place. Therefore, you can have the best seafood and fish only when you go to a town which is literally by the sea (such as Gallipoli, [...]
Puglia is becoming more and more famous around the world for the Altamura bread. This bread has been the first, in the bakery category, to receive the PDO seal (Denomination of Protected Origin) in Europe. The PDO recognition is equivalent to the DOC one for wines. Its unique taste is [...]
One of the reasons why the Mediterranean diet is so healthy is that we use little salt and cook with herbs and spices. Capers are a key ingredient and we use it in all our Mediterranean recipes
One thing that I love about the Mediterranean Diet food of Puglia is the fact that even though our recipes are very simple to prepare, the resulting dishes are extremely delicious and healthy! Tomato sauce is the recipe that best represents the simplicity of the Mediterranean Diet. We use [...]
