If you ever come to Puglia and Southern Italy you will certainly notice that there are many people and women in particular who live up to 100 years and in very healthy conditions. Certainly the slow and relaxed Mediterranean lifestyle has a big influence on this: everybody goes back home for lunch, eats [...]
Given the success of our Christmas cooking classes and tour in Matera last week, we are pleased to announce another SPECIAL tour in Matera on April 17-21, 2012. This will be another occasion to discover the wonderful Italian cuisine from Matera and this beautiful place. Matera is a Unesco heritage town [...]
One of the reasons why the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest cuisines in the world is that we use very little salt and cook with lots of herbs and spices, from oregano to basil, parsley, thyme, rosemary, garlic, fennel and chilly pepper.
In Puglia we don't define ourselves as vegetarian people, but we certainly eat lots of vegetables, legumes and dishes. Puglia cuisine and food is rich of dishes that would be perfect for vegetarians. Puglia cuisine is about simple, healthy and balanced eating. This may be due to the fact that in [...]
A few days ago, I attended a very interesting dinner my Harvard Alumni Club organized in Milan. Umberto Veronesi was our dinner guest. He is the founder of the Veronesi Foundation, which carries on very important scientific research in order to fight cancer. At the dinner he spoke about the scientific advances in genetics and [...]
