Tag: Italian Traditions
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Pizzica in the Piazza: 22nd September 2016
Come and join us for a fabulous evening at Corso Vittorio Veneto, San Michele Salentino for ‘Pizzica in the Piazza’ from 9pm onwards. Summer is drawing to an end but we’re not letting it go just yet! Let’s festeggiare insieme!!! Watch the ‘Senature’ Pizzica group perform live in the small piazza outside Corso Vittorio Veneto, vineria…
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Cultural Differences: Italian v English
Being a British expat living ‘la dolce vita’ in Italy, I see many cultural differences between the two countries, so I thought I’d share some of my observations with you! When an Italian friend says ‘arrivo‘, which means ‘I’m arriving’, what they actually mean is, they’re running late and haven’t even left the house yet!…
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Step back in time to relax and unwind: Masseria Cappella
Driving through the Valle D’Itria in Puglia, is always a pleasurable experience but this day was particularly beautiful. The bright blue sky was interspersed with fluffy white clouds, the rolling hills were scattered with old and new Trulli dwellings, and the curvy, undulating road made the journey even more enjoyable. I was en-route to an…
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Poetic, Passionate Plates of Puglian Cuisine: Masseria Il Frantoio
They say it’s not all about the food and ‘they’ may be right but at Masseria Il Frantoio, located near Ostuni, you will find passion and poetic stories, as Armando Balestrazzi (the owner), presents each plate of carefully crafted organic, Pugliese cuisine. His enthusiasm and quiet, calm demeanour, is truly captivating! Keeping with tradition and…
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Cooking Like a Local: Pugliese Style! – ‘A La Brace’
Written by guest blogger Maria Demkowicz Having cooked a traditional roast chicken, Yorkshires and trifle Sunday lunch for Italian friends I was invited for a return match the following week. With some trepidation (my Italian isn’t great and my Italian speaking partner was away) I made a lemon meringue pie and turned up at their…
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A Sneaky Peek into Puglia: January 2016
Written by Richard Watkins Belated welcome to 2016! January is a fairly quiet month, after the extravagance of Christmas and New Year, which we spent with about thirty friends, at a local restaurant, eating drinking and generally being merry! In early January, Italy celebrates Befana, to quote from Wikipedia ‘In Italian folklore, Befana is an…
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Passion for Pasta
We all know how passionate Italians are about pasta and how particular they are about which pasta shape must go with which sauce (I’m sure they’d be horrified to learn that I often just conjure up something from nothing and use whatever pasta I have to hand), so when I learnt that Pietro Ligorio and…
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Boccon di Vino: Wine, Food and Cultural Event, Carovigno 31st July – 2nd August 2015.
Food, wine, culture and music; this annual event has it all! Set in the hilltop town of Carovigno, in the main Piazza near Castle Dentice di Frasso and surrounding streets, is where you’ll find gastronomic delights and local wineries, proudly showcasing their Puglian products. Purchase a ticket and meander through the quaint windy streets, picking…
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For the love of coffee!
We all know Italians love their coffee but I was surprised to find out that we (Brits) actually drink far more coffee than our Italian Friends. In fact, generally speaking, they only drink 2, maybe 3 at most a day. The preferred coffee of choice in Puglia, is of course, the espresso. So it’s no…
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Cooking like a local: Pugliese Style! – All things Cardoncelli
This week’s seasonal dishes are based on cardoncelli mushrooms, which are a flat based mushrooms from the Puglia region. Last time I cooked with cardoncelli mushrooms, there wasn’t much left of them after I’d scrubbed all the dirt out from the tiny grooves underneath the cap of the mushroom! So this time I was a…
Puglian Pleasures 