Puglia Party Day 17 – Embroidery of Salento
Lots of women in Salento are talented enough to make beautiful handmade lace. The pieces are produced using a traditional Salentine loom made from olive wood. The tradition of making […]
Lots of women in Salento are talented enough to make beautiful handmade lace. The pieces are produced using a traditional Salentine loom made from olive wood. The tradition of making […]
So now we get to the essential post. Olive oil. A huge 80% of Italy’s olive oil originates from the South – Puglia and Calabria the main producers. With Puglia […]
Bread may be the most important thing to Italians. It’s eaten with every meal without fail. Well, in my family it is anyway. Pugliese is similar the ciabatta, but has […]
OK… So here goes, the launch of my first regular feature, Postcards from Italy. Every month I will post a recipe that my Italian Auntie has sent to me on the […]
My mum rarely wrote any of her recipes down, much to my family’s disappointment, as well as mine. The majority of her cake recipes were quite easy to remember, but […]