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 […]
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Puglia Party Day 16 – Olive Oil
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 […]
Puglia Party Day 4 – Pugliese Bread
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 […]
Postcards from Italy
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 […]
Guesstimated Sticky Ginger Loaf
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 […]
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