Puglia Archives

Cremolata di pesche (Peach Cremolata)

4 September 2021

Perhaps due to Italy’s hot summers, Italian cuisine, especially southern Italian cuisine, offers a dazzling variety of frozen desserts. Gelato […]

18 April 2021

Here’s a simple dish from Puglia, and more specifically from the Salento, at the very heel of the Italian boot.

16 March 2019

All over southern Italy, breadcrumbs were considered the “poor man’s cheese”. Those who couldn’t afford the luxury of the usual

16 February 2019

Southern Italian cookery, in particular the cooking of Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria, is rife with baked vegetable casseroles . They

3 November 2018

Yes, autumn is well and truly here. There’s a definitely chill in the air, the leaves are turning color, pumpkins

4 November 2017

La cucina povera, or the cuisine of the poor, has become quite fashionable in recent years. Based on ‘humble’ ingredients

24 June 2016

One of things I find fascinating about Italian cookery—cookery in generally, really—is how you can take a culinary idea and,

8 April 2016

I love second courses that pair meat and vegetable in a single dish. Not only is the combination invariably delicious,

6 March 2015

It is said that the three pillars of Puglia’s agriculture are wheat, wine and olives, and all three make their way