Be sure to read: Part 1 of Inside a Pugliese Forno (Breadmaker) In part one, we looked at preparing the dough for the rising and baking. Now our oven is ready for the all the dough we prepared. I love this picture – it could be the inside of Any Forno, Italy. The baskets of [...]

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Be sure to read Part 2: Inside a Pugliese Forno (Breadmaker): Into the Oven! “Oooo, I’d like to go in there.” When my friends and family here hear this, they know that I am immediately making plans to infiltrate whatever I’m talking about. What I really mean is, I want to approach complete strangers, follow [...]

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Update: We really didn’t plan this…Shelley from At Home in Rome is talking about Sicilian-Swiss pastries (and frutta martorana) today on her blog, too! After I stopped salivating over the Setteveli cake at the Pasticceria Cappello, I noticed that they indeed sold other things in the pasticceria other than the setteveli. Many, many, salivation-worthy creations. [...]

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When I saw that my visit in Puglia coincided with the Sagra della Bruschetta e Nodino – Festival of the Bruschetta and (mozzarella) Knot, I was ecstatic. I consider these little “knots” to be one of my top ten favorite foods in Italy. Something that must be sampled and savoured here, because the freshness and [...]

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One of my favorite experiences during vacation was going to the beach at Mattinatella, in the Parco Nazionale del Gargano in Puglia, Italy. Other than the beautiful beach, the water was great and though I sometimes miss the waves of a raging ocean, it’s nice to float and swim for hours as if I was [...]

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