The oil and its use in the past
Olive oil appears in all recipes of modern cuisine, but in the past, even in Puglia, despite being the region that produces the most oil in Italy, it was not...
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Stockfish and baccalà
The cod (baccalà) I buy at the supermarket, in the trays at the refrigerated counter, is absolutely not like the one my mother used to buy at the New Market...
The "Cocchia" (bunches of tomatoes hung up)
In this picture below I am in family's vegetable garden In Apulia, this is what they call the bunches of tomatoes hung up for winter storage Today, cherry tomatoes are...
Almond Harvesting and Cleaning.
During the summer, almonds were harvested. I remember, as a child, mountains of almonds in my father's warehouse, which was adjacent to and communicated with the house where we lived...
The origins of the nickname "Spigadolce"
My great-grandfather had the nickname "Spigadolce," and in the village, he was known more by this nickname than by his surname Fortunato. My mother told me that my great-grandparents had...
The "rasaul" (the dialect name from Andria for spatula)
It is an object forged from ancient culinary wisdom. The traditional spatula for making orecchiette is only produced in the northern Bari area by blacksmiths who craft it from wrought iron....