Preserving Cherries – Summer Fruit in Winter
Remember all those delicious cherries from this summer? Ah, how can you forget. Well they are making a comeback! When the summer season is over, I am usually left with sad memories of how Italian small-scale farmers sometimes throw crates of cherries away because they just can’t sell or use them all. And how I […]
Mozzarella Tour | Agro Pontina
Want to know the difference between buffalo mozzarella & fiordilatte mozzarella? If you’ve got a spare day to spend on a drive outside of Rome, we can help you discover the “Two Mozzarellas of the Agro Pontino area”. About this edible journey: On this edible journey we’ll be taking you out of Rome to the […]
Interview with Italian Chef Sara Mercaldi
We asked Sara Mercaldi, an Italian chef specializing in regional Apulian cuisine, a few questions about her work. And she was more than happy to answer. This farm-to-table chef grows her own food, cooks it and even invents new recipes using all local ingredients. Where did you learn to cook? I learned to cook from […]
Farm-to-Table Puglia Chef Sara!
Farm-to-Table Chef Sara Out in Her Fields! 34 year old Chef Sara Mercaldi not only dishes out Apulian classics such as orecchiete con le cime di rape (orechiette pasta with bitter greens) and calamarata cozze & fiori di zucca (calamarata pasta with mussels & zucchini flowers) but she goes beyond what she’s learned from 2 […]