Apulia Puglia, Italy meets the B&B cast for June 2012 wedding Part 2

The B&B soap is off and running at Puglia, Italy.  

(pronounced Pooh-lee-yah)

The wedding party is staying at Masseria San Domenico.  See photo above. 

Since this is a soap opera I thought maybe the hotel was fictional but it isn't!!

If you like ancient buildings and beautiful water views then Puglia is for you!!

  

  

 

Let's talk about popular food and drink in Puglia.

BREADS - Most popular - focaccia

Food & Wine magazine (one of my favs) has a nice article about dining in Puglia.  Here is the link:

http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/puglia-italys-next-great-escape

From the article: 

 Get the boutique olive oils, wines and pickles, fruit gelati and dark, slushy coffee granita. 

We sampled fig, lemon and the astounding caffè-nocciola gelato, peppers and figs, smoked mozzarella with tiny clover bouquets, topped herb pasta with a luxurious saffron sauce and doused fried lampascioni (wild hyacinth bulbs) with orange-blossom honey.

Delallo talks about Puglia

http://www.delallo.com/articles/puglia

This website and author has provided some "awesome" food photos!!

http://mymelange.net/mymelange/2012/06/food-specialties-puglia-italy.html

MORE to come!

About Tuscany 1 Holiday - May 23 - 27th, 2012 FOOD 3

Gelato Festival in Florence in Tuscany May 23-27, 2012. When you google this you get conflicting dates. 

Firenze gelato festival in Italy.  Google chrome comes with an automatic translator button.

What is gelato?  How is it different from American ice cream?

Gelato is lighter than traditional American made factory ice cream.  Gelato contains 4-8% butterfat vs 14% for ice cream in the use. Sugar content in gelato is 16-24% and ice cream is 12-16%.  It is more expensive because it is more like making home made ice cream vs factory made.

When you google this festival you get some conflicting dates.

Where did gelato come from?  Italy?  Not just Italy. Came from Rome and Egypt. Appeared in Florence and then went to France and so on ...

Walks of Italy photo above and information on gelato can be found at 

http://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/food-and-wine/what-is-gelato-italian-ice-cream

All you want to know about gelato, flavors, ingredients and more!!  

You have to visit this site:

Gelato flavors decoded

And see partway down the page for some other cool links. 

Photo from link below (24 things to know about Gelato) 

24 Things to Know About Gelato

piacere il gelato