Inspiring a Longer and Healthier Life through the Mediterranean Cuisine and Lifestyle

A few days ago, I attended a very interesting dinner my Harvard Alumni Club organized in Milan. Umberto Veronesi was our dinner guest. He is the founder of the Veronesi Foundation, which carries on very important scientific research in order to fight cancer.

At the dinner he spoke about the scientific advances in genetics and their impact on hereditary diseases and predictive medicine. He told us that doctors and scientists strongly believe certain foods can be very powerful in order to prevent cancer. Still, there is not enough evidence; however, they are doing lots of research to demonstrate the importance of food.

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Burrata is a cheese traditionally made in the North of Puglia (Bari and surroundings). For burrata lovers it has always been impossible to find a cheese artisan who could make Burrata in Lecce and in the South of Puglia. In Lecce the tradition is to eat the super delicious and juicy mozzarella, known as fior di latte.

Today I went to my favorite cheese artisans with the beautiful ladies attending my cheese artisan and market tour. You cannot immagine what a wonderful surprise when we found out they were going to make burrata in front of us!

The burrata was made with the [...] Continue Reading…

The deal is that if we win the first match on June 14th, I and Marika will be making and eating rice, [...] Continue Reading…

We are so proud to announce that our Stile Mediterraneo blog has been chosen to receive a Tripbase 2011 Blog Award. This award has been given to the best 10 Italian cuisine blogs in 2011.

This year, all awards have been featured in CNBC, CBS and AOL News.

We thank all Tripbase readers for voting for us and look forward to providing lots of more interesting content about Puglia food and wine.

I and Marika are so excited to be featured in the wonderful DVD The Culinary Institute of America and Nancy Harmon Jenkins made about the Food and Wine of Puglia Italy.

Watch the video on how we make orecchiette hand made pasta with tomato sauce with our nonna.

Hope to have you in Puglia to taste such wonderful food and wines!

Watch a video of our past special tours at the villa castle. This is what to expect if you enter and win our contest! There are 20 days left. Don’t miss this opportunity.

Enter our contest to win a free 8-day cooking holiday with us in a 17th century villa castle in Puglia Italy!
This contest expires on March 8th, 2011. So hurry up!

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I and Marika interrupt our series of Mediterranean recipes and cuisine from Puglia to bring you something a bit different and very delicious.

As Marika (the Cardiologist!!) says: “the important thing is to eat everything in moderation”!

So today we decided to join our internet friends Michelle and Sara and celebrate the World Nutella Day!

And what’s better than the traditional bread with nutella that all Italians have had for breakfast at least once in their life? Therefore, we decided to prepare a very easy breakfast recipe, with a Pugliese twist: we used our home-made durum wheat bread with some Pugliese ricotta!

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I and Marika are just back from a wonderful 3-day cooking workshop held in Milan where all best Italian and International chefs got together to share the secrets behind their recipes and dishes.

Imagine yourself in the same room with Italian chefs from Massimiliano Alajmo, Carlo Cracco, Gennaro Esposito, Davide Oldani, Antonello Colonna, Niko Romito, Andrea Berton, to Elio Sironi, Davide Scabin, Ciccio Sultano and Massimo Bottura, who was recently awarded as the best chef in the world by the International Academy of Gastronomy in Paris.

The International chefs included: Inaki Aizpitarte, Paul Liebrandt, Sat Bains, Magnus Nilsson, Yoshihiro Narisawa.

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Cooking delicious dishes for our friends and family is one of the things that I and Marika love doing during the Christmas holidays.

We though of starting the New Year with a recipe that has been very successful: mandarin marmalade, with ginger, cinnamon and Veuve Cliquot champagne.

The beauty of this recipe is that we used the Veuve Cliquot champagne leftover from Christmas Eve. To tell you the truth, there was not much left over, but it was enough to make this marmalade fantastic!

INGREDIENTS
2 lb organic mandarins
1 lemon juice
1lb brown sugar
18 fl oz water
1 tsp grated ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
2tbsp Veuve Cliquot Champagne
PREPARATION
Wash the mandarins and peel [...] Continue Reading…