22min - It’s hard to imagine Italian food without tomatoes. Writer, broadcaster and food writer Sophie Grigson adores them and goes on a journey to discover how they are grown, prepared and preserved in Puglia.
22min - Italy is a place full of contrasts and the food can either be very pale and bland, or full of chillies and red and fiery. Cook and writer and learns how to make the mildest ricotta cheese and visits Bari to experience Korean food Puglian style.
22min - Sophie visits a canteen serving regional dishes at her local petrol station – a most unlikely location. Later she cooks a hearty dish for some old friends from Oxford and at the trullo she makes a roast chicken with an unexpected but delicious addition.
22min - Sophie investigates the new ideas, new products and new twists on traditional foods that are opening nearby. There are new takeaways, a nectar that is produced from carob pods and a 24-hour vending machine that even sells prosecco!
22min - The countryside around Sophie’s home provides rich pastures for foraging. Sophie joins experts in search of summer herbs. At home, she makes a simple grain salad with basil, parsley and mint topped with shaved asparagus.
22min - Salt is crucial to good cooking – not just for flavour but also for preservation. Sophie visits the incredible salt pans and meets a farmer growing sweet onions that grow in the sand near the beach. At the trullo, she cooks salt cod with tomatoes.
22min - Sophie explores the countryside outside her town and visits previously abandoned land that is now pursuing regenerative farming. In her kitchen, she makes a jam with apricots, saffron and honey – perfect with cheese.
22min - It’s Sophie’s birthday and she celebrates with friends. It’s also festival time, so the whole town celebrates. Sophie makes delicious yeasted lemon fritters at home and cooks fish in a paper parcel at the trullo.
22min - Sophie goes to meet one of the online Puglian cooks she admires, and then tries to tempt the card playing locals into teaching her how to play Scopa. At the trullo, she barbecues a tuna burger with a new on local flavours.
22min - Sophie visits the baroque city of Lecce, and one of Italy’s most famous deserts is on the menu at the trullo – tiramisu. Sophie then ensures that her passion for Puglia will never be forgotten!
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