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Food and wine are very important in our culture and we relish discount rent a car sharing it with friends is even more. There are so many interesting things to know about local habits around the table. A high percentage of folks here are fit, healthy and make sport a regular habit, although they eat lot of pasta and drink robust red negroamaro wine daily. The secrets lie in what they have been consuming since childhood, which is a genuine nutrition mostly based on vegetables, legumes, pasta (better if hand-made ) and lots of fish (more than meat). It is our common habit here to eat vegetables every day regularly and it's even better if they have been bought from a local farmer's market.
Spending discount rent a car the day together for a foodie tour and cooking class is always such a beautiful experience. I meet guests at their hotel or farmhouse and after a quick briefing on what our day is going to look like, we start the tour.
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Our foodie tour starts in one of the food markets in town where unique fresh vegetables and fruits beckon (many goods are not in their countries). Wild vegetables here for example are used to make simple and tasty recipes of the rural tradition discount rent a car like wild chicory, seasoned with spices and cheese.
Our guests stop several discount rent a car times to take pictures and shop. One New Yorker was very attracted by the pendula (hanging) tomatoes she had never seen before; these are very common in our homes, since we use them for cooking all the time and usually hang them in the kitchen or on a wall.
Next we meet Sergio, discount rent a car a nice mozzarella and scamorza (smoked mozzarella) cheese producer who shows us how to make them. He kindly explains each moment of the preparation and at the end of the demo offers a taste of delicious, fresh cheese. We shop for burrata mozzarella and ricotta fresh  cheese, which we use as the aperitivo during our cooking class.
Luca is our third visit, a popular local pastry chef who makes traditional cakes and sweet delicacies. Friends taste an iced dessert called "spumone", an Italian ice cream made with muti-colored layers (usually chocolate and nut) with a fruit or nut layer between them.
By the time we head to the farm everyone s eyes and palates are already in an ecstasy mood! We use one of the rustic kitchens for our cooking discount rent a car classes, where our friends are fascinated by the color of the stone, the presence of traditional objects used as decorative ornaments and " dulcis in fundo " the stunning kitchen where our lesson took place. It is not easy to synthesize the beauty and the light in a few words; only those who have visited can truly describe it. Ah, such a cozy and familiar atmosphere that stays in your heart forever.
The lovely Mamma Giulia waits for us in the kitchen with her flavors, semolina and kitchen utensils. We deliver our friends the popular " gift bag " with an apron inside – to take home – recipes, little gifts and foodie discount rent a car delicacies.
Guests learn to make hand made pasta ( orecchiette and sagne ncannulate ), bread and focaccia, potato croquette and fish boning – all done the salento way. The class ends with a delightful oval shaped typical local dessert called "pasticciotto", made out of shortbread discount rent a car pastry and filled with custard cream.
In the middle of our class, some other guests at the farm join us for the aperitivo . They were so hungry too and could not wait to taste the creations of our friends. Orecchiette were intended to be prepared with broccoli rabes and chilly, a specialty discount rent a car to die for.
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The triumph comes when Mamma Giulia seasons the orecchiette and serves them hot for the tasting. At that point of the day there were many other friends in the kitchen who wanted to eat and drink with us.
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