Gourmet Puglia - Puglia
Spend three days eating your way around Puglia. With delicious cuisine at every turn, you’ll learn Italy’s best-kept culinary secrets from local chefs and cook signature dishes from recipes handed down over generations. In between burrata, fresh seafood and some of the most delicious pasta dishes you may ever taste, sip on robust wine courtesy of sun-drenched vines. The backdrop of rolling plains and whitewashed towns doesn’t hurt either VISIT LECCE Lecce cookery lesson Begin your culinary affair with a cooking class in the romantic city of Lecce. Accompanied by a culinary connoisseur, start with an espresso at a local café before shopping for seasonal ingredients from market vendors. Your cooking class is based in a historic building in the centre of town where you’ll learn how to whip up dishes like handmade orecchiette with mussels and delicate courgette flowers. Then feast family-style with a medley of south Italy’s finest wines. EXPLORE FASANO Boutique wine tasting Spend the afternoon uncovering some of Puglia’s charming boutique wines. Duck into several bars to taste tipple from Salento known for its year-round sun, mineral-rich soils and consistent sea breeze. Its most important wines feature the rustic-tasting negroamaro and robust primitivo grape. Linger over these regional specialities with a plate of antipasti. LECCE COOKING Apulian culinary masterclass Enjoy a languid dining experience among the lemon-scented gardens of an upscale hotel where you’ll learn how to cook Apulian delicacies using fresh local produce. Ingredients may include sun-ripened tomatoes from Torre Guaceto, straciatelle from Andria and fish straight from the morning catch. You’ll whip up dishes like home-baked focaccia, lip-smacking seafood spaghetti and moreish grissini. Round it off with biscotti. Holiday Name : Gourmet PugliaReference : A&K
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