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We are very lucky that the people who come to our classes and workshops always come with open hearts and minds, a good appetite for not only the regional cuisine of Puglia but for new experiences. We hosted our 4-day culinary workshop last week and
Artichoke season is here! Planning workshop menus to highlight one of our very favourite vegetables. ❤️
Our first class of 2024 in the Altamura cooking studio! A wonderful group from the US and the Netherlands who made us excited for this upcoming season. We are looking forward to welcoming back old friends and meeting all the new people who will be jo
Random bits of beauty from 2023. ❤️
We finished the olive harvest and have one final cooking class to close out this extraordinary season. To say we are overwhelmed by the love and support we received this year would be a huge understatement. Thank you to everyone who tied on an apron,
We are in the home stretch of our 2023 workshop season! So many wonderful people have joined us this year and we want to thank each and every one of you that supported our small venture. We had hoped to already have our dates for 2024 confirmed and p
Five beautiful days with this truly lovely group. We made semola pasta, taralli, tiella Barese, arugula pesto, ricotta gnocchi, bay laurel digestivo, giardiniera, pistachio cake, stuffed zucchini blossoms, sugo and polpette and many, many vegetable d
The season of many, many cooking classes. The season of cooking, eating and sharing. The season of new friendships. Thank you to every person who has pulled up a chair to our table in Oria and in Altamura. How lucky we are. ❤️
The first day of summer and so begins the season where the shutters are closed for much of the day to keep the house cool and the fans have been brought up from the garage and pressed into service once again. We had a class and lunch with a wonderful
Our Cooking Puglia workshop wrapped up this past week and these lovely people made it a magical five days. We did a whole lot of cooking and eating, and spent time with our friends and family in Altamura and Oria. We explored Matera and picked up som
Today in the Oria kitchen with the rain beating down outside. Perfect day to make a pot of lentil soup and stay warm by the kitchen fire. ❤️
For the last three weekends we have been teaching classes with the remarkable and inspiring @juliaostro and @megan_morton Megan and Julia invited a wonderful group of women from Australia and New Zealand to be part of a series of intimate workshops t

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