Tag: Salento

Four weeks in Lecce and the Salento

June 11, 2016 2

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Ciao. I'm Mary Louise a technical writer, editor and technology trainer. I have many interests such as, travel, food, wine, music, reading, writing, cycling, blogging, all things Italian (especially Abruzzo), farmers markets, theatre and art. I live in Adelaide, South Australia with my husband Roo plus a couple of ginger tabby cats, Speedy and Jose Gonzalez. I am compelled to take pictures of food and write about it. Travel-wise, I am mildly obsessed with Italy but I travel to, and write about, other places as well. See my other site MLT at Large.

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Bit late for Christmas but just in season for making gelato sandwiches. #summerinaustralia #abruzzoinaustralia #ciboabruzzese

My non-Italian husband cooks ‘salsiccia e lenticchie’ for us at new year. Sausages and lentils for luck. Traditionally the sausage would be a cotechino sausage from Modena but we use a pork and fennel sausage from our local @marinomeatandfoodstore at the @adelcentralmarket. Plus a lovely Barossa Grenache 🍷 to welcome in 2020. #capodanno2020 #nye2020 #buonannonuovo #italyinaustralia

The countryside near Altavilla, a ‘frazione’ of Montorio al Vomano in #Abruzzo, is a hilly area between the Apennines and the Adriatic Sea. We think our grandmother Mezzacappa’s family came from here, although she was born closer to the Adriatic in Morro D’Oro. The graveyard in Altavilla was filled with known family names of #Mezzacappa and #Saraceni. I need to revisit and do more research.

Fiadone from a few weeks ago. These cheese-filled pastries we learned to make from @giulia.scappaticcio at @casalecenturioneabruzzo some years ago now. Never get tired of them. They are meant to be an Easter treat in #Abruzzo but here in Australia the seasons are reversed anyway so we make them when we crave them. #abruzzofood #ciboabruzzese

Fiadone in the oven now. Mmm, che profumo. #ciboabruzzese #fiadone #abruzzoincucina #abruzzoinaustralia

One of my sisters has this old framed photo of our great grandfather Antonio Pergolini born in Montepagano, Abruzzo, 1863. It’s the only known photo of him. Supposedly, he was involved in a shipwreck off the coast of France on his way back from America where he had gone on a contract of work, probably after 1912. He made it back to Abruzzo and eventually died there in 1918, having never really recovered and not wanting to get back on a ship. We have no verification of this; it’s family legend and sadly, all the people who would have known Antonio are long gone. #abruzzoheritage #montepagano #pergolini

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