Extra virgin olive oil is made by simply crushing olives and then extracting the juice. No chemicals, no industrial refining. And on top of this it contains more healthy nutrients than any other oil. No wonder our Italian Mammas look so fit and healthy! Here are a couple of tips that are close to our[...]

Taralli aficionado. Antonella, together with her young family, has been running her bake shop Magilforno in the small town of Lavello, Basilicata for years. Here, they prepare pizza, focacce, bread and taralli, with local ingredients and with a love for food. Antonella’s story is an example of passion and solidarity. Magilforno focuses on the antique[...]

Discovering lost traditions. Calls to traditions are often just fashion trends. But in Montemilone, a small village of 1,700 inhabitants in Basilicata, tradition is a lifestyle! Attilio has always worked with his father in the family’s butcher shop, called Macelleria Fornelli. In a place where most of the younger generation is emigrating for lack of[...]

It’s all about tomatoes. Every story has a beginning. The story of Tipica starts 20 years ago in Montescaglioso, Basilicata. This is where Stefano and Angela started a small tomato factory, Tipica, and proudly asked their recently graduated children, Maria and Gianni, to join them with their young spirits! Tipica is all about tomatoes. They[...]

Family roots as old as olive trees. The sun in the South of Italy is strong. It changes the faces of the farmers who have been working the fields for years. Gabriele from Lavello, Basilicata, is one of those. He and his family farm Azienda Agricola Petrarulo have been growing food for generations. Gabriele learned[...]

Tutto pasta. Pasta is one of the secrets to Italian happiness. Gianni from Vero Lucano has made it his personal objective to bring to the world his passion for traditional pasta made in Southern Italy! Vero Lucano was created by four pasta makers with the ambition to collectively share the experience and expertise of those[...]