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Don’t be like everybody else heading to Polignano a Mare and Alberobello… unless you want the crowds to push you to the edges of your sanity. Instead, check out these 10 under-the-radar Puglian places; from cathedrals designed by modern and contemporary architects to a ghost town and a high-speed test track, this is where to find the eccentric side...

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The Southern Italian region of Puglia will showcase five of its emerging filmmakers in L.A. through an inaugural partnership with the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) Monthly Film Festival later this month. Under the week-long program, running from May 30 to June 2, the selected Pugliese filmmakers will screen their work within the framework of th...

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Once scarcely known outside of Puglia, now a veritable culinary celebrity, burrata soared to the top of restaurant menus around the globe after it was introduced into the LA food scene during the early 2010s. Despite its explosive international debut, a certain mystery cloaks this cheese’s origins. The story of burrata’s birth arises from Pugliese...

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The sun-kissed, coastally-endowed region of Puglia already has a lot going for it, without even mentioning the food. But we just have to mention the food… Puglia is the birthplace of some of Italy’s most famed products–burrata and taralli among them–and the rest of the culinary cannon here is guided by local produce, the abundance of available seaf...

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Beachgoing pros in Puglia understand the sea’s winds and move accordingly. Whether you’re chasing a calm day or wind-filled waves, one step outside (or a glance at the weather app) will send you either east or west: to the Adriatic or the Ionian coasts, respectively. Many Pugliese locals, however, are less divided between the two seas. Despite the...

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Rural Salento, the southernmost part of Italy’s “heel” that is Puglia, is not where one expects to eat vegan food.  Agriturismo Piccapane sits on the long, typically flat Pugliese road between Galatina and Cutrofiano, about 45 minutes southwest of Lecce. As far as the eye can see, this is deep olive oil country: rows upon rows of olive trees just b...

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In what could only be termed a stark contrast to the light, so-pale-they-are-almost-water wines that summer holidays spent basking on the Puglian coastline call for, the wines from Puglia have gained a reputation as heavy hitters, if you will–red, punchy, and fruit forward. How many of us have wandered into a supermarket looking for a good quality...

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In Puglia, there exists a face little known to the Pugliesi themselves. It’s a different essence, distinct from trulli, castles, and whitewashed walls, far from sunny and crowded beaches. I’m writing of the territories where the human imprint has not yet completely marked its territory, leaving room for forests, woods, and biodiversity. Villages wi...

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The region of Puglia is known for many things: juicy burrata, aperitivo-staple taralli, nonne rolling orrechiette in the Barese streets, white conical Trulli houses, sandy beaches, and rows upon rows of olive trees. But there’s much more to Italy’s heel (if the above info was new to you though, get reading on the rest of our Puglia Issue here). Tak...

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There’s an Italian proverb: “A chi vuole non mancano modi.” Its closest English translation is “where there’s a will, there’s a way.” An ode to the grit and determination of Italy’s people, it’s far from the passive (and clichéd) concepts of “la dolce vita” or “il dolce far niente” so praised abroad.  Yes, the country has a much better balance of w...

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