Category: Gastronomy and typical products

The traditional pizza What makes a true ‘Pizza Napoletana’? in the age of social media, debates spring up around any suggestions that are out of line with what is traditional and ‘proper’: we forget that, in the kitchen, tradition is...

Pasta: an Italian product The story of pasta is a typically Italian story in the fullest sense of the expression, and one which finds a place of special adhesion in Naples and Campania – but especially in the Sorrentine Peninsula,...

Wine in the Sorrento Peninsula: Gragnano wine Gragnano wine is the wine of Naples par excellence, for centuries it has been the drink which has quenched the thirst of generations of Neapolitans. In the legendary film “Miseria e Nobiltà” (1954),…

Lemons and Limoncello From limoncello to the wines of Gragnano, the typical products of Sorrento and the Sorrento Peninsula are famous the world over. People do not flock to these places just for their cuisine and food products; the quality…

Provolone del monaco: prince of the table Provolone del monaco, made solely in the Monti Lattari (aptly named by early inhabitants, as the Italian name derives from ‘lactis’, the Latin for milk), is perhaps the most characteristic and acclaimed of…