'Cozze alla tarantina' is a typical seafood specialty from the Pugliese culinary tradition. Tempting and aromatic, its main ingredients are mussels, garlic, parsley, oil, pepper, tomatoes and white wine. Although very easy to prepare, you'll be astonished by the result! A true gourmet course that can be served as an appetiser or as a one pot dish with toasted homemade bread.

Octopus and potato salad is a typical Mediterranean recipe, very common in coastal areas, where octopus is fished and consumed a lot. Despite being very low in calories, this seafood dish won't leave you feeling hungry: its taste and consistency will pamper your taste buds and make you feel satisfied. This particular recipe can be served lukewarm in winter or cold in summer.

Cold winter days seem to be the perfect time to enjoy certain dishes: soups, creamy risottos.. full-flavoured, warming and cosy, they are the perfect - healthy - comfort food. The recipe we are presenting here is no exception! The chicory, provolone cheese, sausage and wine provide for an intense, mouth-watering taste, as well as for a divine aroma. Beside the gourmet experience, it's important to note that barley, one of the most ancient grain varieties, is known to have excellent anti-inflammatory, soothing and regulatory properties: a real cure-all, as Hippocrates already knew!

The red snapper is a saltwater fish, common in the Mediterranean Sea as well as in the Atlantic Ocean and its fine flesh is tender, lean and savoury. The pasta dish we suggest here has a delicate, smooth yet tasty flavour and makes the ideal primo for a dinner with friends or for a family meal. Children will like it too!

This is the perfect dish for a hot summer's day! A cold pasta salad with plenty of wonderful summer vegetables and bits of creamy, yummy mozzarella: the ideal choice for a dinner with friends or for any other informal occasion. It also makes a good dish for a party buffet or for an outdoor excursion or picnic.

Polenta is one of the most famous - and yummy - dishes of northern Italian culinary tradition: made up of finely ground corn, it makes a very hearty meal, an extraordinary comfort food that is particularly loved in mountain areas. It is best enjoyed in autumn/winter, when temperatures are low, but it can also be cooked during warmer seasons, you just need to avoid heavy dressings like cheese fondue or such! Try pan-frying it with garlic slices, pepper, salt and stale bread, as you would do with an omelette: the result is just amazing!

We called it 'pizza', but actually this dish is more similar to what French people call a 'quiche'.. but well, the recipe is Italian, so we allow ourselves to misuse the word this once! Try out this original and incredibly delicious dish, serve it to your friends and family or take it with you if you are going on an outing somewhere - just put it in a Tupperware container and you're good to go!

Beef tartare is a very ancient dish, probably invented by the Tatars, a nomadic group that used to store meat under their horses' saddles, which they would eat raw and softened. Nowadays this recipe consists in finely minced raw meat, adequately seasoned with spices, lemon, egg yolks and, sometimes, alcohol, in order to really make it tasty. Fresh and light, tartare is the ideal dish for summer aperitifs. Just make sure you choose high quality fresh meat and eggs!