This Simposio is a Matera slow travel cookbook, a way to explore one of Italy’s less known gems deeply and mindfully. Discovering Matera’s traditional recipes, folk stories, incredible personalities, and ancient legends.
In the cookbook you’ll find authentic dishes accompanied by their stories, curiosities, or folklore. Each time you’ll cook, I want you to experience Matera’s truest essence!
A MATERA SLOW TRAVEL COOKBOOK
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MAREMMA: COOKING, TRAVELING, AND EXPERIENCING
Welcome to Matera, Basilicata, the city of Sassi, bread, authentic recipes, intimate relationships, traditions, and mysticism. Which are the themes that will guide our exploration and our cooking adventures.
We will repurpose stale bread – a lot. Discover local ingredients and sit around a bonfire to cook and burn stuff!
We will make pasta, give it new shapes, and season it with succulent earthy seasonings.
We will meet family-owned secular businesses and visit the lab of talented crafters.
We will also play in the streets, strike, and try to catch red pointy hats.
We will go wild with female brigands and ask witches to remove our Malocchio.
We will celebrate from January to December, even lacerating a sacred cart.
It’s going to be fun; it’s going to be intimate; it’s going to be a new, unique experience.
Get ready to sink into poverty, let culture rescue you, reemerge stronger than ever, and give life a deeper, pulsating meaning!
Benvenuti a Matera!
Claudia
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In Matera’s Simposio, you’ll find:
- 167 pages
- 80 and more pictures
- 24 authentic recipes from Matera and Basilicata
- stories and legends
- “monks”, female brigands, and spirits
- Italian culture and folklore
INDEX:
06 Welcome To Matera
08 Cooking Notes
10 Matera
16 Riti Arborei
22 A Word For Matera: Rivalsa
28 Pane Di Matera
40 Cialedda Fredda
44 Cialedda Calda
46 Orange Salad
48 Polpette Di Pane
52 Fedda Rossa
54 Matera’s Treasures
60 Aglio Olio E Peperoni Cruschi
64 Acquasale Dei Pastori
68 Honey Focaccia
72 Matera’s Pasta
74 Cavatelli
76 Scorze Di Mandorla
78 Taglioline
80 Pasta E Lenticchie
82 Pasta E Cicerchie
86 Amaro Lucano And The Pacchiana
90 Vicinato
96 Crapiata
98 Italian Street Games
100 Madonna Della Bruna
104 Inganna Mariti
106 The White Monk
110 St Eustachio
114 Patate Raganate
116 Wild Asparagus Frittata
118 Magic In Matera
122 Bbascanesche: Grape Delights
124 Matera’s Traditions
132 Agnello In Pignatta
134 Baccalaà A Ciauredda
136 Tarallo Dell’Immacolata
138 Matera’s Ragù
142 Strazzate Cookies
146 Cicirata
150 Matera’s Crafts
154 A Female Brigand
160 Lagane E Ceci
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Snuggle on the couch, pour yourself a glass of Primitivo di Matera and put on soft music – or maybe a Tarantella Lucana: your Matera adventure is about to begin!
Claudia