Simposio’s Taranto: Taranto’s food, recipes, and stories
Let me accompany you while you discover one of Puglia’s less-known cities by browsing the pages of Taranto’s Simposio, a soulful Taranto travel guide, a Puglia cookbook, and a treasure chest filled with stories of Taranto’s old town, food, attractions, recipes, pictures, and traditions. I want you to dive into the actual Taranto, to meet the people who live – and lived – there, to taste the most authentic foods, and to mindfully and slowly take advantage of my years and years of traveling there.
A culinary and soulful Taranto travel guide
In this authentic Italian cookbook, made in Italy and fully dedicated to Taranto, the emerging destination of Puglia, you’ll prepare and savor Taranto’s food by making traditional Apulian recipes. While doing so, you’ll discover the main city attractions, the less-known places, the almost-lost traditions, and the unmissable things to do.
The best of Taranto in a unique travel cookbook
AN AUTHENTIC COOKBOOK AND A UNIQUE TRAVEL GUIDE TO TARANTO’S FOOD, RECIPES, THINGS TO DO, TO THE ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, THE OLD TOWN, AND THE LOCALS
In this authentic Italian cookbook, made in Italy and fully dedicated to Taranto, the emerging destination of Puglia, you’ll prepare and savor Taranto’s food by making authentic and traditional Apulian recipes. While doing so, you’ll discover the main city attractions, the less-known places, the almost-lost traditions, and the unmissable things to do.
What I want for you
With this cookbook/travel guide about Taranto, my aim is to give you the chance to travel mindfully, sided by culture, the only way I believe, one can truly enjoy a new place. So, get ready to explore the city, its archeological museum, the Città Vecchia (old town), the Easter processions, and other unique spots.
You will talk to locals and learn to cook traditional Apulian recipes. You will go deep inside traditions, ways of living, and states of mind.
You will hear Taranto’s myths, legends, and tales of gods, sirens, ghosts, whales, and anglers.
You will get bitten by tarantulas, dance to expel the poison, and rest, sipping a lemon granita.
You will follow poignant processions, both in Taranto’s old town and new town, and watch fireworks from a tiny fisherman’s boat.
Finally, you will cook mussels, pasta, bell peppers, fava beans, calamari, and Easter and Christmas sweets: Taranto’s unique, traditional food.
Ready for a journey through the less-known Puglia? Ready for a unique, culinary and emotional, travel guide to Taranto?
Claudia
ABOUT TARANTO, PUGLIA, ITALY
Taranto is an Ionian seaside city in the northwestern end of Salento, one of the subregions of Puglia. It is also the historic capital of Magna Graecia. Known for its magnificent Città Vecchia, the unique MARTA archeological museum, the suggestive Easter processions, its two seas, mussels, flamingos, mermaids, and music.
Although part of off-the-beaten-path Italy, there are plenty of things to do and enjoy: real people, real life, real everything! Especially in Taranto’s old town (Città Vecchia), you can witness untouched folklore, bear the glare of locals, and eat authentic traditional food.