Style & Ingredients

Do listen to team LifeInAbruzzo’s first-ever podcast hosted by Destination Eat Drink who wanted to know everything wonderful about Abruzzo!

A story that explains the absence of saffron recipes in Abruzzesi cookbooks from the past and a look at recipes today, delicious ones to try at home with Abruzzo’s most exotic spice

If you are one of those people that races home to eat a weighty bowl of pasta before sleeping and laments why Italians can remain skinny on eating so many carbohydrates you’ve probably not heard of Abruzzo’s ‘Lo Sdijuno’!  

Agritur Panorama’s tangy recipe for soft undulating Teramana peperoncini jam is incredibly simple to make with a backhander of spicy loveliness that perfectly complements rather than overwhelms

You may have a beautifully wrapped & decorated panettone, but how do you know if you’re eating the real thing and not a poor imitation!

Put simply, truffle hunting in Abruzzo is an enchanting adventure that has you gently treading across a drop dead gorgeous central Italian landscape

Cachi is Italy’s most aesthetically beautiful Autumn fruit. Its soul-stirring shades of spotted pinks, reds & orange leaves counter setting the clocks back

Autumn in Abruzzo begins in earnest in mid-October, down on its wine-growing hills, valleys and Adriatic beaches it’s still a temperate 24C mid-October

Fresh talli d’aglio resemble a long skinny spring onion with woody multi-kneed joints no wonder I didn’t recognise them from the jars of preserved ‘Zolla’

Mmmmm sweet marjoram, I grow it on my terrace and the old ladies in the their orto but its pull is outdone by that of the scrubby wild patch of wild marjoram