Books
Mario Desiati, Il paese delle spose infelici, Mondadori:
Apulia in the eighties, Domenico and Francesco, called Zazà and
Veleno by everyone, are two young boys who play among ravines and
trulli with a band of memorable characters with whom they will grow
up. The two come from very different families: Zazà lives in a working-
class neighborhood, Veleno is a daddy's child. Over the years they will
come across Annalisa, a girl with a very unusual life and extraordinary
beauty. Annalisa frequents the crazy people of the village, she dresses
out of fashion, she only talks with very old men and she carries
terrible rumors that the events seem to confirm dramatically with the
passage of time. Yet her unique charm seems to haunt like a curse the
two friends, to whom life has planned a series of misadventures and
sensational turns of events. A vintage Apulia for an intense and
compelling novel.
Mediterranean Diet. Journey through science, tradition and ancient flavors to discover the secret of longevity
This book contains practical advice and suggestions, as well as many recipes and interviews, collected directly in the field by the authors, with those who live the Mediterranean Diet up close, perhaps unknowingly for generations, receiving its benefits.
‘This book therefore has the enormous value of accompanying readers on a journey that starts from science and arrives at the discovery - or rather rediscovery - of the typical dishes of our Mediterranean Diet. And it does so in a very original way, entering homes and collecting testimonies, stories and recipes.’ - From the preface by Antonella Viola
Raise your hand if, at some point in your life, you have not been fooled by miraculous promises about the phantom beneficial effects of a food or the slimming powers of easy, effortless diets. This is because diets and their health effects are widely talked about, very often without any real scientific knowledge. The challenge of our times, therefore, is precisely that of untangling ourselves from seas of information that is sometimes false, misleading, incomplete or simply true but difficult to understand. Fortunately, there is a method that promises what it delivers and is, at least for us Italians, simple, affordable and sustainable. It is no coincidence that the Mediterranean Diet is among the most popular and studied diets in the world (and in fact it is among the few diets endorsed by many scientific studies, recent and otherwise). This book, written by a young couple of eminent scholars, husband and wife, reconsiders and re-proposes the Mediterranean Diet in the light of the very latest discoveries and new ‘evidence’ that places it at the top of the list of eating and lifestyle styles that bring well-being. Useful information, points of view supported by studies and research, easy and quick recipes to prepare make this book an ideal companion for anyone who wants to rediscover, with simplicity, the pleasure of good food and the awareness that, truly, ‘we are what we eat’. A medical researcher and a dietician with a background as a professional chef guide us on a journey through the Mediterranean Diet, interweaving memories and scientific evidence.
Come il Vino Ti Cambia la Vita
There is also a piece of Puglia in the stories of rebirth, courage and return to the land told by Laura Donadoni, international ambassador of Italian wines, in her book " Come il vino ti cambia la vita" (Cairo Editore).Among the six "extraordinary" producers, who have chosen with courage and determination the enogastronomic and cultural richness and beauty of the territories, the salentine Claudio Quarta, former geneticist researcher and pharmaceutical businessman, for the last fifteen years now a successful winemaker with three wineries in the " exciting South ": two are in Salento-Tenute Eméra in Lizzano and Moros in Guagnano and one, Cantina Sanpaolo, in Irpinia.
Flavors of Puglia- By Nancy Harmon Jenkins
The report of the gastronomic journey made in Puglia by the writer Nancy Harmon Jenkins in the autumn of 1995. In 262 pages it collects the best of traditional recipes of the heel of the boot.
Carlo D’Amicis, La guerra dei cafoni, minimum fax:
Summer 1975. In a village on the Salento coast, the war that opposes
wealthy children to the children of fishermen, shepherds and peasants
is renewed: the so-called peasants. To declare and feed this conflict is
the fourteen-year-old head of the lords, who is named Angelo, but
whose nickname bears the sign of the champion and wickedness:
Francisco Marinho ( a robber Brazilian footballer of the time),
otherwise known as the Evil One. Obsessed by the hatred for the
peasants, Francisco Marinho fights in the name of social order, class
division, historical continuity. But when, due to a tragicomic
misunderstanding, in his vision of the world takes over a hint of
compassion - or perhaps affection, or perhaps love - towards a young
peasant girl, the separation between good and evil begins to blur.
Around him, the symptoms of a new season: where the prestige or
misfortune of being gives way to the arrogance of having. The war of
the peasants will no longer be a clash between the ranks that reaffirm
their own nature, but a struggle of conquest, climbing, collective and
inner disorder. A metaphor, through a microcosm of indemnified
children, of the collective change that in those years transfigured our
country, the new book by Carlo D'Amicis is a chivalric poem and social
satire, a novel of formation and divertissement pulp, a tragedy of the
ancient bourgeoisie and comedy of modern Italy.
Terranima
Puglia, mild places, rituals, earth and soul: Photographic journey by Angelo Saponara and Nini Tarantino
Tiny and minor Apulias, archaic and marginal, everyday Puglie, peripherical and secondary compared to postcards, magazines and oleographs set up for tourism fairs. But it is not a Puglia in a minor or marginal tone that emerges from this book to be "seen" and "listened", but also to "taste" for its explosion of colors and atmospheres that animate our land.
La Ferocia- by Nicola Lagioia
A dynamic and intense book. Clara is magnetic. She lights up the rooms she enters or darkens them, depending on the storm that accompanies her. The last time they saw her alive, she was walking naked in the center of the Bari-Taranto state road. This is the story of two youths, a family, a city, the faults of fathers nestled in the weakness of their children, a world where money can fix everything until the precise moment in which it is already too late. In the center there is a woman's body closed in the gaze of all those who believed they could own it.
